Whitehurst, G

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Grover J. "Russ" Whitehurst is the Herman and George R. Brown Chair and director of the Brown Center on Education Policy at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookings_Institution" title="Brookings Institution" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Brookings Institution</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Whitehurst#cite_note-Whitehurst_bio_expert_page_on_Brookings.edu-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[1]</a> His research primarily focuses on program evaluation, teacher quality, preschools, national and international student assessments, reading instruction, education technology, and education data systems.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Whitehurst#cite_note-Whitehurst_bio_expert_page_on_Brookings.edu-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[1]</a>

Previously, he was the director of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_of_Education_Sciences" title="Institute of Education Sciences" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Institute of Education Sciences</a> (IES), which is the research arm of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Education" title="United States Department of Education" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">United States Department of Education</a>, and U.S. assistant secretary for Educational Research and Improvement.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Whitehurst#cite_note-Whitehurst_bio_expert_page_on_Brookings.edu-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[1]</a> Prior to these positions, Whitehurst served as Lead Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_State_University_of_New_York_at_Stony_Brook" title="The State University of New York at Stony Brook" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">the State University of New York at Stony Brook</a>.

A program he developed to enhance school readiness in children from low-income families, Dialogic Reading, is widely used in preschools around the world. He was a pioneer in delivering college-level instruction through the internet, for which he was awarded the Microsoft Innovators in Higher Education Award in 1996. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Whitehurst#cite_note-Whitehurst_bio_expert_page_on_Brookings.edu-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[1]</a>

He received his Ph.D. in experimental child psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1970. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Whitehurst#cite_note-Whitehurst_bio_expert_page_on_Brookings.edu-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[1]</a>

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Education policy one of the areas in which establishment Democrats have most embraced right-wing positions, but Brookings' director of education policy takes it a step beyond that. Grover (Russ) Whitehurst is an education adviser to Mitt Romney, and Ravitch <a href="http://dianeravitch.net/2012/06/11/the-day-i-was-terminated/" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">is wondering if there's a connection</a> between Whitehurst's relationship with Romney and Brookings dumping her.

Ravitch writes that she had been affiliated with Brookings in one way or another since 1993, for the last seven years as an unpaid senior fellow. Two years ago, when her book The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Educationwas released, she contacted Whitehurst about setting up an event at Brookings to discuss the book. Quite unusually,

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Follow the link below to watch the full event:

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Featuring David J. Armor, Professor Emeritus of Public Policy, George Mason University; Deborah A. Phillips, Professor of Psychology, Georgetown University; Grover J. “Russ” Whitehurst, Director, Brown Center on Education Policy, Brookings Institution; and William T. Gormley, University Professor of Public Policy, Georgetown University; moderated by Neal P. McCluskey, Associate Director, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute.

With American education seemingly stuck in neutral no matter what elementary and secondary reforms we try, policymakers are looking to younger children to improve achievement. Indeed, touting the benefits of “high-quality” programs, President Obama has proposed spending $75 billion to expand preschool to all four-year olds. But on what research basis does the argument for greatly expanding early childhood education rest? What do we know about the effectiveness of preschool?

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