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Education professor elected to national board
Douglas Camine has focused mainly on developing
curricula that meets the needs of K-12 students
BYCANELAWOOD
NEWS REPORTER
The American Board for Certifica
tion of Teacher Excellence — a na
tional board that creates tests for as
piring teachers — has recently added
13 new members to its board of direc
tors, and one of them is University
education Professor Douglas Carnine.
Carnine has spent a vast majority
of his 30-plus years with the Universi
ty, either directing or co-directing a
number of federally funded grants to
the College of Education. He has also
brought in millions of dollars of fed
eral money to one of the best colleges
of education in the country.
In addition to working on more
than 20 federally funded grants, Car
nine has written more than 60 re
search articles, 40 essays, 20 book
chapters and seven books. He has
also presented at more than 100 con
ferences around the globe.
As a member of the board, he will
attend two meetings annually and
will be called to attend conferences
as needed.
“Dr. Carnine is one of the most dis
tinguished research faculty in the
College of Education,” College of Ed
ucation Dean Martin Kaufman said.
“His career has focused on research
based practices in the profession. He
has championed curriculum designs
for preparing to teach K-12 students.”
Kaufman added that Carnine has
been one of the national leaders in
evidence-based practices, meaning
he utilizes the scientific method for
determining what works for students.
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Carnine taught in the college and
worked as an adviser to the national
board before he was appointed to its
board of directors.
“I’m just working part time, not
teaching. I’m just doing grant and proj
ect work,” Carnine said. “I haven’t
taught for a number of years. My proj
ect work is paid for by federal grants.”
Carnine said he was invited to join
the group’s board of directors six
months ago while he was working as
a board adviser. As an adviser, he
looked at specific project content or
tests in which he’d work to set mini
mum passing scores, he said.
As a member of the board, he
spends time working on finances,
planning for the future and working
on state relationships. Carnine said
he has to look at a broader range of
issues now that he’s on the board.
"I think their work is important, so
I’m pleased to be able to serve in that
capacity,” he said.
The board works to ensure there is
a highly qualified teacher in every
classroom, and it does this by creat
ing tests that individual states use to
asses a person’s ability to work as a
teacher. Each state then formulates
its own standards for what scores are
required to earn a teaching creden
tial, Carnine said.
Kaufman said that the board is part
of a conglomerate of leaders from
throughout the country who are
working in education.
“Doug is a respected member and
consultant of the organizations behind
(the board),” Kaufman said, adding
that Carnine has had a long relation
ship with many of those groups.
“The board is important because
there’s a shortage of qualified teach
ers,” Carnine said. “Many people
who have a degree in science or
math are working and may not have
time or money to go back to school.
This test allows someone to move
into teaching.”
Carnine said the test was designed
to be rigorous and, in some cases,
even harder than college classes.
“To pass they’d have to know
more than if they went through some
of the teaching programs offered
across the country,” he said.
Carnine developed an interest in
education when he attended the Uni
versity of Illinois, where he met his
wife of 34 years, Linda. The couple
decided to move to Oregon when a
project that Carnine had been work
ing on had its funding and staff
moved to the University.
Carnine said he liked the move to
Oregon because the University has a
very good education school and he
and his wife like the area.
“The College of Education has the
highest grant revenue per faculty
than any other college in the United
States,” Carnine said.
Carnine’s contributions to the Col
lege of Education, in the form of
grant money, total between $25 and
30 million, he said, adding that the
total encompasses everyone else who
has been involved with the projects.
“It’s exciting that he’s involved
with getting people certified and in
volved with public education,” Linda
Carnine said.
Linda Carnine has been highly in
volved with education as well. She
Lauren Wimer | Senior photographer
University professor Douglas Carnine sits in his home Friday afternoon after recently
becoming a member of the American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence.
worked in the Springfield School Dis
trict as an elementary school princi
pal and as director of special pro
grams for the district.
“We certainly have common in
terests and an understanding of
when the other’s work gives certain
restraints,” she said. “I think our
interest in trying to improve kids
who grow up in poverty goes back
to when we first met 35 years ago. I
really believe in the concept of No
Child Left Behind. It’s a real ticket
to life for everyone. ”
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Measure 35: Opponents say
measure is overly simple
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patients’ bill of rights.
Malone’s son was the victim of a
medical mistake. The doctor pre
scribed an experimental drug to Ian
Malone’s mother, forcing her into
contractions so intense that it smoth
ered Ian Malone, Malone said. The
baby survived, but suffered compli
cations for more than four years, un
til his death in May, Malone said.
Now, Dylan Malone has jumped
on board the No on 35 campaign,
urging people to protect victims’
rights by rejecting the measure. He
wants to honor his son by improving
the health care industry, he said.
Malone said that Measure 35
would only erode victims’ access to
justice and would do nothing to
make health care safer. He said the
solution lies in disciplining the four
or five percent of doctors doing 55
percent of the damage.
Also, Malone said the insurance in
dustry needs to be overhauled, adding
that the industry’s “Enron-esque ac
counting practices aren’t getting the
kind of scrutiny they ought to be.”
“Instead, they’re just trying to pun
ish the victims with this amend
ment,” he said. “The insurance in
dustry knows that this won’t lower
their malpractice rates. ”
Former Oregon governor Barbara
Roberts, an opponent of Measure 35,
agreed that the state needs to reform
the insurance industry. The few doc
tors that are drawing large lawsuits
also need to be weeded out, she said.
"(Measure 35 is) an answer, but
not to the problem,” Roberts said.
Roberts said an answer to the
problem is legislation that was
passed during rhe last session that al
lows the state to use state funds to
subsidize doctors in doctor-deprived
areas of Oregon for up to 80 percent
of their premium costs. Doctors are
now starting to take advantage of
that program, she said.
Tom Saddoris — who practices in
ternal medicine, is a member of the
Oregon Medical Association and is one
of the leaders in the No on 35 cam
paign — said he wanted to join the
campaign to protect the legal rights of
his patients. Criticizing Measure 35’s
“drastic, knee-jerk, one-size-fits-all, ar
bitrary $500,000 limit,” Saddoris said
measure proponents have put a value
on the quality of everybody’s life.
Saddoris criticized proponents’
claim that the measure will end frivo
lous lawsuits, saying that 95 percent
of malpractice cases never even make
it to trial and lawyers don’t take cases
without merit. The five percent of
cases that end up in trial involve vic
tims or families of victims who have
been “egregiously harmed,” he said.
Saddoris said there is no doctor cri
sis and that at least one study has
shown that the number of physicians
in Oregon increased 12 percent be
tween 2000 and 2004.
“I think we can debunk easily that
there’s a health care crisis,” he said.
“Doctors are not leaving Oregon.”
Malone said measure proponents
have ignored victims and have sup
ported an overly simple solution to the
problem of high insurance premiums.
“I’m very angry that they hijacked
the discussion for their agenda,
rather than talking about the needs of
an injured patient,” Malone said.
Malone said the measure limits a
victim’s constitutional rights. Juries
should be able to determine mone
tary awards based on individual cir
cumstances, he said.
“Be very careful to sign away your
rights to the court system because
you may need them someday,” Mal
one said.
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