As the Center heads into its
eighth year as a National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center, CBN investigators have amassed an impressive amount
of research funding and
publication numbers, proving the Center has become a major funding and intellectual resource to the behavioral neuroscience community.
Tennessee Education Commissioner Kevin Huffman, whose state's performance on NAEP this
year was questioned by this
publication after revelations
of high exclusion levels (including a 27 percent exclusion rate for
eighth - graders in special ed on NAEP's reading exam, and an 18 percent exclusion rate
of 14 percent
of eighth - grade special ed kids from NAEP's math exam):