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Appendix D: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
Pages 79-82

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... , research associate at the National Bureau of Economic 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.
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... 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.
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... Schneider is the senior program director of science, technology, 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.
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... 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.
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