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3 unusual facts about National Institute of Education


Diana Whitney

In her 1980 dissertation, funded by the National Institute of Education, Whitney studied and mapped the processes used for the dissemination of educational innovations.

Jean Lipman-Blumen

Lipman-Blumen has served as assistant director of the National Institute of Education and as special advisor to the Domestic Policy Staff in the White House under President Jimmy Carter.

Marcia Linn

In 1983 she won one of two grants awarded by the National Institute of Education to study the emerging role of technology in education.


Rawley Silver

She went on to conduct research projects on this subject, supported by the U.S. Office of Education and the National Institute of Education, among others.


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Marc Tucker

He previously served as executive director at Carnegie Forum on Education and the Economy; president at the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards; associate director at the National Institute of Education, U.S. Department of Education; and a professor of education at the University of Rochester.