Speakers

Plenary Speaker
Roberto Rodriguez
Special Assistant to the President for Education Policy

Plenary Speaker
James H. Shelton III
Acting Deputy Secretary for the U.S. Department of Education

Clifford Adelman
Senior Associate, Institute for Higher Education Policy

Randy Bennett
Norman O. Frederiksen Chair in Assessment Innovation, Research & Development Division, Educational Testing Service (ETS)

Peggy Carr
Associate Commissioner for Assessment, National Center for Education Statistics

Michael Casserly
Executive Director, Council of the Great City Schools

Louis Danielson
Managing Director, American Institutes for Research

Matthew DiCarlo
Senior Fellow, the Albert Shanker Institute

David Driscoll
Chair, National Assessment Governing Board

John Easton
Director, Institute of Education Sciences

Pat Forgione
Distinguished Presidential Scholar and Executive Director, K-12 Center at Educational Testing Service

Alan Friedman
Chair, 25th Anniversary Planning Committee; Museum Consultant; Former Member, National Assessment Governing Board

Frederick M. Hess
Resident Scholar and Director of Education Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute

Terry Holliday
Kentucky Education Commissioner; President, Council of Chief State School Officers

Cornelia Orr
Executive Director, National Assessment Governing Board

Gary Phillips
Vice President, American Institutes for Research

Susan Pimentel
Vice-Chair, National Assessment Governing Board; Co-Founder, StandardsWork

Alexa Posny
Senior Vice President, Renaissance Learning; Former Assistant Secretary, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, U.S. Department of Education

Charlene Rivera
Research Professor and Executive Director, The George Washington University Center for Equity and Excellence in Education

Richard Rothstein
Research Associate, Economic Policy Institute

Andy Smarick
Partner, Bellwether Education Partners

Ben Wildavsky
Director of Higher Education Studies, Rockefeller Institute, State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany

Gene Wilhoit
Former Executive Director, Council of Chief State School Officers
Working Dinner Speakers

Lucille Davy
Board Member, National Assessment Governing Board; President and CEO, Transformative Education Solutions, LLC; Senior Advisor, The Hunt Institute

Michael Feuer
Dean of the Graduate School of Education and Human Development, George Washington University

Mark Musick
Quillen Chair of Excellence in Teaching and Learning, East Tennessee State University

Charles Smith
Former Executive Director, National Assessment Governing Board

Roy Truby
Former Senior Vice President, State and Federal Programs, Renaissance Learning

Darvin Winick
Advisor, NAEP 12th Grade Preparedness Commission;Executive Director, Institute for Public School Initiatives, The University of Texas at Austin