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Appendix G: Biographical Sketches of the Panel
Pages 211-216

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... . He received the 2019 Yidan Prize for Education Research for his work in education.
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... He is one of the founders of the Coalition of Black Education Deans and is a part of the AERA: Senior Scholars on Advancing Research and Professional Development Related to Black Education. He received his BA in sociology from Greenville University, his master's in early childhood special education and multicultural families, and his PhD in educational leadership, both from the University of Colorado Denver.
From page 213...
... He co-authored Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth, which received the Gustavus Meyers Award, and has authored three other books, including Tracking Inequality: Stratification and Mobility in American High Schools, which received the Willard Waller award as the best book in the sociology of education. His work has appeared in multiple journals, including Social Forces, Sociology of Education, S­ociological Methodology, American Journal of Sociology, and others, and he has served on two National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine panels, which produced Minority Students in Special and Gifted Education and Measuring Racial Discrimination.
From page 214...
... His research investi­gates issues related to retirement policy, K–12 education, and economic development, and has been published in popular media outlets and scholarly journals. McGee is a former executive vice president at the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, chairman of the Texas State Pension Review Board, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, director at the education nonprofit EdBuild, and member of the Tax Policy Center's Leadership Council.
From page 215...
... Bush and Obama administrations, she was a deputy associate director overseeing budget, policy, legislation, regulations, and management issues for the Departments of Education and Labor, the Social Security Administration, the Corporation for National and Community Services, and major human services programs including Head Start, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, child welfare, and food and nutrition assistance. In this role, she helped both republican and democratic administrations strengthen their focus on using data, evidence, and evaluation to improve program results.
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... Previous work has focused on the measurement of states' high school completion rates; the consequences of state high school exit examinations for educational and labor market outcomes; and the magnitude of "panel conditioning" (or time in survey) effects in (educational and other)


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