Mike Cohen

President, Archive

Michael Cohen is a nationally recognized leader in education policy and standards based reform. He has been the President of Achieve since 2003. In 2006, Education Week ranked Achieve as the 7th most influential education policy organization in the nation, and ranked Achieve's landmark report, Ready or Not: Creating a High School Diploma That Counts, as among the most influential research studies in the past decade. Under Cohen's leadership Achieve formed the American Diploma Project Network, a growing network of states committed to improving preparation for postsecondary education and 21st century careers. Cohen held several senior education positions in the Clinton Administration including Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education at the U.S. Department of Education and Special Assistant to the President for Education Policy at the White House Earlier in his career, Cohen held key positions in national organizations that work with state education policymakers, including as Director of Education Policy for the National Governors Association, and Director of Policy Development and Planning for the National Association of State Boards of Education.

Rush Holt

United States Representative, House Education & Labor Committee

An active Member of Congress and a strong voice for his constituents, Rep. Holt serves on the Committee on Education and Labor, the Committee on Natural Resources, and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Holt was honored to serve on the National Commission on Mathematics and Science Teaching for the 21st Century chaired by former Senator and astronaut John Glenn. He is co-chair of the Research and Development Caucus. Rep. Holt has won several significant victories in Washington. He helped secure more than $700 million in new federal funding for science and technology research. Rep. Holt earned his B.A. in Physics from Carleton College in Minnesota and completed his Master’s and Ph.D. at NYU.

Marshall 'Mike' Smith

Senior Counselor to the Secretary, U.S. Department of Education

Mike Smith has directed the education program at the Hewlett Foundation since 2001. He was Under Secretary in the U.S. Department of Education from 1993 to 2000 and Acting Deputy Secretary from 1996 to 2000. In those roles, he directed the development and enactment of Goals 2000 and other major federal legislative initiatives and served as chief operating officer of the 5,000-person federal agency. Smith was dean of the Stanford University School of Education from 1986 to 1993 and director of the Wisconsin Center for Education Research from 1980 to 1986. He taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Education from 1976 to 1996, after earning a bachelor's degree at Harvard College and graduate degrees at the HGSE. Smith is a widely published education researcher. He is a member of the National Academy of Education and a former chairman of the board of the American Institutes of Research. He has served on numerous commissions and committees of the National Research Council and been a consultant to many government agencies, foundations, and non-profit organizations such as the Education Testing Service, and to foreign governments.

Lisa Brady-Gill

Executive Director, Office of Education Policy, Texas Instruments, Inc. - Education & Productivity

David Byer

Senior Manager, Education Leadership & Policy, Apple Inc.

Alice Cain

Education Director, Hope Street Group

Alice is Education Director for Hope Street Group, launched in 2003 by a group of young professionals deeply concerned about the future of the American Dream, our global competitiveness, and the direction and tone of our public policy debate. Hope Street Group represents Policy 2.0, a different way of thinking and acting in the policy arena. Before joining Hope Street Group, Alice was the chief advisor for K-12 education for Chairman George Miller of the U.S. House Committee on Education and Labor. Her expertise includes the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, and she led the team of House committee staffers working on the re-write of No Child Left Behind. Prior to joining the committee, she worked at the Children’s Defense Fund advocating on behalf of federal and state policies to help poor, minority and disabled children. She spent six years in the Clinton Administration where she directed the policy office at the National Institute for Literacy and was detailed for a year to assist Vice President Al Gore with workforce education and training policy. She spent 5 years on the Senate HELP Committee staff of Senator Paul Simon, where she assisted with the 1994 Elementary and Secondary Education Act reauthorization. More recently, she spent a year in New Zealand researching education policy and practice on a fellowship administered by Fulbright New Zealand. Alice has served on the boards of several national and local literacy organizations, and spent many years teaching GED and ESOL classes for low-income and homeless adults and youth and volunteering in Washington DC’s public schools.

Kevin Carey

Policy Director, Education Sector

Carey is Education Sector's Policy Director. Carey came to the organization in September 2005. Carey regularly contributes to the "Quick and the Ed" blog, and has published Education Sector reports on topics including a blueprint for a new system of college rankings, how states inflate educational progress under NCLB, and improving minority college graduation rates. He has published magazine articles in publications including Phi Delta Kappan, Education Week, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, New York Daily News, and Christian Science Monitor. He also writes a monthly column for The Chronicle of Higher Education. In 1995, Carey worked as an education finance analyst for the state of Indiana He subsequently served as a senior analyst for the Indiana Senate Finance Committee. and then as Indiana's Assistant State Budget Director for Education, where he advised the governor on finance and policy issues in K-12 and higher education. In 2001, Carey became an analyst for the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Carey subsequently worked at The Education Trust, where he was director of policy research.

Nancy Carey

Coordinator of Professional Development, Maryland State Department of Educatio

Nancy Carey has served as an educator in Maryland for the past 20+ years, having taught or served as an instructional specialist at the elementary, middle, and high-school levels. In her current capacity, she coordinates the Maryland Technology Academy. Carey also works with the Maryland Professional Development Advisory Council and Maryland's Educational Technology Grants (Generation Y, Curriculum Management System, and Learning Management System).

Della Cronin

Vice President for Legislative and Pubic Affairs, Washington Partners, LLC

Della Cronin brings a broad range of education, legislative and public affairs experience to the Washington Partners, LLC team. Cronin has managed corporate and national partnerships, as well as outreach and public awareness efforts for education organizations and advocacy efforts. She has also done fundraising for an education advocacy organization and, after the Higher Education Act reauthorization of 1998, worked with the Department of Education to put together training materials, videoconferences and online training tools for federal student aid professionals. While working for the WorldCom Foundation, she was charged with putting together a communications plan for the MarcoPolo: Internet Content for the Classroom initiative. The new initiative expanded significantly during Cronin's tenure, and she worked with national education associations and partners, state education agencies, administrators and teachers to determine how best to get this resource into the hands of educators nationwide. Della Cronin holds a B.A. in economics, with a minor in political science from Virginia Tech.

Matt Dawson

Director, Midwest Regional Education Laboratory

Daniel Domenech

Executive Director, American Association of School Administrators

Daniel A. Domenech has served as executive director of the American Association of School Administrators since July 2008. A native of Cuba who moved to the United States at the age of nine, Domenech has more than 36 years of experience in public education. Prior to joining AASA, Domenech served as senior vice president of the Urban Advisory Resource for McGraw-Hill Education. Prior to his position at McGraw-Hill, Domenech served for six years as superintendent of the Fairfax County, Va., Public Schools, the 12th largest school system in the nation with 168,000 students. Domenech began his teaching career in New York City, where he taught sixth grade in a predominantly black and Hispanic community in South Jamaica, Queens. He then became program director for the Nassau Board of Cooperative Educational Services, which is the largest intermediate school district in the State of New York. Following this, he was first named superintendent of schools for Long Island's Deer Park Schools and then became superintendent of schools for the ethnically diverse South Huntington School District, also on Long Island - a position he held for 13 years. From 1994 to 1997, he was district superintendent of the Second Supervisory District of Suffolk County and chief executive officer of the Western Suffolk BOCES.

Reginald Felton

Director of Federal Relations, Education Sector

Reggie Felton joined the NSBA staff in 1998 and is responsible for developing and implementing comprehensive legislative strategies and representing the interest of local school boards. His current assignments include NCLB Reauthorization/Regulations, IDEA/Special Education, and Business Operation issues such as FERPA, Labor, etc. Prior to joining NSBA, he was a senior executive with the Department of the Navy. During his career, Reggie held a wide range of assignments, including congressional relations in civilian matters. He was an elected school board member with the Montgomery County Board of Education in Maryland for ten years. Reggie has a Bachelor's degree in Sociology from Howard University, and a Master's degree in Urban Studies from Tulane University.

Skip Fennell

Professor of Education;Past President, National Co, McDaniel College

Dr. Skip Fennell is a mathematics educator and has experience as a classroom teacher, a principal, and a supervisor of instruction. He is currently Professor of Education at McDaniel College and recently completed a 2-year term as President of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Fennel is widely published in professional journals and textbooks related to elementary and middle-grade mathematics education He has played key leadership roles the Research Council for Mathematics Learning, the Mathematical Sciences Education Board, the National Science Foundation, the Maryland Mathematics Commission, the United States National Commission for Mathematics Instruction, and the Association for Mathematics Teacher Educators. Dr. Fennell recently served on the National Mathematics Advisory Panel, chairing the Conceptual Knowledge and Skills Task Group. Fennell has received numerous honors and awards, including Maryland's Outstanding Mathematics Educator McDaniel College's Professor of the Year the Glenn Gilbert National Leadership Award from the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics, and the Carnegie Foundation Professor of the Year - Maryland . He has also been the principal investigator on grants from the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, the Maryland Higher Education Commission, and the ExxonMobil Foundation..

Kathleen Fulton

Director, National Commission on Teaching and America's Futu

Kathleen Fulton has extensive experience as an educational technology consultant for clients including the University of Northern Iowa, ThinkQuest, SoundPrint, the National Education Association, the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory and the Center on Education Policy. Before joining the staff of the Commission, Fulton served as the Project Director for the Congressional Web-Based Education Commission, and was the primary author of their December 2000 report, The Power of the Internet for Learning: Moving from Promise to Practice. Prior to her post at the Web Commission.. Fulton was Associate Director of the Center for Learning and Educational Technology at the University of Maryland. From 1986 until 1995, Fulton was a policy analyst for the U.S. Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (OTA). Fulton is a member of a number of national and international advisory panels, including NCREL's Blue Ribbon Panel on Emerging Technologies and Education. Fulton was recognized by E-School News for their "Impact 30" list of the 30 most influential people in educational technology for 2000.

Federick M. Hess

Resident Scholar and Director of Education Policy , American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

An educator, political scientist, and author, Frederick M. Hess studies a range of K-12 and higher education issues. In addition to his new Education Week blog, he is the author of many influential books including Education Unbound, Common Sense School Reform, Revolution at the Margins, and Spinning Wheels. Hess also serves as executive editor of Education Next, on the Review Board for the Broad Prize in Urban Education, on the Boards of Directors of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers and the American Board for the Certification of Teaching Excellence. A former high school social studies teacher, he has taught at the University of Virginia, the University of Pennsylvania, Georgetown University, Rice University, and Harvard University.

Jennifer House

President, RedRock Reports

Dr. Jennifer House founded RedRock Reports to provide actionable funding insights to companies selling to K-12 education. Jenny provides clients with a strategic vision from both business and education perspectives. Her work is informed by years of experience in district administration as well as industry management. At RedRock Reports she focuses on the impact of funding knowledge on sales, advising clients about funding trends and execution strategies via webinars and in-person presentations. Prior experience includes holding management positions at HP and Apple Computer as well as executive positions at Classroom Connect and Tenth Planet.

Lindsay Hunsicker

Senior Education Policy Advisor, Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee, Ranking Member Mike Enzi (R-WY)

Lindsay Hunsicker is currently the Senior Education Policy Advisor for Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY) on the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee. Her portfolio for the Committee focuses on the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and the Head Start Act, but also includes education research, early childhood education, and child care issues. Prior to coming to the Committee, Hunsicker served as a Senior Legislative Assistant for Senator John Ensign (R-NV) for six years. In that position Hunsicker’s portfolio included education, labor, human services, and pension issues. She began her work on Capitol Hill with Senator Gordon Smith (R-OR). She holds a B.A. from the University of Washington.

Paul Kimmelman

Senior Advisor, Learning Point Associates

Paul L. Kimmelman, Ed.D., is senior advisor in the office of the chief executive officer at Learning Point Associates. He works on federal and state policy and gives presentations on building organizational capacity and legislative and policy issues. Dr. Kimmelman also works at Argosy University as Program Coordinator for Organizational Leadership. In more than 30 years in K–12 education, he has been a teacher, a principal, a superintendent, an adjunct professor and an educational consultant. As superintendent, Dr. Kimmelman helped the Lima, Ohio, district successfully comply with a federal desegregation order. As a superintendent in Illinois, he was president of the First in the World Consortium, which was recognized by President William Clinton and Secretary of Education Richard Riley when they visited Illinois to announce the Consortium’s world-class achievement. Dr. Kimmelman was appointed by former U.S. Secretary of Education Richard Riley to the National Commission on Mathematics and Science Teaching for the 21st Century and served on the Third International Mathematics and Science Study Technical Review Panel. He was appointed by U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige to serve on the Teacher Assistance Corps. Dr. Kimmelman has authored numerous publications. He earned a doctoral degree in Education from the University of Toledo with an emphasis on educational and public administration.

Jacqueline King

Assistant Vice President, Center for Policy Analysis, American Council on Ed

Jacqueline E. King directs ACE's Center for Policy Analysis, which conducts and commissions research on federal and national higher education policy issues of interest to ACE members, policy makers, other higher education associations, and the media. Topics on the Center's agenda include student financial aid, improving college readiness, demographic trends in higher education, and the college presidency. King's particular area of expertise is student financing of higher education and access to higher education. She is the author of numerous articles, reports, and book chapters on these topics, including Gender Equity in Higher Education: 2006. Prior to joining ACE in 1996, she was associate director for policy analysis at the College Board. King holds a doctorate from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Jim Kohlmoos

President, Knowledge Alliance

Jim Kohlmoos started his career in education with the U.S. Teacher Corps in California in 1971 and subsequently served in the Peace Corps in Malaysia for two years. Prior to joining Knowledge Alliance in 2001, he was a vice president for The Implementation Group, a Washington, DC-based government relations firm. From 1993-99, Jim served at the U.S. Department of Education as both a deputy assistant secretary of Elementary and Secondary Education and as a senior adviser. Prior to joining the Department of Education, he was vice president of the Close Up Foundation. Jim is a graduate of Stanford University.

Mary Kusler

Assistant Director, Government Relations, American Association of School Administrators

Mary Kusler has been representing AASA on Capitol Hill since 2000. She is responsible for representing the interests of AASA members before Congress and federal agencies on issues as diverse as IDEA full funding, fighting against vouchers and promoting changes in No Child Left Behind. She also fights for AASA priorities within the budget and appropriations process to ensure the maximum amount of available funding flows to local districts. Additionally, she works on rural education issues for AASA membership, including editing AASA's Rural Update online newsletter and providing technical assistance to districts eligible under the Rural Education Achievement Program. She assists in the staffing of the Program and Products advisory committee of the AASA Executive Committee. Kusler frequently speaks on federal education policy to school leaders across the country.

Moira Lenehan-Razzuri

Legislative Assistant, Office of U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (OH)

Moira Lenehan-Razzuri, Legislative Assistant, Office or Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH). She previously was Legislative Assistant for Representative Ruben Hinojosa (D-TX). Moira has extensive public policy experience in the field of education as well as working with non-profit organizations including the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities, the National Association for Migrant Education, and the Hispanic Education Coalition. She received her bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University. Moira serves as the Senator's committee liaison on all education and workforce issues. In addition to education and labor issues, Moira also covers immigration, welfare reform, childcare, and civil rights.

Douglas Levin

Executive Director, State Educational Technology Directors Association

Doug Levin is the Executive Director of the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA). In this position, Doug works with state educational technology directors in all 50 states and DC and works with policy makers in other educational organizations, the U.S. Department of Education, and on Capitol Hill. SETDA provides national leadership on educational technology, ensures members have meaningful professional development opportunities, and engages in partnerships with the public and private sector to collaborate on how educational technology supports teaching and learning. Doug has nearly 20 years of Washington, DC-based education policy and research experience gained through a variety of prominent roles in the private and non-profit sectors. He formerly served as Deputy Executive Director of the National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE) and prior to that as Senior Director of Education Policy at Cable in the Classroom, the cable industry's national education foundation. Levin also served as a principal research analyst with the American Institutes for Research. While there, he directed education research studies, evaluations, and policy initiatives on a wide variety of topics, including on educational technology, teacher quality, student assessment, services for students with disabilities, and federal/foundation program planning and administration. Doug holds a Master of Arts degree in Sociology from George Washington University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the College of William and Mary.

Richard Long

Executive Director , National Association of State Title I Directors

Rich Long is Executive Director of tthe State Title I Directors Association and Director of Government Relations for the International Reading Association. Prior, Rich Long served on the staff of Congressman James W. Symington and worked as Coordinator of Multidisciplinary Interventions at the George Washington University (GWU) Reading Center. Long’s Doctorate is from the George Washington University and was a consultant for USA TODAY, the World Health Organization, and several U.S. government agencies and education groups. Currently he writes on education public policy, and speaks before groups on trends in education policy and how to adapt to an ever changing policy environment.

Sarah Mead

Senior Research Fellow, Education Policy Program, New America Foundation

Sara Mead conducts research and writes about early childhood, elementary, and secondary education. Her work has been featured in The Washington Post and USA Today, and on CBS and ABC News. Before joining New America, Mead was a senior policy analyst with Education Sector, where she focused on issues related to early childhood education and to increasing choice and diversity in public education. She has also worked for the Progressive Policy Institute, where she remains a nonresident fellow, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Gore 2000 presidential campaign. Ms. Mead serves on the boards of Democrats for Education Reform and the Apple Tree Early Learning Public Charter School in Washington, D.C. The daughter, granddaughter, and sister of public school educators, she holds a bachelor's degree in public policy from Vanderbilt University.

Chris Minnich

Senior Membership Director, Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO)

Chris Minnich serves as the Senior Membership Director at the Council of Chief State School Officers ("CCSSO"). In this role, he manages the communications, advocacy and membership functions of the Council. This includes advocating on behalf of the state chiefs and generating collective state action around key education reform areas. Prior to his current role at CCSSO, he led the standards and assessment work at CCSSO, where they are currently working on implementing common standards across states. Prior to CCSSO, Chris was with Pearson Assessment, working on online assessment programs and projects to support teachers through professional development in their use of data to improve instruction. Chris was the Director of the Assessment Academy project which provided information regarding assessment practices to different users across the world. Before Pearson, Chris worked at the Oregon Department of Education in the assessment office. He was responsible for implementing the online high-stakes assessment across the entire state.

Anne Moore

Associate VP for Learning Technologies and Directo, Virginia Tech University

As head of the Office of Information Technology's Learning Technologies division, she works to coordinate programs such as the Faculty Development Institute, and the Graduate Education Development Institute to contribute to university initiatives like the Math Emporium (a 24 X 7 advanced learning community in mathematics); and to assist rural and urban communities with integrating technology in teaching Moore coordinates Virginia Tech Center for Innovation in Learning. The center annually sponsors the XCaliber Award to recognize and celebrate outstanding contributions in integrating technology in learning activities. She manages the Executive Forum in Information Technology,a seminar series designed to encourage public discussion on current technology. Moore was the founding chair of the Electronic Campus of Virginia and currently serves as its treasurer.. She has also participated in the State Council of Higher Education Moore was associate director for administration at the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia. She also served as staff director of Virginia Commission on the University of the 21st Century and Commission on the Future of Higher Education. She has also authored numerous articles, book chapters and policy papers.

Melanie Pritchett

Director, Education Policy, CompassLearning

Torrance Robinson

Founder & President, eChalk, Inc.

Andrew Rotherham

Co-Founder and Partner, Bellwether Education Partners

Andrew J. Rotherham is a co-founder and partner at Bellwether Education Partners, a non-profit organization working to improve educational outcomes for low-income students. Rotherham leads Bellwether’s thought leadership, idea generation, and policy analysis work. He also writes a weekly column on education for TIME.com as well as the blog Eduwonk.com and is co-publisher of “Education Insider” a federal policy research tool produced by Whiteboard Advisors. Rotherham previously served at the White House as Special Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy during the Clinton administration and is a former member of the Virginia Board of Education. In addition to Bellwether, Rotherham has founded or co-founded two other influential education reform organizations including Education Sector and served on the boards of several other successful education start-ups. Rotherham is the author or co-author of more than 125 articles, book chapters, papers, and op-eds about education policy and politics and is the author or editor of four books on education policy. He is a senior fellow at the Center for Reinventing Public Education and also at the PostPartisan Foundation. He serves on advisory boards and committees for a variety of organizations including The Broad Foundation, Education Pioneers, and the National Governors Association. He is on the board of directors for the Indianapolis Mind Trust and the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia and serves on the Visiting Committee for the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Angela Sangeorge

Project Director, The Reading First Technical Assi, RMC Research Corporation

Angela Sangeorge oversees the delivery of all technical assistance to states for Reading First. Prior to coming to RMC Research, Angela recently served as Director of the Office of Literacy at the Ohio Department of Education located in Columbus, Ohio. In this role Angela served as supervisor for statewide reading policies and initiatives, including oversight of state and federal literacy budgets including Reading First and Title III and leadership for technical assistance services, professional development, and data analysis to assist LEAs. In addition she designed and implemented a state approach to intervention and support for low performing schools – Pre-K though grade 12. This professional development initiative involved approximately 200 urban, suburban and rural schools across the state of Ohio. Angela previously served as a visiting instructor in the Office of Literacy and Learning at the Ohio State University, Program Director for the Annenberg Acceleration early literacy grant to the School District of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, Reading/Language Arts Supervisor for the Connecticut State Department of Education, and as a teacher, reading supervisor, coordinator for special education, curriculum leader, as well as, a consultant for numerous districts in Connecticut. She was co-author of the Early Language and Literacy Classroom Observation (ELLCO) published by Brookes Publishing Company.

Ross Santy

Director of Performance Information Management Ser, Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Developm

Ross Santy leads the U.S. Department of Education's EDFacts initiative, charged with consolidation and modernization of the collection of K-12 academic and program performance informaiton from State Education Agencies. Mr. Santy came to the Department in 2005 after serving four years as the co-founder and head of information and operations at Just for the Kids - California, a non-profit organization that maintains and hosts a set of online reports and tools to help school leaders make sense of educational performance data. While at Just for the Kids—California, Mr. Santy designed and built the largest data repository of longitudinally linked student level academic performance information in the state.
Mr. Santy has also served as Director, Resources and Development Office at the Los Angeles County Office of Education; Director, Instructional Technology at the Browning School in New York and as a high school history teacher in New Jersey. Mr. Santy earned a Master's in Educational Technology from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and an undergraduate degree in Educational Psychology from Princeton University. He is also proficient in computer systems networking and data storage.

Farimah Schuerman

Managing Partner, Academic Business Advisors, LLC

Farimah Schuerman is a specialist in the business of educational technology. During her career, she has helped hundreds of education companies bring new products to market while ensuring that product quality is maintained at the highest level. Farimah has provided guidance in the areas of sales, marketing, product development, business development and many other pivotal areas. Farimah has been active within SIIA's Education Division the past few years; serving on the Education Board, as co-chair of the Postsecondary Committee and on the Steering Committee for the Ed Tech Business Forum and the Ed Tech Industry Summit, at which she has presented in years past.

Linda Slakey

Director, Division of Undergraduate Education, National Science Foundation (NSF)

Dr. Slakey is a graduate of Siena Heights College (B.S. in Chemistry), and the University of Michigan (Ph.D. in Biochemistry.) She did postdoctoral research at the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Slakey was appointed to the faculty of the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1973. Her scientific work focused on lipid metabolism and vascular biology, and was funded by the National Institutes of Health, the American Heart Association, and the National Science Foundation. She was Head of the Department of Biochemistry from 1986 until 1991, and Dean of the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (NSM) from 1993 until 2000. In September of 2000, she was appointed Dean of Commonwealth College, the honors college of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. As Dean of NSM and of Commonwealth College she was active in supporting teaching and learning initiatives throughout the University, with particular attention to engaging undergraduate students in research, to faculty development activities that promote the transition from lecturing to more engaged pedagogies, and to the support of research on how students learn. She joined the National Science Foundation in November of 2006 as Director of the Division of Undergraduate Education.

Nancy Smith

Public Relations Dept., Octel Communications Corp.

Dr. Smith oversees the operations of the Data Quality Campaign (DQC). Dr. Smith’s expertise is in statewide longitudinal data systems and program evaluation. Previously at NCEA, Nancy was responsible for research and development activities for the JFTK school reports and served as the director of programming and technology at Just for the Kids/NCEA. Prior to NCEA, Dr. Smith was employed at the Texas Education Agency. She serves on various national panels and technical committees related to statewide longitudinal data systems. She received her doctorate in Educational Psychology from The University of Texas at Austin in 1997 with an emphasis in Statistics, Psychometrics, and Program Evaluation.