President Barack Obama announced his appointment of Northwestern professor Larry V. Hedges to the National Board of Education Sciences Wednesday.
Hedges will be working with Southern Methodist University professor Dr. David J. Chard and Hirokazu Yoshikawa, an academic dean from Harvard, whose appointments were also announced in a statement from the Office of the Press Secretary.
Hedges is NU’s Board of Trustees Professor of Statistics, and has worked as a Faculty Fellow of its Institute for Policy Research since 2005. He is also the president of the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness.
– Safiya Merchant
