RICHARD F. ELMORE (Chair),

Graduate School of Education, Harvard University

EVA L. BAKER,

Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards and Student Testing, University of California, Los Angeles

RUBEN A. CARRIEDO,

San Diego City Schools

URSULA CASANOVA,

College of Education, Arizona State University

ROBERTA J. FLEXER,

Department of Education, University of Colorado at Boulder

ELLEN C. GUINEY,

Boston Plan for Excellence in Public Schools

KATI P. HAYCOCK,

The Education Trust, Washington, D.C.

JOSEPH F. JOHNSON, JR.,

Collaborative for School Improvement, Charles A. Dana Center, University of Texas at Austin

SHARON LYNN KAGAN,

Child Study Center, Yale University

FAYNEESE MILLER,

Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, Brown University

JESSIE MONTANO,

Minnesota Department of Children, Families and Learning, St. Paul

P. DAVID PEARSON,

College of Education, Michigan State University, East Lansing

STEPHEN W. RAUDENBUSH,

School of Education, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

LAUREN B. RESNICK,

Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh

WARREN SIMMONS,

Annenberg Institute for School Reform, Brown University

CHARLENE G. TUCKER,

Connecticut Department of Education, Hartford

ROBERT ROTHMAN, Study Director

DOROTHY MAJEWSKI, Project Assistant