Meetings: Education Statistics Advisory Council,

[Federal Register: May 15, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 94)]

[Notices]

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Advisory Council on Education Statistics, (ACES)

AGENCY: U.S. Department of Education.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

SUMMARY: This notice sets forth the schedule and proposed agenda of a forthcoming meeting of the Advisory Council on Education Statistics (ACES). This notice of this meeting is required under Section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act. This document is intended to notify the general public of their opportunity to attend.

DATES: May 21-22, 1998.

TIMES: May 21, 1998--Full Council, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.; Management Committee, 10:45 a.m.-4:30 p.m.; Statistics Committee, 10:45 a.m.-4:40 p.m.; Strategy/Policy 10:45 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

May 22, 1998--Full Council 12 noon to 3:00 p.m.; Statistics Committee, 8:30 a.m.-12:00 noon; Strategy/Policy Committee, 8:30 a.m. to 12 noon; and Management Committee, 8:30 to 12 noon.

LOCATION: Phoenix Park Hotel, 520 North Capitol Street NW, Washington D.C. 20001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Barbara Marenus, National Center for Education Statistics, 555 New Jersey Ave, NW, Room 400J, Washington, D.C. 20208-5530--(202) 219-1835.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Advisory Council on Education Statistics (ACES) is established under Section 406(c)(1) of the Education Amendments of 1974, Pub. L. 93-380. The Council is established to review general policies for the operation of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement and is responsible for advising on standards to insure that statistics and analyses disseminated by NCES are of high quality and are not subject to political influence. In addition, ACES is required to advise the Commissioner of NCES and the National Assessment Governing Board on technical and statistical matters related to the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP). The meeting of the Council is open to the public.

The proposed agenda for the full Council includes the following:

‹bullet› A status report from the NCES Commissioner on major Center initiatives; and

‹bullet› The presentation of Committee reports.

Individual meetings of the three ACES subcommittees will focus on specific topics:

‹bullet› The agenda for the Management Committee includes discussion on the results from the 1997 Customer Service Survey, a report on the development of partnerships with external organizations, a discussion of ``capacity building'' activities for NCES, and discussion on NCES's program planning activities.

‹bullet› The agenda for the Statistics Committee includes a discussion of the emerging issues in NCES's licensing policy, a discussion of the response probability convention in assessment scales, and a report on race/ethnicity reporting issues.

‹bullet› The agenda for the Strategy/Policy Committee includes a discussion of redesign issues in the Schools and Staffing Survey, a discussion of a new longitudinal cohort study and a briefing on school crime data collections options.

Records are kept of all Council proceedings and are available for public inspection at the Office of the Executive Director, Advisory Council on Education Statistics, 555 New Jersey Avenue, NW, Room 400J, Washington, D.C. 20208-7575. Ricky Takai, Acting Assistant Secretary for Educational Research and Improvement.

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