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Stacey Boyd, Chair
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Stacey Boyd is the founder and CEO of The Savvy Source for Parents, which provides education and technology consulting services to non-profits, corporations and government entities, with clients that include the World Economic Forum, the US Department of State and US Agency for International Development. In the spring of 2003, Ms. Boyd concluded a four-year tenure as the President and CEO of Project Achieve, Inc., a company she founded to provide a comprehensive information management system to primary and secondary schools throughout the United States. Prior to launching Project Achieve, Ms. Boyd was the Founding Director and Principal of an inner-city charter school that has consistently been the top performing public middle school in the Boston area since its founding. Ms. Boyd earned both an MBA and Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University and her BA from Hamilton College.
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Clara M. Lovett
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Born in Trieste, Italy, Lovett came to the United States in 1962 and earned her master's and doctoral degrees in history at the University of Texas, Austin. Dr. Lovett taught at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where she made her mark as a teacher and scholar in the field of Modern European History. During her years in the Washington, D.C. area, Dr. Lovett held national leadership roles as chief of the European Division of the Library of Congress, dean of arts and sciences at The George Washington University, and provost at George Mason University. She lectured at the Foreign Service Institute of the Department of State, wrote for The Chronicle of Higher Education and Change magazine, and participated in national projects for higher education reform. In 1989, she was on Washingtonian magazine's list of most influential women in Washington; in 1992, the Virginia Federation of Business and Professional Women named her Educator of the Year. In October 1993, Dr. Lovett was named president of Northern Arizona University. Most recently, Dr. Lovett served as president of the American Association for Higher Education.
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Chester E. Finn, Jr.
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Chester E. Finn, Jr. is president of the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation and Thomas B. Fordham Institute and senior editor of Education Next. Dr. Finn is also a Senior Fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution and a Fellow of the International Academy of Education and an Adjunct Fellow at the Hudson Institute, where he worked from 1995 through 1998. In his distinguished career, Dr. Finn has also served as John M. Olin Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, founding partner and senior scholar with the Edison Project, Professor of Education and Public Policy at Vanderbilt University, and Assistant Secretary for Research and Improvement at the U.S. Department of Education.
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Ira Fishman
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Ira Fishman is partner and Chief Operating Officer at Patton Boggs LLP. Mr. Fishman previously served as special counsel and director of the Task Force on Education at the Federal Communications Commission and was named the founding CEO of the Schools and Libraries Corporation, a non-profit that provides $2.25 billion annually to K-12 schools and public libraries. In his distinguished career, Mr. Fishman has also served as deputy assistant to the president for legislative affairs at the White House during the Clinton Administration, vice president for congressional and external affairs at the Export-Import Bank of the United States, and founding CEO of HiFusion, an innovative education and consumer media company. Mr. Fishman is currently on the Board of Education Sector.
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Marti Watson Garlett
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Marti Watson Garlett serves as Vice President for Educator Development at Laureate Education, Inc. Prior to coming to Laureate, Dr.Garlett served as the Founding Dean of the Teachers College at Western Governors University, where she established national programs in initial educator licensure that were approved by multiple states. She also was appointed as Kaplan University's first Academic Dean for its School of Education, as well as the first Dean of the School of Education at Chicago's Kendall College, which has a notable Early Childhood Education program. Dr. Garlett's career emphasis has been centered on inventing new paradigms in teacher preparation for non-traditional candidates wishing to become P-12 teachers, especially through distance learning and online alternatives. Dr. Garlett has written three books and numerous articles and is an in-demand speaker at national conferences. In addition, she has taught on five continents (Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, and South America).
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Jason Kamras
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In April of 2005, President Bush named Jason Kamras the 2005 National Teacher of the Year. Mr. Kamras teaches seventh and eighth grade mathematics at John Philip Sousa Middle School, a District of Columbia public school. He began teaching in 1996 as a member of Teach for America.
Mr. Kamras was recognized for helping his students make historic achievement gains in one of America's most disadvantaged communities. He was also recognized for co-founding and directing the EXPOSE digital photography program at his school, for which he previously received the Mayor's Art Award, the highest arts honor bestowed by the District of Columbia.
Mr. Kamras graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1995, earning his bachelor's degree in public policy. In 2000, Mr. Kamras earned his master's degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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Donald N. Langenberg
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Donald N. Langenberg was educated at Iowa State University (B.S.), the University of California, Los Angeles (M.S.), and the University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D.). All his earned degrees are in physics. He also holds honorary degrees from the University of Pennsylvania (M.A. and D.Sc.) and from the State University of New York (D.Sc.).
After a postdoctoral year at Oxford University, Dr. Langenberg joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania in 1960, as Assistant Professor of Physics. He held the rank of Professor of Physics from 1967 to 1983, and had a secondary appointment as Professor of Electrical Engineering and Science from 1976 to 1983. In February 1983, Dr. Langenberg became Chancellor of the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), where he also held the rank of Professor of Physics. He is currently Chairman of the Board of Directors of The Education Trust, Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Council for Science and the Environment, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of the District of Columbia. Dr. Langenberg is a nationally recognized leader in education issues, particularly K-16 education partnerships and information technology as a revolutionary change agent in higher education. He was appointed chairman of the National Reading Panel (NRP) in 1998 by the U.S. Department of Education and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. The Panel was charged by Congress to study the effectiveness of various approaches to teaching children how to read and to report on the best ways of applying its findings in the classroom and the home. He currently serves as a member of the National Research Council?s Committee on the Study of Teacher Preparation Programs in the United States and its Committee on the Enhancement of the Master?s Degree in the Natural Sciences.
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Carol G. Peck
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Carol G. Peck is currently the President and CEO of the Rodel Charitable Foundation of Arizona. She is working diligently to improve Arizona's education system so that it is widely recognized as one of the best in the country by 2020. As the former Alhambra School District Superintendent for 16 years, Dr. Peck created, developed, and implemented a variety of winning programs that significantly raised student achievement in a large urban district. Her business partnership program brought in $1.3 million each year for programs to help ensure the success of Alhambra students. As a business leader, Dr. Peck collaborates with key government, business, and education officials to encourage, support, and facilitate systemic educational changes statewide. As a noted co-author, she stresses the importance of "high, yet realistic goals" in her book, The Best Kept Secret to Achieving Successful School Management. Additionally, Dr. Peck has authored many journal articles and presented on "Raising Student Achievement by Raising Expectations" throughout the United States, China, Australia, and South Africa. She also writes a regular column for the Arizona Republic, highlighting successful education programs throughout the state.
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Andrew J. Rotherham
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Andrew Rotherham is co-director of Education Sector and a senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute. He also serves on the Virginia Board of Education. Mr. Rotherham previously served at The White House as Special Assistant to President Clinton for Domestic Policy.
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Kirk Schroder
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Kirk is very active and passionate about education and children's issues. While maintaining his private law practice, Kirk served as president of the Virginia Board of Education from 1998 - 2002 along with other distinguished education institutions such as the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) in Atlanta. He is the first president of the Charlottesville-Albemarle Public Education Fund and also holds a Ph.D in education from the University of Virginia. Kirk is also the chair of the education policy committee for the Virginia Chamber of Commerce and serves on the board of directors of Communities In Schools of Virginia. Kirk was also named to the 2007 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® for the field of education law. A very limited portion of his practice involves education policy issues.
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Danielle Wilcox
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Danielle Wilcox is a consultant in Charlottesville, Virginia. Previously Ms. Wilcox was the acting head of the National Council on Teacher Quality. Ms. Wilcox has co-authored several articles on teacher quality including, "Teachers Should Be Graded on How Well Their Students Are Learning" (The Los Angeles Times with Chester E. Finn, Jr.), and "The National Board of Professional Teaching Standards: Can It Live Up to Its Promise?" in Better Teachers, Better Schools (Thomas B. Fordham Foundation).
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Kate Walsh
President
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Kate Walsh has served as the president of the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) since 2002. Her commitment to addressing educational inequities and the nation's achievement gap has defined her career, with a long tenure as a senior program officer with The Abell Foundation, as well as the Baltimore City Public Schools and Core Knowledge Foundation. Her work has tackled a broad spectrum of need--from launching a highly successful program for gifted public school students that regularly produces finalists in the Intel Science Talent Search, to starting The Baraka School, a unique boarding school located in Kenya established for the purpose of educating troubled and at-risk young boys from Baltimore City.
A constant in Walsh's work is her strong belief in the capacity of a single teacher to alter a child's life for the better and that better policies offer the surest path to greater teacher quality. Her convictions are evident in the numerous studies and papers that she has authored and in practice, including starting the first alternative certification program in Maryland.
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