Grover J. "Russ" Whitehurst

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Director, Brown Center on Education Policy | Senior Fellow, Governance Studies | The Herman and George R. Brown Chair

Russ Whitehurst speaks at an event moderated by Jackie Calmes of the New York Times

Russ Whitehurst, the former director of the Institute of Education Sciences within the U.S. Department of Education, is an expert on reading, teacher quality, student assessment, learning and instruction, education technology, and preschool programs. | View Full Bio

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Expertise

  • Program evaluation
  • teacher quality
  • preschools
  • national and international student assessments
  • reading instruction
  • education technology
  •  education data systems

Experience

Current Positions

  • Senior Fellow and Director of the Brown Center on Education Policy, Brookings Institution

Past Positions

  • Director, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education (2002–08)
  • U.S. Commissioner of Education Statistics (Acting, 2005)
  • Assistant Secretary for Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education (2001–02)
  • promotion through the ranks from Assistant Professor to Leading Professor of Psychology, State University of New York at Stony Brook
  • Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology, University of New South Wales
  • Vice-President for Academic Affairs, Merrill-Palmer Institute
  • Professor of Pediatrics, State University of New York at Stony Brook
  • Chair, Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Stony Brook

Education

  • B.A., East Carolina University, Psychology (Outstanding Senior Award), 1966
  • M.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Clinical Psychology, 1968
  • Ph.D., Experimental Child Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1970.

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"It’s not a marketplace if parents can’t really shop and compare and make a rational choice."

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