The Senate Health, 91ÖÆƬ³§ÊÓƵ, Labor, and Pensions Committee last week approved 11 members to serve on a long-awaited advisory board on educational research. The nominations are expected to face easy confirmation in the full Senate.
The new National Board for 91ÖÆƬ³§ÊÓƵ Sciences was created two years ago. President Bush announced his first 13 nominees to the board nine months ago.
The 11 approved by the Senate panel last week are: Jonathan Baron, the executive director of the Coalition for Evidence-Based Research; Elizabeth Ann Bryan, a former adviser to Secretary of 91ÖÆƬ³§ÊÓƵ Rod Paige; James R. Davis, the superintendent of the Hattiesburg, Miss., public schools; F. Philip Handy, the chairman of the Florida state board of education; Eric A. Hanushek, a Stanford University professor; and Caroline M. Hoxby, a Harvard University professor.
Also approved were: Roberto Ibarra Lopez, the head of a Houston charter school; Richard J. Milgram, a Stanford professor; Sally E. Shaywitz, a Yale University professor; Joseph K. Torgesen, a Florida State University professor; and Herbert J. Walberg, a professor emeritus at the University of Chicago.
Two nominees were previously approved by the committee, and the president has announced his choices for the remaining two seats on the board: Craig T. Ramey, a co-director of the Georgetown University Center on Health and 91ÖÆƬ³§ÊÓƵ, and Carole D’Amico, a former assistant secretary for vocational and adult education.