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U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings today announced the 17 expert panelists and six ex-officio members chosen to comprise the National Mathematics Advisory Panel. The panel will advise President Bush and Secretary Spellings on the best use of scientifically based research to advance the teaching and learning of mathematics.

"To keep America competitive in the 21st century, we must improve the way we teach math and we must give more students the chance to take advanced math and science courses in high school," Secretary Spellings said. "America's high school graduates need solid math skills, whether proceeding to college or going into the workforce."

The National Mathematics Advisory Panel (NMP), modeled after the National Reading Panel, will examine and summarize the scientific evidence related to the teaching and learning of mathematics, with a specific focus on preparation for and success in learning algebra. The NMP will issue an interim report by Jan. 31, 2007 and a final report no later than Feb. 28, 2008. These reports will provide policy recommendations on how to improve mathematics achievement for all students.

The National Mathematics Advisory Panel will be chaired by Dr. Larry Faulkner, president of the Houston Endowment and President Emeritus of the University of Texas at Austin.

Other panelists:

• Dr. Camilla Benbow, Vice Chair of the National Math Panel, Dean of Education and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, Peabody College
• Dr. Deborah Ball, Dean, School of Education and Collegiate Professor, University of Michigan
• Dr. A. Wade Boykin, Professor and Director of the Developmental Psychology Graduate Program in the Department of Psychology, Howard University
• Dr. Francis "Skip" Fennell, Professor of Education, McDaniel College (Md.); President, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
• Dr. David Geary, Curators' Professor, Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri at Columbia
• Dr. Russell Gersten, Executive Director, Instructional Research Group; Professor Emeritus, College for Education, University of Oregon
• Nancy Ichinaga, former Principal, Bennett-Kew Elementary School, Inglewood, Calif.
• Dr. Tom Loveless, Director, Brown Center on Education Policy and Senior Fellow in Governance Studies, The Brookings Institution
• Dr. Liping Ma, Senior Scholar for the Advancement of Teaching, Carnegie Foundation
• Dr. Valerie Reyna, Professor of Human Development and Professor of Psychology, Cornell University
• Dr. Wilfried Schmid, Professor of Mathematics, Harvard University
• Dr. Robert Siegler, Teresa Heinz Professor of Cognitive Psychology, Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University
• Dr. Jim Simons, President of Renaissance Technologies Corporation; former Chairman of the Mathematics Department, State University of New York at Stony Brook
• Dr. Sandra Stotsky, Independent researcher and consultant in education; former Senior Associate Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Education
• Vern Williams, Math Teacher, Longfellow Middle School, Fairfax, Va.
• Dr. Hung-Hsi Wu, Professor of Mathematics, University of California at Berkeley

Ex-officio members:

• Dan Berch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health
• Diane Jones, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
• Tom Luce, Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Education
• Kathie Olsen, Deputy Director, National Science Foundation
• Raymond Simon, Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Education
• Grover (Russ) Whitehurst, Director, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education

All meetings of the NMP will be open to the public and will be announced in the Federal Register.

For fact sheets on the National Math Panel and the American Competitiveness Initiative, please visit http://www.ed.gov/news/opeds/factsheets/index.html.

Note: This press release was updated after it was originally released.

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