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Dr. Rebecca Maynard to serve as new NCEE Commissioner
For those who think the Duncan tenure offers anything better than what preceded it.
NOTE: IES is the research arm of the U.S. Department of Education. John Easton comes to IES from Chicago, where most recently he was executive director of the Consortium on Chicago School Research at the University of Chicago. He had a long association with the Chicago Public Schools (CPS), serving in several research capacities, including as the director of the Department of Research, Analysis, and Assessment. He is co-author of Charting Chicago School Reform: Democratic Localism As A Lever For Change (1999) and Organizing Schools for Improvement: Lessons from Chicago (2010). On his Bio at IES, Easton says the first book was published in 2009 and doesn't mention the second title.
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. . . Rebecca Maynard, a professor of education and social policy at the University of Pennsylvania, is the project director and principal investigator for a study of abstinence-only programs commissioned by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The results won't be out until 2006, but when asked if there's any evidence that abstinence-only programs work, Maynard says, "There's not much evidence that they do or that they don't." Still, Maynard says that she hasn't come across any scientifically inaccurate information in the curricula she's evaluated (though she notes that she's not a medical scientist). . . .
Press Release
IES Director John Easton has announced the appointment of Rebecca Maynard, a distinguished scholar at the University of Pennsylvania and a national leader in education and social policy research, as the new Commissioner of the National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance effective June 14.
"Dr. Maynard is an exceptional evaluator and researcher. She is among the very strongest specialists in this field, and she shares our belief that education research and evaluation should be useful and relevant and should help improve education policy and practice," Easton said.
Dr. Maynard served as University Trustee Chair Professor of Education and Social Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. For the past five years she has directed the University's Predoctoral Training Program in Education Sciences, an IES-funded program that supports 26 Ph.D. students annually from Arts and Sciences, Business, and Education. She helped develop the What Works Clearinghouse, and her work was instrumental in the creation of the Campbell Collaboration, an international association of public policy professionals who work to solve societal problems through scientific research and analysis.
As Commissioner, she will oversee NCEE, one of four centers in the Institute of Education Sciences. NCEE helps educators and policy makers make informed decisions about education programs through the work of its two divisions: Evaluation, which conducts large-scale evaluations of federally funded education programs and practices, including the education programs included in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act ; and Knowledge Utilization, which supports the synthesis and the widespread dissemination of research through the What Works Clearinghouse, 10 Regional Educational Laboratories and the ERIC library.
"Improving the nation's education system depends critically on the work of NCEE," Dr. Maynard said. "One of my key goals as Commissioner is to more effectively translate our scientific knowledge into products that are accessible and useful that education leaders can use to make better decisions and ultimately improve student outcomes."
A native of Maine, Dr. Maynard has published numerous academic pieces over the course of her career, including a recent update of her edited volume, Kids Having Kids: The Economic Costs and Social Consequences of Teen Pregnancy. Before joining the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, she spent 18 years at Mathematica Policy Research Inc., where she served as senior vice president. Dr. Maynard earned her B.A. in economics from the University of Connecticut and her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin.
— Press Release
The National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance
2010-06-
http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/aboutus
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