coe-staff: FW: LEARN Coalition - Schneider nomination for IES official

Wed Nov 29 17:18:35 PST 2017

Dear Faculty and Staff,

Please see the note below about the nomination of Mark Schneider for IES Director and his credentials and background.  Our LEARN coalition colleagues will keep us informed as the process unfolds.

Regards,

Randy

From: Alex Nock [mailto:ANock at pennhillgroup.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 6:39 AM
To: Vic Klatt <VKlatt at pennhillgroup.com<mailto:VKlatt at pennhillgroup.com>>
Cc: Blanchi Roblero <broblero at pennhillgroup.com<mailto:broblero at pennhillgroup.com>>
Subject: LEARN Coalition - Schneider nomination for IES official

Good morning.  Yesterday the Trump Administration officially announced their intent to nominate Mark Schneider as IES Director.  As you remember, we flagged this possibility earlier this month (original email below) and include the official press announcement from the White House below.  Next steps on this will be to actually transmit the nomination to the Senate (sometimes this takes weeks or months) and then for the Senate to act on the nomination.  We will check in on whether HELP will hold a hearing on this nomination.  Please let us know if you have any questions.  Thank you.

President Donald J. Trump Announces Key Additions to his Administration
President Donald J. Trump Announces Intent to Nominate Mark Schneider to the Department of Education
If confirmed, Mark Schneider of the District of Columbia will serve as Director of the Institute of Education Science in the Department of Education for a term of six years. Currently, Dr. Schneider is a vice president and an Institute Fellow at the American Institutes for Research and President of College Measures. From 2005-2008, he served as Commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics. Dr. Schneider is also a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of political science at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. Dr. Schneider is one of the pioneers in measuring the return on the investment that students and taxpayers make in pursuing higher education. Dr. Schneider has been working on increasing schools’ accountability by making data on college productivity and the labor market success of college graduates more publicly available. In 2013, the Chronicle of Higher Education selected him as one of the 10 people who had the most impact on higher education policy that year. Dr. Schneider earned his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in 1974. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Brooklyn College, City University of New York.

From: Alex Nock
Sent: Wednesday, November 8, 2017 3:44 PM
To: Vic Klatt <VKlatt at pennhillgroup.com<mailto:VKlatt at pennhillgroup.com>>
Cc: Blanchi Roblero <broblero at pennhillgroup.com<mailto:broblero at pennhillgroup.com>>
Subject: LEARN Coalition - FW: Schneider seen as front-runner to head Education Department's statistics arm

Good afternoon LEARN Coalition Members.  We wanted to pass along this article that reports that Mark Schneider, former NCES head during the Bush Administration is in the running to be IES director.  We’ve inquired with folks and it does seem like he is a real possibility for this position.  Whether and when a formal announcement will be made however is not clear.  Please let us know if you have any questions. Thank you. Alex

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Subject: Schneider seen as front-runner to head Education Department's statistics arm

By Kimberly Hefling and Caitlin Emma

11/08/2017 03:30 PM EDT

Mark Schneider is a front-runner to serve as director of the Institute of Education Sciences at the Department of Education, the agency's statistics, evaluation and research arm, POLITICO has learned.

During the George W. Bush administration, Schneider served as commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, which is within IES. Schneider is a vice president and institute fellow at the American Institutes for Research.

A White House spokesman declined to comment, citing a policy of not commenting on personnel issues. A source, speaking on background, confirmed that Schneider is a front-runner.

Schneider has a background in both K-12 and higher education policy and research. In recent years, he has pushed for making higher education data more transparent and user-friendly.

Schneider has testified before Congress on the need for better consumer information so that prospective students can better judge which post-secondary institution to attend and what to study. He also helped create College Measures, which works with state governments to help identify higher education credentials with high returns on investment.

Schneider is a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and distinguished professor emeritus of political science at the State University of New York, Stony Brook.

IES has a stated mission to provide rigorous evidence on which to ground education practice and policy.

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