Panel Sets Federal Priorities for Research

List Will Guide Officials on Which Education Studies to Support

A national advisory board signed off last week on broad guidelines to help the Department of Education decide what kinds of new studies and other research projects it should commission.

The new priorities will apply specifically to the Institute of Education Sciences, which is the department’s primary research arm. The institute is overseeing an estimated $575 million in projects, but only some of those efforts are funded at the discretion of institute staff members.

“This provides a public statement for staff inside the agency and for those outside the agency on the work that IES is going to focus on as a research agency,” said Robert C. Granger, the chairman of the 14-member National Board of Education Sciences and the president of the William T. Grant Foundation,...

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