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Governor Hunt is a nationally recognized leader who has dedicated years
to improving education in his home state of North Carolina as well as
across the country. Governor Hunt has long been at the forefront of
education reform in the United States, promoting excellence in teaching
and learning. As North Carolina Governor for a historic four terms,
he put into place one of the nation’s most rigorous approaches
to measuring student performance and providing assistance to turn around
failing schools. In 1985, he co-chaired with David Hamburg the “Committee
of 50,” which led to the Carnegie Forum on Education and the Economy
and eventually, to the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.
He served in that capacity for ten years, developing standards for what
accomplished teachers in America need to know, and be able to do, as
well as assessments to “Board certify” them. He has served
as chairman of the National Education Goals Panel and vice chairman
of the board of Achieve, Inc.
Now a partner in the law firm of Womble Carlyle
Sandridge and Rice, Governor Hunt has maintained his commitment to education.
He chairs the board of the James B. Hunt, Jr. Institute for Educational
Leadership and Policy, established in 2001 to work with current and
emerging political, business, and education leaders on a national level
to improve public education. In addition, he serves as the chairman
of the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future, and
chairman of the National Center on Public Policy and Higher Education
in San Jose, California.
Governor Hunt has been the recipient of numerous
awards for his contributions to education in the U.S. These include
the Education Commission of the States “James B. Conant Award;”
The Horace Mann League’s “Friend of Education Award;”
The Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education; The Children’s Defense
Fund Award; The National State Board of Education’s “Policy
Leader of the Year Award;” and the National Education Association’s
“Friend of Education Award.”
Walter G. Amprey has played an active role in both the Baltimore County
and Baltimore City Public School System, holding a variety of positions
including his appointment as Superintendent of Public Instruction for
Baltimore City Public Schools in August of 1991. He was honored as Maryland
Superintendent of the Year for the 1994-95 school year. He also served
as the 1995-96 president of the Large City Schools Superintendents of
the U.S. and Canada.
In July of 1997, Dr. Amprey resigned from Baltimore
City Public Schools to take a position as National Vice President for
Urban Education with the National School Conference Institute, an organization
that endeavors to use technology to provide Comprehensive Professional
Development to school districts nationwide.
In March 1999, Dr. Amprey accepted a position as
Senior Vice President of Urban Education with Bingwa Educational Software
in Atlanta, Georgia.
In May of 2000, Dr. Amprey established his own Educational
Consulting Firm named for his daughters Kimberly and Keli. The KimKeli
Group endeavors to assist school districts around the nation in their
efforts to find greater financial efficiencies and to find instructional
programs that are proven to be effective.
In July of 2000, Amprey served as facilitator with
Reverend Jesse Jackson at the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition’s Public
Policy Education Conference, “Closing the Gap,” in Chicago,
Illinois.
Judy Bornstein is the Chief Financial Officer of McCown DeLeeuw and
Company, a private equity investment firm with $1.2 Billion of capital
under management. Previously, Ms. Bornstein was the CFO of InterDimensions
and prior to that, Director of National Operations for SmartRoute Systems.
Ms. Bornstein currently serves on a number of corporate and not-for-profit
boards. She began her career as a 5th and 6th grade teacher and math
specialist.
Cornelia Brunner has been involved in the research, production, and
teaching of educational technology in a variety of subject areas for
more than thirty years. In addition to conducting research projects
about the relationship between learning, teaching, and technology, she
has designed and implemented educational materials incorporating technologies
to support inquiry-based learning and teaching in science, social studies,
media literacy, and the arts. She has worked extensively with staff
and students in a variety of school environments on curriculum development
projects, teacher support and training, and informal education. She
has taught experimental courses at Bank Street College and the Media
Workshop New York, in which teachers are introduced to new technologies,
learn how to integrate technology into their curriculum, and learn to
use multimedia authoring tools to design their own educational programs.
Dr. Brunner has also been an industry consultant for the design of educational
and entertainment products for children of all ages since 1970.
Herbert Ginsburg is the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Psychology and
Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. His research interests
include the development of mathematical thinking (with particular attention
to young children and disadvantaged populations) and the assessment
of cognitive function. He has developed mathematics curricula for young
children, tests of mathematical thinking, and video workshops to enhance
teachers’ understanding of students’ learning of mathematics.
Currently he is exploring how computer technology can be used to help
teachers assess children's mathematical knowledge. He has been teaching
a graduate course on the psychology of mathematics education for many
years and has published widely in this area.
David Hawk is the Director of Energy Natural Resources with the J.R.
Simplot Company in Boise, Idaho. He formerly held the position of Chairman
of the Board of Directors for Remington Oil and Gas Company, a publicly
traded Oil and Gas exploration and production company. Previously, he
was Exploration Geologist with Atlantic Richfield and Tenneco; Vice
President with IGC Production Company; Vice President with Sundance
Oil Company; and Senior Vice President with Horn Resources Corporation.
Hawk has an extensive record providing testimony to Canadian and U.S.
federal and state regulatory bodies on natural gas pricing, pipeline
and utility rate making and avoided cost (PURPA) issues. He has been
a frequent lecturer and keynoter at a variety of conferences on renewable
and alternative energy sources along with traditional sources and conservation
and efficiency
Chris Heegard has a BS and MS degree from the University of Massachusetts
and a Ph.D. degree from Stanford University; all in Electrical Engineering.
For 19 years he was a Professor at Cornell University. For over 25 years
Dr. Heegard has been an active member of the consulting community. He
is the founder and chief scientist for Native Intelligence, a digital
communications company. Dr. Heegard was the CEO and a founder of Alantro
Communications, now a part of Texas Instruments. Recently, Chris has
become involved in ranching in Cottage Grove, Oregon; he is also an
independent investor and consultant.
Margaret Honey is Director of the Center for Children and Technology
and a Vice President of CCT’s parent organization, the Education
Development Center. CCT is a leading research and development organization
advancing understanding of the potential educational impact of new information
and communications technologies.
Paul Horwitz is a physicist with broad interests in the application
of technology to science and mathematics education. In 1984, he was
Principal Investigator on the ThinkerTools Project, sponsored by the
National Science Foundation, which designed a curriculum and associated
software that successfully taught the elements of Newtonian physics
to students at the sixth grade level. In 1992, a simulated "Relativity
Laboratory" that he designed won two EDUCOM Higher Education Software
Awards, one for Best Natural Science Software (Physics), the other for
Best Design. Currently, he is exploring the educational effectiveness
of computer-based "hypermodels" – applications that
integrate multimedia materials with a manipulable model of a domain,
using each medium as a tool for navigating the other. Hypermodel activities
typically pose problems to students, then monitor and log their actions
as they attempt to solve them. Data collected from such activities provide
a rich resource for researchers and teachers, and enable them to assess
the students’ understanding of a scientific concept.
Truda Jewett is Associate Executive Director, External Affairs of the
Children’s Aid Society (CAS) in New York City. One of the largest
children’s organizations in the country, CAS provides a broad
spectrum of health, education, recreation, and emergency services to
more than 150,000 needy children and families in New York City each
year. For more than 20 years Jewett spearheaded the development efforts
at CAS, attracting donors from government, foundations, and individuals
to enable the agency to provide its needed services. Today she is contacting
and making connections with governments and international organizations
that want assistance in replicating the work of Children’s Aid.
She serves on the Visiting Committee of the Harvard Graduate School
of Education, and is a founding member of the Leadership Committee at
the Harvard School of Public Health. She is also a trustee for a number
of other organizations, including the Smith Barney Charitable Trust
and Outward Bound.
James A. Kelly is a senior advisor to education organizations, government
agencies, foundations and corporations. Early in his career, he was
a public school teacher and administrator, professor at Teachers College,
Columbia University, and from 1970-1981, was a senior program officer
at the Ford Foundation. His current and recent clients include the Atlantic
Philanthropies, National Research Council of the National Academy of
Sciences, Asia Society, World Bank, Standard & Poors, Widmeyer Communications,
Hewlett Foundation, and the Wallace Funds. From 1987 to 1999 he was
President and CEO of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
(NBPTS); upon his retirement in 1999, the NBPTS elected him to the lifetime
position of Founding President. He is a member of the Executive Board
of the Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE), and serves
on boards of several other educational, corporate, and civic organizations.
Mr. Kelly is a member of the National Academy of Education.
Sherry King was the Superintendent of the Mamaroneck Union Free School
District from February 1996 until her recent retirement in the spring
of 2005. From 1992 to January 1996, she was Superintendent of the Croton-Harmon
Schools, Croton, New York. She has been a high school principal, assistant
principal, and teacher of English, beginning in 1973 at Scarsdale High
School. She is involved with a number of educational movements including
the National Center for Education and the Economy and the Coalition
of Essential Schools. She is an Annenberg Fellow, a trustee on the Board
of Directors for Jobs for the Future, and a senior researcher for the
Chicago Small Schools, funded by the Joyce Foundation.
Eugene T. Paslov started his education career in 1959 as a high school
English teacher. In 1963 Gene Paslov joined the Peace Corps as a volunteer
and taught English as a foreign language in Ankara, Turkey for two years.
Gene completed a MA from California State University,
Long Beach in 1967, a ME.D and Ed.D in public policy and political science
in 1970 and 1972, respectively from Teachers College, Columbia University,
New York.
Gene Paslov has served as State Superintendent of
Public Instruction in Michigan and Nevada for a total of eleven years.
He also spent a total of 14 years in the Michigan State Department serving
in all management levels of the 2500 FTE agency.
Gene has served as the Executive Director of a nonprofit
Research and Development firm (New Standards Project) in Washington,
D.C. where he was instrumental in overseeing the development of national
academic standards and performance assessments.
Paslov spent the last three years of his forty-five-year
career as the President of Harcourt Educational Measurement, a Harcourt
Assessment Company. He retired from the Nevada State Department of Education
in 1995 and he again retired from Harcourt Assessment in 2002, but continues
to do national and international consulting on public education policy
and education leadership issues.
Nancy Pelz-Paget is the director of the Aspen Institute Education and
Society Program as well as one of the founders. Ms. Pelz-Paget is engaged
in the development and dissemination of new strategies for education
and public policy. The current Aspen program focus is on high school
transformation and the multiple pathways and opportunities that young
people need to succeed beyond high school in college, work and as effective
citizens. Through a combination of workshops involving practitioners,
policy makers, and research analysts, commissioning papers, networks
of district and state leaders, the program has contributed to creating
the framework of ideas and policies for what has rapidly become a national
movement around high school transformation.
Ms. Pelz-Paget has served as Director of Policy
Programs, for the Council for Aid to Education, a subsidiary of the
RAND Corporation, where she was responsible for organizing and executing
policy forums with state, education and business leaders on reform in
higher education. This work was related to raising awareness at the
state policy level of the Council’s findings in the report “Breaking
the Social Contract: The Fiscal Crisis in Higher Education.”
Ms. Pelz-Paget has also been a television executive
in charge of program development for public television where she was
involved in production, marketing, outreach and distribution at WNET/Channel
13 and for an independent TV production company. Productions include:
Adam Smith’s Money World; Bill Moyers: The Public Mind; The
Secret Government; Report from Philadelphia; and On the Issues
with John Chancellor.
Prior to working in television, Ms. Pelz-Paget served
as special assistant to Francis Keppel, Chairman of the General Learning
Corp., where she worked on various public policy projects: serving as
project director for the NYC Fleischmann Commission on public education
and as staff director for Gov. Nelson Rockefeller’s Task Force
on Higher Education in New York State as well as for the Education Panel
of the Rockefeller Critical Choices Commission.
She is former vice president of the Board of NY
Women in Film and Television and also serves on the advisory boards
of the Center for Research, Evaluation and the Advancement of Teacher
Education, a Consortium of Texas A&M University System and the UT
System, the three largest producers of teachers in Texas; the Center
for Educational Innovation-Public Education Association; and the American
Ditchley Foundation.
Robert Peterkin is currently Director of the Urban Superintendency Program
at Harvard Graduate School of Education. At Harvard, he is also Francis
Keppel Senior Lecturer on Educational Policy and Administration and
Chair, Programs in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy. Dr.
Peterkin has held school superintendencies in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and has enjoyed a long career from teacher
to deputy superintendent, mainly with the Boston Public Schools.
Elliot Soloway is one of the leading figures in educational technology
research and practice. He is Executive Director of the center for Highly
Interactive Computing in Education (HI-CE) at the University of Michigan
where he is also a Professor in College of Engineering, School of Education,
and School of Information.
Steven J. Uhlfelder is a lawyer who specializes in public and administrative
law. He represents some of the nation's largest corporations including
Microsoft, American Express, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Pearson Education,
Kaplan Education, a subsidiary of the Washington Post, and Tenet Healthcare.
Mr. Uhlfelder is actively engaged in organizations
throughout the nation committed to improving education and encouraging
sound public policy. In 2001, President George W. Bush named him to
the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board; he was then reappointed
for a second term ending September 2007. He served on the Board's Executive
Committee and as Vice-Chair throughout 2003. He has twice been elected
Chair, for 2004 and currently for 2005.
Governor Jeb Bush selected Uhlfelder to serve on
both the Florida Board of Governors for the state university system
and the Board of Trustees for Florida State University. His work with
state and local organizations is widely recognized. Mr. Uhlfelder currently
co-chairs Florida Campus Compact, a statewide organization which promotes
service on Florida college campuses. He is also a member of the South
Florida Annenberg Board, an organization devoted to raising student
achievement and school performance. In past years, Uhlfelder served
as a member of the Taxation and Budget Reform Commission, as General
Counsel for the Florida Department of Community Affairs and as Special
Counsel to the Governor. He was also a member and past Chairman of the
Florida Board of Regents as well as a member of the Southern Regional
Education Board.
As Executive Director of the state's first mandated
Constitution Revision Commission, Uhlfelder helped guide a review of
the Florida Constitution.
In 1999 Uhlfelder was named by Governor Jeb Bush
to co-chair the Governor's Mentoring Initiative, an effort to recruit
thousands of volunteers to work with Florida's at-risk children. For
the past 12 years, Steve has been a tutor and mentor in the public schools
in Leon County. Mr. Uhlfelder has also served as PTO president of the
Leon County public schools his children attended. As Chairman of the
Florida Children's Coalition he led the successful effort to obtain
$23 million for the initial funding of the state's pre-K program. He
was recognized by the Tallahassee Democrat as Volunteer of the Year
in 1990. The United States Olympic Committee chose him to carry the
1996 Olympic Torch in Tallahassee. Florida A&M University presented
him with a Special Recognition Award for his service to the University.
Further, he served as a Florida Public Affairs Chairman for the American
Heart Association and led the legislative effort to curtail smoking
in public places.
Mr. Uhlfelder is the former Chair of the ABA's Standing
Committee on Election Law. During the 2000 presidential post-election
contest, he was an election law consultant for ABC News and Fox News
Network. Steve was Co-chair of Democrats for George Bush, Florida Counsel
for 1996 Clinton/Gore campaign, North Florida Coordinator for President
Jimmy Carter, and Special Election Counsel for Senator Bob Graham. Mr.
Uhlfelder served on the Board of Governors of the Florida Bar for four
years and chaired the 1st District Court of Appeal Judicial Nominating
Commission.
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