June 4, 2009

A Timeline of Research Gone Wrong

1996: Robert D. Felner leaves the U. of Illinois to become the director of the U. of Rhode Island's School of Education.

1997: Mr. Felner helps create the National Center on Public Education and Social Policy, a research center at Rhode Island.

2001: Mr. Felner and Thomas Schroeder file paperwork to create a nonprofit organization in Illinois with a similar name: the National Center on Public Education and Prevention. Meanwhile, the Rhode Island center begins