Whitehurst: IES research budget request shifts focus.

The article discusses comments by Grover J. Whitehurst, former director of the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) regarding IES funding. The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama has requested increased funding for the IES for educational research and development. Whitehurst comments that the proposed increase will shift research to local education agencies (LEAs) and that much of the research would focus on the use of U.S. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds.