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Appendix D
Biographical Sketches of
Committee Members
Adam Gamoran (Chair) is the John D. MacArthur professor of sociology
and educational policy studies and the director of the Wisconsin Cen -
ter for Education Research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His
research focuses on inequality in education and school reform. Two of
his current studies are large-scale randomized trials, one on the impact
of professional development to improve teaching and learning in elemen-
tary and one on the impact of a parent involvement program to pro-
mote family-school social capital and student success. He also directs an
interdisciplinary training program that prepares social science doctoral
students to conduct rigorous research on issues of education policy and
practice. He is a member of the National Academy of Education, and he
currently chairs the congressionally mandated Independent Advisory
Panel of the National Assessment of Career and Technical Education for
the U.S. Department of Education. He holds a Ph.D. in education from
the University of Chicago.
Julian Betts is professor of economics at the University of California,
San Diego (UCSD), research associate at the National Bureau of Eco-
nomic Research, and an adjunct fellow at the Public Policy Institute of
California. His research focuses on the economic analysis of education,
and he has written extensively on the link between student outcomes
and measures of public school spending, including class size, teachers’
salaries, and teachers’ level of education. His current research includes
studies of school choice, San Diego’s controversial Blueprint for Student
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Success, and California’s High School Exit Examination. He also serves on
the board of directors of the Preuss School at UCSD, a charter school that
admits disadvantaged students from the local area, and on the technical
review panel for the longitudinal study of No Child Left Behind. He holds
a B.A. in chemistry from McGill University, an M.S. in economics from
Oxford University in England, and a Ph.D. in economics from Queen’s
University in Ontario, Canada.
Jerry P. Gollub is a professor in the natural sciences and a professor of
physics at Haverford College, and he is affiliated with the University of
Pennsylvania. He has been provost of Haverford College and chair of its
Educational Policy Committee. His research is concerned with nonlinear
phenomena and fluid dynamics, and he teaches science courses designed
for broad audiences on such topics as fluids in nature, predictability in
science, and energy options and science policy. He served as chair of the
Division of Fluid Dynamics of the American Physical Society and as a
member of its executive board, and he is a recipient of the society’s fluid
dynamics prize and its award for research in undergraduate institutions.
He recently served as Leverhulme visiting professor at the University of
Cambridge and overseas fellow of Churchill College. He is a member of
the National Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences, and he has served on the board of the National Science
Resources Center. He received a Ph.D. in experimental condensed matter
physics from Harvard University.
Glenn “Max” McGee is president of the Illinois Mathematics and Sci-
ence Academy (IMSA). Prior to becoming IMSA’s president, he served
as superintendent of the Wilmette School District 39 in Wilmette, Illinois.
He also previously served as senior research associate at Northern Illi-
nois University Center for Governmental Studies,as state superintendent
of education in Illinois and as a principal and teacher in several juris -
dictions. His research looked at high-achieving, high-poverty schools
that have closed the achievement gap. He is a past chair and current
member of the board of the Golden Apple Foundation, and he serves
on the board of the Illinois Association of Gifted Children and the Great
Books Foundation. He is a member of the Governor’s P-20 Council, the
Diversifying Higher Education Faculty in Illinois Board, and the Museum
of Science and Industry’s advisory council. He holds an M.A. and a Ph.D.
in educational administration from the University of Chicago.
Milbrey W. McLaughlin is David Jacks professor of education and public
policy at Stanford University, director of the John W. Gardner Center for
Youth and Their Communities, and codirector of the Center for Research
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on the Context of Teaching. Her research combines studies of K-12 U.S.
education policy and work on the broad question of community-school
collaboration to support youth development. Her research on public edu-
cation focuses on how school teaching is shaped by context issues, such
as organizational policy, and the social-cultural conditions of the schools,
districts and communities. She is involved with local efforts to engage
schools, community organizations and agencies, parents, and faith-based
institutions in developing new strategies for promoting youth develop -
ment. She holds an Ed.M. and a Ph.D. in education and social policy from
Harvard University.
Barbara M. Means is codirector of the Center for Technology in Learn-
ing at SRI International. She directs SRI’s study of science learning in
California after-school programs and a national study of how schools are
using student data to inform instructional decision making. Her research
focuses on ways to foster students’ learning of advanced skills through
the introduction of technology-supported innovations, and she led the
recently completed comprehensive meta-analysis of research on the effec-
tiveness of online learning for the U.S. Department of Education. Other
recent work includes a synthesis of cognitive, curriculum, and interven-
tion research on secondary mathematics learning and an examination of
high schools with a science, technology, engineering, mathematics focus.
She holds an A.B. in psychology from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in
educational psychology from the University of California, Berkeley.
Steven A. Schneider is the senior program director of science, technol-
ogy, engineering, and mathematics at WestEd. He has been the principal
investigator of major initiatives on a wide ranage of topics, including
cognition and mathematics instruction, assessments and evaluation of
student learning, technology and engineering literacy, and an evaluation
of California’s Statewide Mathematics Implementation Study, He has
more than 35 years of experience in science, mathematics, and technol -
ogy education, including K-12 preservice teacher education, high school
science teaching in biology, physics, and oceanography, and professional
development. He holds a degree in biology from the University of Cali -
fornia, Berkeley, a 6-12 science teaching credential from California State
University, San Jose, and a Ph.D. from Stanford University in the design
and evaluation of educational programs with an emphasis in science,
mathematics, and technology education.
Jerry D. Valadez is director of the Central Valley Science Project at Cali-
fornia State University, Fresno. He has 30 years of experience in educa-
tion as an assistant superintendent, school site administrator, supervisor,
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curriculum coordinator, program director, instructor and science teacher,
and has carried out research pertaining to the preparation of science and
mathematics teachers, professional development, teacher quality, student
support, English learners, and systemic reform in science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics education. He served as president of the
National Science Education Leadership Association and on numerous
committees and task forces for the National Science Teachers Association.
He has also served as special advisor to South Korea with the American
Association for the Advancement of Science in developing the first joint
international high school summer science academy. He holds an M.A.
in educational administration and evaluation from California State Uni -
versity, Fresno, and an Ed.D. in educational leadership from University
California, Davis, and California State University, Fresno.
