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Anne L. Bryant, Ed.D.
Executive Director
National School Boards Association
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Anne L. Bryant, as executive director of the National School
Boards Association, Anne L. Bryant heads a federation of state
and territorial organizations dedicated to advancing education
through citizen governance of public schools. The federation
reaches over 14,700 school districts involving 95,000 school
board members. She directs a staff of 130 people in Alexandria,
Virginia, implementing policies to help the state associations
and local school boards provide leadership for today’s
children in order to develop tomorrow’s leaders.
Prior to joining NSBA in July 1996, Bryant was executive
director of the American Association of University Women,
a national organization advancing equity for women and girls
in education, the workplace, and the family. From 1974 to
1986, she was vice president of the Professional Education
Division of P.M. Haeger & Associates, a Chicago association
management firm. She holds an Ed.D. degree from the University
of Massachusetts and a B.A. from Simmons College
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Marshall “Mike” Smith
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
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Marshall “Mike” S. Smith has been the program
director for education at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
in Menlo Park, California since 2001. Prior to that, he was
Acting Deputy Secretary and Under Secretary for Education in
the Clinton Administration. During the Carter Administration,
he was Chief of Staff to the Secretary for Education and Assistant
Commissioner for Policy Studies in the Office of Education.
While not in government, he was at different times a Professor
at Harvard, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and Stanford.
At Stanford, he was also the Dean of the School of Education. |
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| Charles Abelmann
The World Bank
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Charles Abelmann is senior education specialist at the World
Bank in the East Asia Human Development Unit. He currently oversees
the Bank's education program in China and Mongolia. From 2001-2004,
he was on external service from the World Bank and served as
the school principal at Janney Elementary School, a DC Public
School. In 2004, the school was recognized as a Blue Ribbon
School by the US Department of Education. At the Bank, he has
worked on projects and analytical work related to Uganda, Zimbabwe,
Tanzania, Latvia, Thailand, Malaysia, Korea, Indonesia and the
Solomon Islands. His research interests relate to school accountability
and how policy can either help or hinder improvements in teaching
and learning at the classroom level. Prior to joining the World
Bank, he was a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education
and a research manager for the Consortium for Policy Research
in Education. He holds a A.B. from Duke University and a Masters
and Doctoral Degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
He also has extensive professional experience working on education
policy issues in the United States. He is married to Emiliana
Vegas and the father of two boys. |
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| Tracy Gray
American Institutes for Research
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Tracy Gray, Ph.D., is a nationally recognized expert in education
and technology implementation and has led numerous projects
in the U.S. and internationally, examining the impact of technology
on educational achievement. She has published and lectured widely
on issues related to the integration of emerging technologies
into the classroom and after-school programs. A recent publication
is Teacher Learning Online: Improving the Teaching of Mathematics
Through Better Professional Development for the U.S. Department
of Education. She currently serves as the director of the National
Center for Technology Innovation (NCTI), a Center working to
improve learning opportunities for students with disabilities
by fostering technology innovation.
Before working at AIR, Dr. Gray was vice president for youth
services at the Morino Institute and was responsible for the
design and implementation of the Youth Development Collaborative
(YDC). That effort sought to understand the complexities of
integrating technology into schools and community-based organizations
nationwide. Dr. Gray also was the deputy executive director
and chief operating officer for the Corporation for National
Service that enabled more than 50,000 corps members to work
in 1,500 programs throughout the United States. Dr. Gray holds
a Ph.D. and M.A. in education and psychology from Stanford University.
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| Alan Ruby
The Atlantic Philanthropic Service Company
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Alan Ruby is Senior Vice President, Programs at The Atlantic
Philanthropies which has approximately $3.8 billion in assets
and whose future global grantmaking is expected to be on the
order of $350 million per year. Mr. Ruby is currently responsible
for the Disadvantaged Children and Youth Program, the Ageing
Program and the Health of Populations Program.
For the last 4 years he has been part of the senior management
team that has redirected the Philanthropies' strategic direction,
built a team culture and dropped its 20 year policy of anonymous
grant making. He has been integral in designing and implementing
a new organizational structure of global teams which came
into effect in January 2004 as the Philanthropies begin the
process of spending its total endowment over the next 12 to
15 years.
Prior to joining The Atlantic Philanthropies Mr. Ruby was
Director of the Human Development Sector for the East Asia
Region of the World Bank. He directed the World Bank’s
programs in education, health, and social insurance involving
loans and credits in 12 countries including China, Vietnam
and Indonesia. Mr. Ruby served for over six years as Deputy
Secretary in the Australian Department of Employment, Education,
Training and Youth Affairs, where he was responsible for primary
and secondary education, higher education, and vocational
education and training. For many years he was a participant
and leader in programs of the Organization for Economic Cooperation
and Development (OECD) and other international agencies and
commissions. Early in his career he was a teacher and an official
in the state government of New South Wales. His undergraduate
degree is from the University of Sydney and he was a Commonwealth
Relations Trust Fellow at the University of London.
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| Jennifer Manise
Council of Chief State School Officers
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Jennifer Manise is a Project Director with the Leadership
and Professional Development Division of CCSSO. Manise directs
International Education, the NAEP Information Network, and manages
special projects for the division. She represents CCSSO on the
U.S. Secretary of Education’s Science and Math Initiative
and works closely with the Education Data Partnership. During
her eight years at the Council, she has produced several reports
and worked with many agencies including state education agencies,
federal agencies, and federal contractors. Manise also coordinated
a 12-state collaborative addressing the issues of Accountability
and Reporting in State Education Systems and has led professional
development opportunities for Assessment Directors and Chief
State School Officers in the area of accountability systems.
Prior to working at CCSSO, Manise was at the American Society
for Microbiology and consulted with the Infectious Diseases
Society of America. Manise received her B.S. in Business Finance
from Liberty University and resides in Falls Church, VA. |
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| Vivien Stewart
Vice President of Education
Asia Society
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Vivien Stewart was appointed Vice President, Education at
the Asia Society in July 2001. She is responsible for Asia Society’s
work with state and national policymakers to promote the study
of Asia and other world regions and cultures in America’s
schools. Asia Society also provides high-quality curriculum
materials, websites (AskAsia.org)
and professional development opportunities for teachers and
schools.
Ms. Stewart has had a long involvement with education and youth
affairs. Over the course of a distinguished career at Carnegie
Corporation of New York, she has been a leader in shaping reform
agendas in early childhood education, urban school reform, teaching
as a profession, adolescent development and higher education.
In addition to grant-making, she was responsible for the management
of a number of Carnegie task forces, which produced influential
reports such as Turning Points, A Matter of Time, and Starting
Points. Ms. Stewart serves as a trustee of the National Center
on Education and the Economy, and the Longview Foundation for
Education in International Understanding and World Affairs.
She is also on the steering committee of the US-China E-Language
Learning Project and is Senior Education Advisor to the Refugee
Education Trust in Geneva. She has also been Senior Policy Advisor
to the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for
Children and Armed Conflict, and a Visiting Scholar at Teachers
College, Columbia University, New York. She received her BA
and M.Phil degrees from Oxford University.
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