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Appendix D
Biographical Sketches of
Committee Members
Christopher Edley, Jr. (Cochair) is dean and professor of law at the Uni-
versity of California, Berkeley, School of Law and faculty codirector of
the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity and Diversity,
a multidisciplinary think tank. Previously, he was a professor at Harvard
Law School, where he was founding codirector of The Harvard Civil Rights
Project. His areas of special interest are administrative law, education policy,
and race. His public service includes a 6-year term as a member of the
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, an assistant director of the White House
domestic policy staff during the Carter Administration, and associate direc-
tor of the Office of Management and Budget during the Clinton Administra-
tion. He also served as a special counsel to President Clinton and as a senior
adviser on the President’s race initiative. He has also served on a national
nonpartisan commission created to conduct an independent review of the
No Child Left Behind Act. He is a trustee of the Russell Sage Foundation
and of the Century Foundation, and a fellow of the National Academy of
Public Administration, the Council of Foreign Relations, the American Law
Institute, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received a
B.A. in mathematics and economics from Swarthmore College and a J.D.
and a master of public policy degree from Harvard’s Law School and JFK
School of Government, respectively.
Robert M. Hauser (Cochair) is executive director of the Division of Behav-
ioral and Social Sciences and Education at the National Research Council
(NRC). He is also Vilas Research Professor, Emeritus, at the University of
Wisconsin, Madison, where he has directed the Center for Demography
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and Ecology and the Institute for Research on Poverty. He has worked on
the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study since 1969 and directed it since 1980.
His current research interests include trends in educational progression and
social mobility in the United States among racial and ethnic groups, the
uses of educational assessment as a policy tool, the effects of families on
social and economic inequality, changes in socioeconomic standing, health,
and well-being across the life course. He has contributed to statistical
methods for discrete multivariate analysis and structural equation models
and to methods for the measurement of social and economic standing.
He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American
Philosophical Society, and he is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences, the American Statistical Association, and the American Asso-
ciation for the Advancement of Science. At the NRC, he has served on the
Committee on National Statistics, the Division of Behavioral and Social
Sciences and Education, the Board on Testing and Assessment and numer-
ous NRC research panels. He recently served on the secretary of educa-
tion’s task force on the measurement of high school dropout rates. He has
a B.A. in economics from the University of Chicago and M.A. and Ph.D.
degrees in sociology from the University of Michigan.
Beatrice F. Birman is a managing research scientist in the Education,
Human Development and Workforce Program of the American Institutes
for Research. Previously, she served as assistant director of education and
employment issues for the U.S. Government Accountability Office, held
a number of positions in the U.S. Department of Education, and taught
program evaluation and research methods at George Washington Univer-
sity and Stanford University, respectively. The major focus of her work is
evaluation of education programs, with experience in federal education
policy, programs for students placed at risk, school reform, and teachers’
professional development. She has conducted national evaluations of the
Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I and the Eisenhower Profes-
sional Development Program (for mathematics and science teachers), has
studied district and school reform efforts aimed at reducing gaps in student
outcomes, and has evaluated policy initiatives related to charter schools
and the uses of educational technologies. She holds an M.A. in counseling
psychology, an M.A. in sociology, and a Ph.D. in the sociology of educa-
tion, all from Stanford University.
Carl A. Cohn is a clinical professor and codirector of the Urban Leader-
ship Program at Claremont Graduate University and president of Urban
School Imagineers, an educational consulting firm. Previously he served as
superintendent of schools in the San Diego Unified School District, and he
earlier served in that position for the Long Beach Unified School District,
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both in California. He has also held positions as a clinical professor at the
University of Southern California and a federal court monitor for the spe-
cial education consent decree in the Los Angeles school system. His tenure
in Long Beach culminated with his winning the McGraw Prize in 2002 and
the district winning the Broad Prize in 2003. He has worked as a faculty
advisor for both the Broad Superintendents Academy and the Harvard
Urban Superintendents Program, and he currently serves on the boards of
the American College Testing, Inc., the Freedom Writers Foundation, the
Center for Reform of School Systems, and EdSource. He holds a B.A. in
philosophy from St. John’s College, an M.A. in counseling from Chapman
University, and an Ed.D. in administrative and policy studies from the Uni-
versity of California, Los Angeles.
Leslie T. Fenwick is the dean of the Howard University School of Educa-
tion and a tenured professor of educational policy. She has nearly 20 years
of experience in higher education, public policy, philanthropy, and urban
PK-12 schools. Dr. Fenwick held consecutive appointments at Harvard Uni-
versity as a visiting scholar in education and a visiting fellow prior to serv-
ing as a program officer at the Southern Education Foundation. Fenwick’s
commentary articles have appeared in Education Week and her published
research focuses on superintendency and principalship, educational equity
(particularly as it relates to race) and the minority teacher pipeline, and
the link between school reform and community revitalization. A former
elementary and junior high school teacher, principal and legislative aide
on school reform for the State of Ohio Senate, Fenwick earned a B.S. de-
gree in education from the Curry School of Education at the University of
Virginia and a Ph.D. in educational policy and leadership from The Ohio
State University. Dr. Fenwick is a member of the National Advisory Board
for the George Lucas Educational Foundation and also serves on the boards
of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education and the
Council of Academic Deans from Research Education Institutions.
Michael J. Feuer is the dean at the Graduate School of Education and
Human Development at George Washington University. Previously, he served
as the executive director of the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences
and Education of the National Research Council (NRC) of the National
Academies, where he was responsible for a broad portfolio of studies and
other activities aimed at improved economic, social, and education policy
making. He was the first director of the NRC’s Center for Education and
the founding director of the Board on Testing and Assessment. Prior to his
work at the NRC, he was a senior analyst and project director at the Office
of Technology Assessment. He has been the Burton and Inglis Lecturer at
Harvard University. He is a member of the National Academy of Educa-
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tion. He holds a B.A. (magna cum laude) from Queens College of the City
University of New York and an M.A. from the Wharton School and a Ph.D.
in public policy, both from the University of Pennsylvania.
Jon Fullerton is the executive director of the Center for Education Policy
Research at Harvard University. Previously, he served as the director of
budget and financial policy for the Board of Education of the Los Angeles
Unified School District. In this capacity, he provided independent evaluations
of district reforms and helped to ensure that the district’s budget was aligned
with board priorities. Other positions—reflecting his broad interests in de-
signing and implementing organizational change—include serving as vice
president of strategy, evaluation, research, and policy at the Urban Educa-
tion Partnership in Los Angeles and at as a strategy consultant at McKinsey
& Company, in both the education and private sectors. He holds a Ph.D.
in government and an A.B. in social studies, both from Harvard University.
Fernando A. Guerra is director of health for the San Antonio Metropolitan
Health District and a long-time practicing pediatrician. He is also a clinical
professor of pediatrics at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San
Antonio and an adjunct professor in public health at the Air Force School of
Aerospace Medicine at Brooks Air Force Base and at the University of Texas
School of Public Health, Houston. He has served on the federal advisory
committees for immunization practices, and vaccines, infant mortality, as well
as the Federal Advisory Committee for the National Children’s Study. He is
currently serving on the board of trustees of the Urban Institute, as chair-
man of the board of the Children’s Environmental Health Institute, and as a
member of the Committee on Biomedical Ethics for the March of Dimes. He
is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and a member of the New
York Academy of Medicine, the Texas Academy of Medicine, Science, and
Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine, and he was a founding scholar of
the Public Health Leadership Institute. He holds a B.A. from the University of
Texas, Austin, an M.D. the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston;
and an M.P.H. from the Harvard School of Public Health.
Jonathan Gueverra serves as the chief executive officer of the Community
College of the District of Columbia. Previously he was the provost for
the Alexandria Campus of Northern Virginia Community College, one
of the largest community colleges in the country. He also continues to work
with doctoral students at Lesley University and Morgan State University,
where he has taught undergraduate courses in accounting, management,
and human resources, as well as graduate courses in leadership and strategic
management. He has served on numerous boards, including those of the
Massachusetts Business Educators Association, New England Educational
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Assessment Network, Lesley University, ITT Technical Institute, and the
Commonwealth Soccer Officials Association. Has has also implemented
and coordinated Volunteer Income Tax Assistance programs to help low-
income, elderly, and non-native English speakers. He has received a lifetime
achievement award for his role in developing service learning programs at
Wentworth Institute of Technology. He holds a B.A. from Providence Col-
lege and an M.B.A. and an Ed.D. from the University of Massachusetts.
Jonathan Guryan is an associate professor of human development and
social policy and of economics, and a faculty fellow with the Institute for
Policy Research at Northwestern University. He is also a faculty research
fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and serves as a re-
search consultant for the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Previously, he
was on the faculty of the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.
His work spans various topics related to labor markets, education policy,
and social interaction. His research interests include the causes and con-
sequences of racial inequality, the causes of truancy and school dropout
decisions, the labor market for teachers, social interactions in the work-
place, occupational licensure, and lottery gambling. He also studies race
and discrimination in the labor market and in education. He is a recipient
of the John T. Dunlop Outstanding Scholar Award from the Labor and
Employment Relations Association. He received his A.B. in economics from
Princeton University and his Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
Lorraine McDonnell is a professor of political science at the University of
California, Santa Barbara. Her research has focused on the design and im-
plementation of K-12 education policies and their effects on school practice.
In recent studies, she examined the politics of student testing, particularly
the curricular and political values underlying state assessment policies. Her
publications have focused on various aspects of education policy and poli-
tics, including teacher unions, the education of immigrant students, and the
role of citizen deliberation. McDonnell served for 7 years on the National
Research Council’s (NRC’s) Board on Testing and Assessment, and is cur-
rently a member of the NRC’s advisory committee for the Division of
Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education. She was the 2008-2009
president of the American Educational Research Association and is a mem-
ber of the National Academy of Education. She is also national associate
of the National Academy of Sciences. She has a Ph.D. in political science
from Stanford University.
C. Kent McGuire recently became president and chief executive officer of the
Southern Education Foundation. Previously, he was the dean of the College
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of Education at Temple University and a professor in the university’s Educa-
tional Administration Program in the Department of Educational Leadership
and Policy Studies. Before working at Temple, he was senior vice president
at MDRC, where his responsibilities included leadership of the education,
children, and youth division. In the Clinton Administration, he served as
assistant secretary of education, the senior officer for the department’s re-
search and development agency. He also has served as education program
officer for the Pew Charitable Trusts and education program director for
the Eli Lilly Endowment, as well as assistant professor at the University of
Colorado and senior policy analyst for the Education Commission of the
States. His current research interests focus on education administration and
policy and organizational change. He holds a B.A. in economics from the
University of Michigan, an M.A. in education administration and policy
from Columbia University Teachers College, and a Ph.D. in public adminis-
tration from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Maxine Singer is president emeritus of the Carnegie Institution of Washing-
ton. She previously held positions at the National Institutes of Health and
the National Cancer Institute, where she remains as a scientist emeritus. At
the Carnegie Institution, she established the Carnegie Academy for Science
Education whose goal is to enhance learning of science and mathematics for
DC public school teachers and students. Her work has ranged over several
areas of nucleic acid biochemistry and molecular biology. She was one of
the organizers of the Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA. She has
been a member of the board of directors of Johnson & Johnson, a trustee of
the Yale University Corporation, and a director of the Whitehead Institute.
She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a recipient of its
public welfare medal. She is also a member of the Pontifical Academy of
Sciences. Her several awards for public service include the Distinguished
Presidential Rank Award, and the National Medal of Science, the nation’s
highest scientific honor She has received honorary degrees from, among
others, Brandeis University, Dartmouth College, Williams College, New
York University, Swarthmore College, Harvard University, and Yale Univer-
sity. She holds an A.B. (with high honors) from Swarthmore College and a
Ph.D. in biochemistry from Yale University.
William F. Tate IV is the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University
Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. He also
directs the Center for the Study of Regional Competitiveness in Science and
Technology and serves as chair of the Department of Education at the uni-
versity, where he holds academic and research appointments in the Center
for Applied Statistics, Institute for Public Health, urban studies, and medi-
cal education. He is a past president of the American Educational Research
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Association. He has served as a scholar in residence and as assistant super-
intendent for mathematics and science in the Dallas Independent School
District. He has concentrated his research efforts in four areas: (1) social
determinants of mathematics, engineering, technology, and science attain-
ment and disparities; (2) adolescent development and health; (3) political
economy of urban metropolitan regions; and (4) leadership in public-
private human services alliances and research collaborations. He received
his B.S. in economics from Northern Illinois University, his M.A.T. from the
University of Texas, Dallas, and his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland.
He is completing postdoctoral training in psychiatric epidemiology in the
Department of Psychiatry at the Washington University Medical School.
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