Speakers
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Plenary Speaker
Roberto Rodriguez
Special Assistant to the President for Education Policy
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Plenary Speaker
James H. Shelton III
Acting Deputy Secretary for the U.S. Department of Education
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Clifford Adelman
Senior Associate, Institute for Higher Education Policy
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Randy Bennett
Norman O. Frederiksen Chair in Assessment Innovation, Research & Development Division, Educational Testing Service (ETS)
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Peggy Carr
Associate Commissioner for Assessment, National Center for Education Statistics
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Michael Casserly
Executive Director, Council of the Great City Schools
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Louis Danielson
Managing Director, American Institutes for Research
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Matthew DiCarlo
Senior Fellow, the Albert Shanker Institute
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David Driscoll
Chair, National Assessment Governing Board
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John Easton
Director, Institute of Education Sciences
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Pat Forgione
Distinguished Presidential Scholar and Executive Director, K-12 Center at Educational Testing Service
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Alan Friedman
Chair, 25th Anniversary Planning Committee; Museum Consultant; Former Member, National Assessment Governing Board
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Frederick M. Hess
Resident Scholar and Director of Education Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute
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Terry Holliday
Kentucky Education Commissioner; President, Council of Chief State School Officers
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Cornelia Orr
Executive Director, National Assessment Governing Board
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Gary Phillips
Vice President, American Institutes for Research
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Susan Pimentel
Vice-Chair, National Assessment Governing Board; Co-Founder, StandardsWork
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Alexa Posny
Senior Vice President, Renaissance Learning; Former Assistant Secretary, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, U.S. Department of Education
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Charlene Rivera
Research Professor and Executive Director, The George Washington University Center for Equity and Excellence in Education
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Richard Rothstein
Research Associate, Economic Policy Institute
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Andy Smarick
Partner, Bellwether Education Partners
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Ben Wildavsky
Director of Higher Education Studies, Rockefeller Institute, State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany
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Gene Wilhoit
Former Executive Director, Council of Chief State School Officers
Working Dinner Speakers
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Lucille Davy
Board Member, National Assessment Governing Board; President and CEO, Transformative Education Solutions, LLC; Senior Advisor, The Hunt Institute
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Michael Feuer
Dean of the Graduate School of Education and Human Development, George Washington University
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Mark Musick
Quillen Chair of Excellence in Teaching and Learning, East Tennessee State University
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Charles Smith
Former Executive Director, National Assessment Governing Board
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Roy Truby
Former Senior Vice President, State and Federal Programs, Renaissance Learning
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Darvin Winick
Advisor, NAEP 12th Grade Preparedness Commission;Executive Director, Institute for Public School Initiatives, The University of Texas at Austin