2020-2021
GOVERNING BOARD MEMBERSHIP
(2020-2021)
Honorable Haley Barbour, Chair
BGR Group, Founding Partner
Yazoo City, Mississippi
Representative Alice Peisch, Vice Chair
Massachusetts House of Representatives
Wellesley, Massachusetts
Dana K. Boyd
Principal
Parkland Elementary School
El Paso, Texas
Alberto M. Carvalho
Superintendent
Miami-Dade County Public Schools
Miami, Florida
Gregory J. Cizek
Guy B. Phillips
Distinguished Professor of Educational
Measurement and Evaluation
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Tyler W. Cramer
CEO and Executive Manager
Remarc Associates LLC
San Diego, California
Eric Hanushek
Hanna Senior Fellow
Hoover Institution
Stanford, California
Patrick L. Kelly
Director of Governmental Affairs
Palmetto State Teachers Association
Columbia, South Carolina
Suzanne Lane
Professor of Research Methodology University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Tonya Matthews
Chief Executive Officer
International African American Museum Charleston, South Carolina
Reginald McGregor
Manager, Engineering Employee
Development & STEM Outreach
Rolls Royce Corporation
Indianapolis, Indiana
Mark Miller
Eighth-Grade Mathematics Teacher
and Department Chair
Cheyenne Mountain Junior High
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Honorable Beverly Perdue
Former Governor of North Carolina
New Bern, North Carolina
Julia Rafal-Baer
Managing Partner & Co-Founder
ILO Group
Cranston, Rhode Island
Christine Cunningham
Professor of Education and
Engineering
College of Education
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, Pennsylvania
Frank Edelblut
Commissioner
New Hampshire Department of
Education
Concord, New Hampshire
Paul Gasparini
Secondary School Principal
Jamesville-DeWitt High School
DeWitt, New York
Honorable James E. Geringer
Former Governor of Wyoming
Cheyenne, Wyoming
Ron Reynolds
Executive Director
California Association of Private School
Organizations
Van Nuys, California
Nardi Routten
Fourth-Grade Teacher
Creekside Elementary School
New Bern, North Carolina
Martin R. West
Massachusetts Board of Elementary
and Secondary Education
Professor of Education
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Representative Mark White
Tennessee House of Representatives
Nashville, Tennessee
Grover J. "Russ" Whitehurst
Professor Emeritus
Stony Brook University
Fort Myers, Florida
Carey M. Wright
State Superintendent
Mississippi Department of Education
Jackson, Mississippi
Ex-officio Member
Mark Schneider
Director
Institute of Education Sciences