Expertise
Program evaluation; teacher quality; preschools; national and international student assessments; reading instruction; education technology; education data systems
Background
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
Expert Awards
Microsoft Innovators in Higher Education Award, 1996; Winner, The SUNY Great Web Page Award, Educational Technology Category, 1996; Featured Researcher, Division on Developmental Psychology, American Psychological Association Convention, Chicago, 1997; Outstanding Alumni Award, East Carolina University, 1999; Comeback Alumni Award, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 2004; Northwestern University Institute for Policy Research Award for contributions to the advancement of evidence-based policy making, 2004; Edward L. Meyen Distinguished Lecture Award, University of Kansas, 2007; Peter H. Rossi Award of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management for contributions to program evaluation, 2008.
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.