COMMITTEE ON
DEVELOPMENTS IN THE SCIENCE OF LEARNING

JOHN D. BRANSFORD (Cochair), Learning Technology Center, Vanderbilt University

ANN L. BROWN (Cochair), Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley

JOHN R. ANDERSON, Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University

ROCHEL GELMAN, Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles

ROBERT GLASER, Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh

WILLIAM T. GREENOUGH, Department of Psychology and Beckman Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana

GLORIA LADSON-BILLINGS, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin, Madison

BARBARA M. MEANS, Education and Health Division, SRI International, Menlo Park, California

JOSÉ P. MESTRE, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

LINDA NATHAN, Boston Arts Academy, Boston, Massachusetts

ROY D. PEA, Center for Technology in Learning, SRI International, Menlo Park, California

PENELOPE L. PETERSON, School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University

BARBARA ROGOFF, Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz

THOMAS A. ROMBERG, National Center for Research in Mathematical Sciences Education, University of Wisconsin, Madison

SAMUEL S. WINEBURG, College of Education, University of Washington, Seattle





RODNEY R. COCKING, Study Director

M. JANE PHILLIPS, Senior Project Assistant

In Memory of Ann L. Brown (1943- 1999) Scholar and Scientist Champion of Children and Those Who Teach Them Whose Vision It Was to Bring Learning Research into the Classroom