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Clifford Adelman
senior associate, The Institute for Higher Education Policy, District of Columbia


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Jon Alexiou
Director, Community College Initiatives, Educational Testing Service
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Roy Barnes
Former Governor, Georgia
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David Beaulieu
Editor, Journal of American Indian Education, Arizona State University
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Cheryl D. Blanco
vice president for lifelong learning policy and research, Council for Adult and Experiential Learning, Illinois


 

Hank M. Bounds
superintendent of education, Mississippi Department of Education, Mississippi; ECS commissioner


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Hank M. Bounds
Superintendent of education, Mississippi Department of Education; ECS Commissioner
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Sarita E. Brown
President, Excelencia in Education, Inc.
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Rasheed Brown
student, Josephine Dobbs Clement Early College High School, North Carolina


 

Robin Butterfield
Senior liaison, Minority Community Outreach, National Education Association
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Andrew Calkins
executive director, Mass Insight Education and Research Institute, Massachusetts


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Bruce Chaloux
Director, Adult Learning Campaign, Southern Regional Education Board
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Roderick G.W. Chu
interim president, Education Commission of the States, Ohio; member, ECS Executive Committee


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Michael Cohen
President, Achieve, Inc.
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Jay Cole
education policy advisor, Office of Governor Joe Manchin III, West Virginia; member, ECS Steering Committee, ECS commissioner and ECS Nominating Committee


 

Houston D. Davis
associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, Tennessee Board of Regents, Tennessee


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Ann Duffy
Director of policy development, Georgia's Leadership Institute for School Improvement
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Robert H. Dugger
Managing director, Tudor Investment Corporation
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Richard A. Duschl
professor, Graduate School of Education, Rutgers University, New Jersey


 

Sam Evans
dean, College of Education and Behavioral Sciences, Western Kentucky University, Kentucky; ECS commissioner


 

Aimee R. Guidera
director, Data Quality Campaign Minnesota


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Aimee R. Guidera
Director, Data Quality Campaign, National Center for Educational Accountability
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Ted Hershberg
Professor, public policy and history; director, Center for Greater Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania
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Norbert S. Hill Jr.
Executive director, American Indian Graduate Center, New Mexico
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Charles R. Hokanson Jr.
Deputy assistant secretary for policy and strategic initiatives, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, U.S. Department of Education
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Mike Huckabee
Governor, Arkansas; 2004-06 ECS Chairman; ECS Commissioner; member, ECS Steering and Executive Committees
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Carolyn Jarmon
senior associate, National Center - Academic Transformation, Texas


 

Lee Jenkins
president, From L to J Consulting Group, Inc., Arizona


 

Sharon Lynn Kagan
marx professor of early childhood and family policy, Teachers College, Columbia University, Connecticut


 

Kristi Kauerz
graduate research fellow, National Center for Children and Families, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York


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Billy Kearney
Executive director, New Leaders for New Schools, Memphis Office
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Jason Kingston
Associate director, Standard & Poor's
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Colin Kippen
Executive director, Native Hawaiian Education Council
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Ted Kolderie
Senior associate, Center for Policy Studies
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Kevin Kopischke
President, Alexandria Community and Technical College, Minnesota
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Kurt M. Landgraf
President and CEO, Educational Testing Service
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Dane Linn
director, Education Division, National Governors Association, District of Columbia


 

Elizabeth Lodal
; ECS commissioner


 

Hans L'Orange
director, SHEEO/NCEC Communication Network, State Higher Education Executive Officers, Colorado


 

Lynn L. Lupold
high school redesign coordinator, Indiana Department of Education, Indiana


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Andrea Martin
Advisor, Avalon School, Minnesota
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Thomas C. Meredith
commissioner of higher education, Board of Trustees, Mississippi State Institutions of Higher Learning, Mississippi; ECS commissioner


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Warren A. Nord
Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina
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Mari Pearlman
senior vice president, Higher Education Division, Educational Testing Service, New Jersey


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John R. Phillipo
Chairman/chief executive officer, CELT Corporation
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Stefanie Sanford
Senior policy officer for education, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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Thomas Schultz
project director, Early Education Accountability, PEW Charitable Trusts, Pennsylvania


 

Jewel D. Scott
executive director, Civic Council of Greater Kansas City, Missouri; member, ECS Steering Committee and ECS commissioner


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Alice Seagren
Commissioner of education, Minnesota; ECS Commissioner
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Kathleen Sebelius
Governor, Kansas; 2006-08 ECS Chair-elect; ECS Commissioner; member, ECS Executive and Steering Committees
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Nancy Sturm
education technology advisor to the governor, West Virginia Office of Technology, West Virginia; ECS commissioner


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Oliver Thomas
Consultant, Niswonger Foundation
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Marc S. Tucker
president, National Center on Education and the Economy, District of Columbia


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Margaret Daniels Tyler
Executive director, Bill & Melinda Gates Millennium Scholars Program
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Richard J.H. Varn
President, RJV Consulting; former IT director and chairman; former chairman Iowa House Education Appropriations Subcommittee
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Linda M. Wallinger
Assistant superintendent for instruction, Virginia Department of Education
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Carolyn White
director, Learn and Earn, North Carolina New Schools Project, North Carolina


 

Steve Williams
executive to the superintendent, Education and Accountability, Mississippi Department of Education, Mississippi


 

Ethan Yazzie-Mintz
project director, High School Survey of Student Engagement Center for Evaluation & Education Policy, Indiana University, Indiana





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