Maris Vinovskis: Leading seminar in Congress on No Child Left Behind
The National History Center’s last Congressional seminar series event for the year will be a presentation by Professor Maris Vinovskis on the history of the “No Child Left Behind” (NCLB) program. Vinovskis’s presentation, entitled, “From a Nation at Risk to No Child Left Behind: Federal Compensatory Education Policies from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush,” is co-sponsored with the House Humanities Caucus. The program will take place on Friday, 9 December 2005 from 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. in the Gold Room of the Rayburn House Office Building. A complimentary breakfast will be served.
This presentation is specifically targeted to meeting the policy information needs of Members, their staff, and other policy makers as they collectively grapple with the NCLB re-authorization bill slated to be addressed by Congress in coming weeks and months. The Congressional Seminar Series, that evolved out of a National Coalition for History special initiative, is rooted in the belief that historical context can inform and meaningfully assist in the development of legislation and national policy.
Professor Vinovskis is the Bentley Professor of History, Research Professor at the Institute of Social Research, and Professor of Public Policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. He served as deputy staff director to the U.S. House Select Committee on Population in 1978 and worked in the 1990s in the U.S. Department of Education on questions of educational policy and research, in both Republican and Democratic administrations. He is currently a member of the congressionally-mandated Independent Review Panel on “No Child Left Behind.” From 1981 to 1985, he worked as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on the issues of family planning and adolescent pregnancy. He has published nine books, edited seven, and has written over 100 scholarly articles.
This presentation is specifically targeted to meeting the policy information needs of Members, their staff, and other policy makers as they collectively grapple with the NCLB re-authorization bill slated to be addressed by Congress in coming weeks and months. The Congressional Seminar Series, that evolved out of a National Coalition for History special initiative, is rooted in the belief that historical context can inform and meaningfully assist in the development of legislation and national policy.
Professor Vinovskis is the Bentley Professor of History, Research Professor at the Institute of Social Research, and Professor of Public Policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. He served as deputy staff director to the U.S. House Select Committee on Population in 1978 and worked in the 1990s in the U.S. Department of Education on questions of educational policy and research, in both Republican and Democratic administrations. He is currently a member of the congressionally-mandated Independent Review Panel on “No Child Left Behind.” From 1981 to 1985, he worked as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on the issues of family planning and adolescent pregnancy. He has published nine books, edited seven, and has written over 100 scholarly articles.