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Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 1995. Improving the Performance of America's Schools. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9250.
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Improving the Performance of America's Schools

Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy

National Research Council

NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS
Washington, D.C.
1995

Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 1995. Improving the Performance of America's Schools. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9250.
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NOTICE: The conference from which the papers in this publication were drawn was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members come from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. The members of the board responsible for the project were chosen for their special competences and with regard for appropriate balance.

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This publication was supported by the Kellogg Endowment of the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine and by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

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Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 1995. Improving the Performance of America's Schools. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9250.
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BOARD ON SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND ECONOMIC POLICY

A. Michael Spence Chairman
Dean,

Graduate School of Business Stanford University

John A. Armstrong

Amherst, Massachusetts

James F. Gibbons Dean,

School of Engineering Stanford University

George N. Hatsopoulos President and CEO

Thermo Electron Corporation

Karen N. Horn Chairman and CEO

Bank One Cleveland

Dale Jorgenson Frederic Eaton Abbe Professor of Economics

Harvard University

Ralph Landau Consulting Professor Economics

Stanford University

James T. Lynn Advisor

Lazard Freres

Burton J. McMurtry General Partner

Technology Venture Investors

Ruben Mettler Chairman and CEO (retired)

TRW, Inc.

Mark B. Myers Senior Vice President

Xerox Corporation

Donald E. Peterson Chairman and CEO (retired)

Ford Motor Company

James M. Poterba Professor of Economics

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

George M. Whitesides Professor of Chemistry

Harvard University

Staff

Stephen A. Merrill Executive Director

Charles W. Wessner Program Director

Lena L. Steele Administrative Assistant

George Georgountzos Program Assistant

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The purpose of this publication is to sharpen the debate on education by presenting two contrasting statements on school reform—one by Eric Hanushek, summarizing conclusions of a group of economists on the need to revise incentives to improve public school outcomes, the other by Under Secretary of Education Marshall Smith and colleagues at the U.S. Department of Education, presenting the case for standards-based school reform. Neither of these statements represents positions considered and endorsed by the STEP Board or the National Research Council.

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