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The Federal Definition of "Independent Review Panel"

Hoover senior fellows Eric Hanushek and Paul Peterson, both members of the Hoover Institution's Koret Task Force on K–12 Education, have been appointed to an independent review panel for the National Assessment of Title I as part of President George W. Bush's No Child Left Behind Act.
Grover "Russ" Whitehurst, director of the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences, announced the appointment of Hanushek and Peterson to the panel on January 30.

The panel is composed of 17 members representing researchers, practitioners, parents, local school board members, and others who would contribute to the overall quality and rigor of the evaluation.

The panel will advise Whitehurst on methodological and other issues that arise in carrying out the mandated evaluation of Title I. The panel's first meeting was held on January 30–31 in Washington, DC.

Title I is the major federal education program for improving the academic achievement of disadvantaged students. The No Child Left Behind Act requires a national assessment of Title I to evaluate the implementation and impact of Title I programs and provisions.

"Because of the new requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act, there are many new provisions to Title I expenditures," said Hanushek. "This research is designed to evaluate these provisions."

Hanushek is the Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution as well as a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is a leading expert on educational policy, specializing in the economics and finance of schools. His books include Improving America's Schools, Making Schools Work, Educational Performance of the Poor, and Education and Race.

Peterson is editor in chief of the Hoover Institution's Education Next: A Journal of Opinion and Research. He is the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government and the director of the Program on Education, Policy and Governance at Harvard University. He is currently evaluating the effectiveness of school voucher plans around the country.

Peterson is editor of Our Schools and Our Future . . . Are We Still at Risk? (Hoover Institution Press, 2003). He is coeditor of Earning and Learning: How Schools Matter, Learning from School Choice, The New Direction in American Politics, and Can the Government Govern?

The Koret Task Force on K–12 Education, a joint endeavor of the Hoover Institution and the Koret Foundation, is a team of scholars specializing in education reform who have been brought together by Hoover director John Raisian and Hoover overseer Tad Taube, president of the Koret Foundation, to address the national debate over public education

— Hoover Institution
Hoover Fellows Appointed to National Education Panel
Hoover Institution Newsletter
Feb. 19, 2003
http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/pubaffairs/newsletter/03022/panel.html

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