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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Workshop Speakers
Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Workshop Speakers
Pages 40-48
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Linda Chinnia is an educator with the Baltimore City Public School System. During a 32-year career, she has served as an early childhood teacher, a senior teacher, a curriculum specialist, an assistant principal, a principal, and the director of elementary school improvement.
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She was a member of the Institute of Medicines' Committee on Reimbursement of Routine Patient Care Costs for Medicare Patients Enrolled in Clinical Trials, the Committee on Defense Womens' Health Research, and the Committee to Review the Department of Defense's Breast Cancer Research Program.
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Robert E Floden is a professor of teacher education, measurement and quantitative methods, and educational policy and is the director of the Institute for Research on Teaching and Learning at Michigan State University.
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She has written and lectured widely on issues related to the education of diverse populations, especially in the areas of academic tracking, the power of teacher expectations, and the role of mathematics as a critical factor in opening pathways to success for minority and poor students. She served for eight years as executive director of EQUITY 2000 at the College Board, where she led one of the largest and most successful education reform programs in the country.
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His current research focuses on cognitive development, scientific reasoning, and cognitively based instructional interventions in early science education. His earlier work addressed cognitive processes in such diverse areas as voting behavior, college admissions, consumer choice, peer review, and problem solving.
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He has received awards for his work on randomized trials and on privacy of individuals and confidentiality in social research from the American Evaluation Association (Myrdal Award) , American Educational Research Association (Research Review Award)
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Her biographical sketch appears earlier. Donna Durno is the executive director of the Allegheny Intermediate Unit, a service agency that provides resources, instruction and education services for schools, families, and communities through collaborative partnerships with local school districts, institutions of higher education, government agencies, and foundations.
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David Myers is a vice president and the director of human services research in Mathematica Policy Researchs' Washington, DC office. He has directed three large random assignment studies in education: the National Evaluation of Upward Bound, the Evaluation of the New York City School Choice Scholarship Program, and an evaluation of remedial reading programs for elementary school students -- the Power4Kids Initiative.
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He has a Ph.D. in educational psychology from Stanford University (1971)
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