Secretary Spellings Announces National Mathematics Advisory Panel Members

Looks like they are doing to math what they did to reading. It is my bet that some of the people on this panel stand to make a lot of money from this report. It worked once didn't it? Why not again? Remember these names:

The National Mathematics Advisory Panel will be chaired by Dr. Larry Faulkner, president of the Houston Endowment and President Emeritus of the University of Texas at Austin.

Other panelists:

• Dr. Deborah Ball, Dean, School of Education and Collegiate Professor, University of Michigan
• Dr. Camilla Benbow, Dean of Education and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, Peabody College
• Dr. A. Wade Boykin, Professor and Director of the Developmental Psychology Graduate Program in the Department of Psychology, Howard University
• Dr. Francis "Skip" Fennell, Professor of Education, McDaniel College (Md.); President, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
• Dr. David Geary, Curators' Professor, Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri at Columbia
• Dr. Russell Gersten, Executive Director, Instructional Research Group; Professor Emeritus, College for Education, University of Oregon
• Nancy Ichinaga, former Principal, Bennett-Kew Elementary School, Inglewood, Calif.
• Dr. Tom Loveless, Director, Brown Center on Education Policy and Senior Fellow in Governance Studies, The Brookings Institution
• Dr. Liping Ma, Senior Scholar for the Advancement of Teaching, Carnegie Foundation
• Dr. Valerie Reyna, Professor of Human Development and Professor of Psychology, Cornell University
• Dr. Wilfried Schmid, Professor of Mathematics, Harvard University
• Dr. Robert Siegler, Teresa Heinz Professor of Cognitive Psychology, Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University
• Dr. Jim Simons, President of Renaissance Technologies Corporation; former Chairman of the Mathematics Department, State University of New York at Stony Brook
• Dr. Sandra Stotsky, Independent researcher and consultant in education; former Senior Associate Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Education
• Vern Williams, Math Teacher, Longfellow Middle School, Fairfax, Va.
• Dr. Hung-Hsi Wu, Professor of Mathematics, University of California at Berkeley

Ex-officio members:

• Dan Berch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health
• Diane Jones, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
• Tom Luce, Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Education
• Kathie Olsen, Deputy Director, National Science Foundation
• Raymond Simon, Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Education
• Grover (Russ) Whitehurst, Director, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education

This time we are watching. Not that it will make a difference, necessarily. (Also check Jim Horn's Schools Matter for more info on the make up og this panel.)
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