Expertise
Education policy; education reform; K-12 schools
Background
Past Positions
Director of the Brown Center on Education Policy, Brookings Institution; Associate Professor of Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Teacher, Pershing School, San Juan Unified School District, Orangevale, California
Education
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1992; M.A., California State University at Sacramento, 1984; B.A., University of California at Berkeley, 1975
"Students don't know how to translate fractions into decimals or into percentages and they can't locate fractions on a number line."