Memo: Update/National Academy of Science of School Reform and Students with Disabilities

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Memo: Update/National Academy of Science of School Reform and Students with Disabilities

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Memorandum with updates regarding GOALS 2000 and the inclusion of students with disabilities. Includes a list of members of the Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education Division on Education, Labor, and Human Performance Board on Testing and Assessment. Also includes news release from Senator Dole about the GOALS 2000 bill.

Date (Dublin Core)

1995-05-14

Date Created (Dublin Core)

1995-05-14

Congress (Dublin Core)

104th (1995-1997)

Topics (Dublin Core)

See all items with this value Children with disabilities

See all items with this value Students

See all items with this value Learning disabilities

Policy Area (Curation)

Education

Creator (Dublin Core)

Vachon, Alexander

Record Type (Dublin Core)

memorandum

Names (Dublin Core)

See all items with this value United States. Goals 2000: Educate America Act

Location representation (Dublin Core)

Kansas (state)

New York (state)

Maryland (state)

New Jersey (state)

California (state)

Utah (state)

Tennessee (state)

Wisconsin (state)

District of Columbia (national district)

Michigan (state)

Georgia (state)

Florida (state)

Massachusetts (state)

Boston (inhabited place)

Iowa (state)

Minnesota (state)

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Language (Dublin Core)

eng

Collection Finding Aid (Dublin Core)

https://dolearchivecollections.ku.edu/?p=collections/findingaid&id=54&q=

Physical Location (Dublin Core)

Collection 021, Box 3, Folder 7

Institution (Dublin Core)

Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

Archival Collection (Dublin Core)

Alec Vachon Papers, 1969-2006

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(page 1)

MEMORANDUM TO SENATOR DOLE

DA: May 14, 1995
FR: Alec Vachon
RE: UPDATE/NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE STUDY OF SCHOOL REFORM AND STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES

As you may recall, last year you had included in GOALS 2000 legislation a provision for a study by the National Academy of Sciences on the impact of schools reform and students with disabilities (PRESS RELEASE ATTACHED).

At the heart of GOALS 2000 is more testing and standards--which sometimes presents unique problems for students with disabilities (particularly learning disabilities--who are about 50% of special ed students). (It turns out this concern was farsighted--a recent study in New York found that some students who scored poorly on achievement tests were being labeled "special ed" so that their test scores would not bring down their school's performance. The schools looked better--at the expense of these students.)

Since the Fall, I have worked with (i.e., prodded) the Education Department to implement the study ... and on Friday the panel that will conduct the study met for the first time -- a distinguished panel of 18 educators and others--including Ann Turnbull from the University of Kansas (list attached). I visited with the panel on Friday briefly.

The panel is supposed to issue a preliminary report in 12 months, and a final report within 24 months.

(handwritten) Dan; Daniel; Sheila

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Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education Division on Education, Labor, and Human Performance Board on Testing Assessment
GOALS 2000 AND THE INCLUSION OF STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES

Margaret J. McLaughlin (Co-Chair)
Institute for the Study of Exceptional Children
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
Ofc: 301/405-6495
Fax: 301/314- 9158
E-mail: mm48@umail.umd.edu
Home: 301/571-9563

Lorraine M. McDonnell (Co-Chair)
Department of Political Science
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Ofc: 805/893-7128
Fax: 805/893-3309
E-mail: mcdonnel@alishaw.ucsb.edu

Ansley Bacon
Westchester Institute for Human Development
Westchester County Medical Center
Valhalla, New York 10595-1689
Ofc: 914/285-8204
Fax: 914/285-1973

Stephen N. Elliott
Department of Educational Psychology
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI 53706
Ofc: 608/262-8841
Fax: 608/265-4559
Home: 608/274-8039

Lynn S. Fuchs
Department of Special Education
Peabody College/Vanderbilt University
Box 328 Nashville, TN 37203
Ofc: 615/343-4782
Fax: 615/343-1570
E-mail: fuchsl@uansvs

Margaret E. Goertz
Carriage House at Eagleton Institute of Politics
Rutgers University
86 Clifton Avenue
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1568
Ofc: 908/932-1331
Fax: 908/932-1551
E-mail: goertz@zodiac.rutgers.edu

Michael L. Hardman
Office of the Dean
Milton Bennion Hall 225
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah 84112
Ofc: 801/581-4082
Fax: 801/581-5223
E-mail: hardman@gse.utah.edu

Ted S. Hasselbring
Peabody College/Vanderbilt University
Box 45
Nashville, TN 37203
Ofc: 615/322-8070
Fax: 615/343-7556
Email: hassclts@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu
Home: 615/760-6937

Daniel M. Koretz
Education Policy Research Program
Urban Institute
2100 M Street, NW
Washington, DC 20037-1270
Ofc: 202/857-8526
Fax:202/463-8522
E-mail: dkoretz@ui.urban.org

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Ari L. Nettles
The University of Michigan
610 E. University Avenue
1360B School of Education Building
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1259
Ofc: 313/763-6123
Fax: 313/763-1368
E-mail: arie.nettles@um.cc.umich.edu
Home:313/761-1821

Ian E. Novos
Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Economics
225 North Avenue, NW
Atlanta, GA 30332-0615
Ofc: 404/894-3542
Fax: 404/894/1890
E-mail: ian.novos@econ.gatech.edu
Home: 404/875-1941

Diana J. Pullin
Boston College
School of Education
Chestnut Hill, MA 02167
Ofc: 617/552-4200
Fax: 617/552-0812
E-mail: pullin@hermes.bc.edu

Daniel J. Reschly
Department of Psychology
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa 50011-3180
Ofc: 515/294-1487
Fax: 515/294-6424
E-mail: dreschl@iastate.edu
Home: 515/233-6837

Ann P. Turnbull
Beach Center on Families and Disability
3111 Haworth Hall
The University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045
Ofc: 913/864-7608
Fax: 913/864-5825
E-mail: beach@dole.lsi.ukans.edu
Home: 913/843-9500

Edward Lee Vargas
Santa Ana Unified School District
1405 French Street
Santa Ana, CA 92701-2499
Ofc: 714/558-5501
Fax: 714/558-5802
Home: 714/858-5048

Richard K. Wagner
Department of Psychology
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306-1051
Ofc: 904/644-1033
Fax: 904/644-739
E-mail: rkwagner@psy.fsu.edu

John F. Witte
Department of Political Science
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI 53706
Ofc: 608/263-2029
Fax: 608/265-2663
E-mail: jwitte@polisci.wisc.edu
Home: 608/233-5026

James E. Ysseldyke
Department of Educational Psychology
350 Elliott Hall - Univ. of Minnesota
75 East River Road
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Ofc: 612/624-4014
Fax: 612/624-0879
E-mail: yssl001@maroon.tc.umm.edu
Home: 612/631-0297

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NEWS FROM BOB DOLE
U.S. SENATOR FROM KANSAS
SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, February 3, 1994

CONTACT: CLARKSON HINE
(202) 224-5358

SENATE ADOPTS DOLE AMENDMENT TO GOALS 2000 BILL
STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES SHOULDN'T MISS THE BUS IN SCHOOL REFORM

Washington -- Senator Bob Dole Issued the following statement today on his amendment to require a study of GOALS 2000 and students with disabilities:

I am pleased that my amendment which directs the Secretary of Education to conduct a study of how well students with disabilities are served by the GOALS 2000 school reforms has been included among the managers amendments. The National Academy of Sciences was selected as the contractor because of its reputation for both independence and excellence.
There are three reasons why this study is important and, in my views, way overdue.
First, I am concerned that students with disabilities will miss the bus when it comes to school reform. Whether one agrees with GOALS 2000 or not, the national debate over education sparked by the 1983 report A Nation At Risk has been important and sometimes riveting.
Regrettably, in the past 11 years there has been little attention to students with disabilities -- although they comprise 10 percent of all students and are among those most in need of education reforms. For example, GOALS 2000 aims for a 90-percent high school graduation rate. Even without reform, the graduation rate among nondisabled stuents has been growing, up to 83 percent

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