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