In September, JOHN BAUGH was recognized as 1999 Educator of the Year at the 5th Annual Scholarship and Awards Gala sponsored by 100 Black Men of Silicon Valley, Inc. His most recent publication is Beyond Ebonics: Lingustic Pride and Racial Prejudice (Oxford University Press, 2000).

JO BOALER received a five-year, Early Career Award from the National Science Foundation for "Advancing Teacher Development - The Integration of Knowledge and Practice."

LEE CRONBACH's book, Designing Evaluations of Educational and Social Programs, published in 1982, was selected by the University of South Carolina Museum of Education for its Books of the Century exhibition. The exhibition is a series of displays that will appear throughout the 1999-2000 academic year - it was featured in a December issue of Education Week. Books by I. JAMES QUILLEN, PAUL HANNA, DAVID TYACK and ELLIOT EISNER are also featured in the exhibition.

MICHAEL KIRST is co-director of an education policy organization called Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE), a joint Stanford and UC-Berkeley undertaking. They received a renewal grant of $900,000 from the Hewlett Foundation to work on K-12 education reform, and a $6 million grant from the State of California to improve the quality of child care providers and personnel. PACE will be opening new offices in L.A. and Merced, CA.

JOHN KRUMBOLTZ was the invited keynote speaker at the 3rd International Congress on Psychology and Education in Spain. His talk was translated simultaneously into several languages and he was gratified that his humor received multiple chuckles as different translators got to the punch line at slightly different times.

SUSANNA LOEB will be receiving the American Education Finance Association's Jean Flanigan Outstanding Dissertation Award. She also has three forthcoming articles in the Journal of Public Economics, the Review of Economics and Statistics, and the American Education Research Journal.

On February 9, 2000, WILLIAM MASSY , presented testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs at its hearing on "The Rising Cost of College Tuition and the Effectiveness of Governmental Financial Aid." A copy of the testimony can found on the NCPI website (http://www.stanford.edu/group/ncpi/index.shtml).

DENIS PHILLIPS' recent publications include: Postpositivism and Educational Research (Rowman and Littlefield), Constructivism in Education: Opinions and Second Opinions on Controversial Issues (99th NSSE Yearbook) and The Social Scientist's Bestiary (Rowman and Littlefield). Early this summer, he will be co-hosting with MICHAEL KIRST a meeting of the International Academy of Education. Also during the summer, he will edit a special issue of the International Journal of Educational Research with Eamonn Callan on the theme, "Multiculturalism and Education: Philosophical Perspectives."

WALTER POWELL has been selected to join the board of directors for the Social Science Research Council.

GEORGE SPINDLER's article with Lorie Hammond, "Anthropological Ethnography's Influence on Education" will appear in the Harvard Educational Review. He recently published "Three Kinds of Cultural Knowledge Useful in Cultural Therapy" in the December issue of Anthropology and Education Quarterly.

Professor Emeritus HANS WEILER, was appointed Chairman of the Prime Minister's Commission on Higher Education for the state of Saxony (Germany). The Commission is to develop proposals for the further development of higher education in Saxony against the background of major demographic and economic changes in Eastern Germany and new links with the countries of Central Europe. In addition, he and PATRICIA GUMPORT, Director of the Stanford Institute for Higher Education Research (SIHER), served as co-organizers of the 1999 Fulbright Educational Experts Seminar, which dealt with assessing quality in higher education.

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ELIZABETH McCULLOCH , an associate consulting professor for counseling psychology in the School of Education, died on November 12, 1999, at the age of 47. She worked in the Psychological Studies in Education Program for the Counseling Psychology Program, which trains counselors and examines issues related to counseling in education.