PRE-K-12 PANEL

Alfred Berkeley is vice chairman and former president of the NASDAQ Stock Market, Inc. He was managing director at Alex, Brown & Sons where he developed the firm's technology practice. He serves on the executive committee of the U.S. Council on Competitiveness, where he led the development of "getsmarter.org" an innovative, web-based math and science assessment. (Panel Co-chair)

Shirley Malcom heads the education directorate at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). A trustee of Caltech and a former member of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, she has thirty years of experience in the design and implementation of interventions to increase the participation of under-represented groups in science and mathematics. (Panel Co-chair)

Eugene Garcia is dean of the School of Education, Arizona State University and is former dean of the school of education at the University of California, Berkeley. He was a senior officer and director of the Office of Bilingual Education and Language Minority Affairs at the U.S. Department of Education. He also served as a National Research Council fellow. (Panel Expert Leader)

Allan Alson is superintendent of Evanston Township High School, a school with over 3,000 students, half of who are from ethnic/racial minority groups and a fourth of who are from low-income backgrounds. More than three-fourths of the school's students go on to college. He is also convenor of the Minority Student Achievement Network, a national consortium of 15 urban-suburban school districts.

Raymond V. " Buzz" Bartlett is president and chief executive officer of the Council for Basic Education and immediate past president of the Maryland State Board of Education. He was formerly director of corporate affairs for Lockheed Martin. He serves on the boards of the Institute for Educational Leadership and Americans for the Arts.

Muriel Berkeley, president of the Baltimore Curriculum Project, an initiative that has achieved nationally recognized gains in low-performing inner city elementary schools, has taught in elementary schools, middle schools, and universities throughout her career. She studied social science research at the Johns Hopkins University, where she earned her doctorate.

Susan Brady is the director of Education Programs at the nationally recognized Merck Institute for Science Education. She was previously at the Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California at Berkeley, where she developed nationally-implemented science curriculum and directed several professional development programs for K-12 teachers.

Manuel Berriozábal is professor of mathematics at the University of Texas at San Antonio and the founder and director of the San Antonio prefreshman engineering program and the founder and coordinator of the Texas prefreshman engineering program. He was also a member of the Expert Panel in Mathematics and Science Education, U.S. Department of Education/OERI.

Costello Brown is the division director of the division of educational system reform at the National Science Foundation. He oversees the newly developed math and science partnership program as well as the urban and rural systemic initiatives. He previously served as the program director for the minority graduate education program in the human resources division at NSF.

Patricia Campbell, president of Campbell-Kibler Associates, Inc. was formerly an associate professor of research, measurement and statistics at Georgia State University. She has been involved in educational research and evaluation in education with a focus on issues of gender, race and disability in science and mathematics since the mid 1970s.

Douglas Carnine, a member of the National Institute for Literacy Advisory Board, is professor of education and the director of the National Center to Improve the Tools of Educators at the University of Oregon. He also serves as an advisor to the USDOE. A National Science Foundation fellow in psychology as an undergraduate, he completed his M.A. in special education and his Ph.D. in educational psychology.

Elizabeth Cohen, professor emerita of education and sociology at Stanford University, founded and directed the Program for Complex Instruction. Her research focuses on application of status characteristic theory to the classroom and to the organization of teaching. As a graduate school professor for over 30 years, she chaired over 80 doctoral theses, most in sociology of education.

Mike Cohen is senior fellow for the Program on Education in a Changing Society, and former assistant secretary for elementary and secondary education at the Department of Education. He is responsible for helping to formulate an agenda for state and local leadership to transform high schools nationwide and working with urban superintendents to improve student achievement and close achievement gaps.

Anthony Colón is vice president of the National Council of La Raza's Center for Community Educational Excellence. He has also served on the faculty of Lehman College at the City University of New York and in Fordham University's department of bilingual services. In New York, he was the director of special education for Community School District Ten and chairperson of the Committee on Special Education.

Jacquelynne Eccles is chair of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Successful Pathways through Middle Childhood, professor of psychology and a research scientist at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. Her research studies gender-role socialization, teacher expectancies, and classroom influences, and student motivation to social development in the family and school context.

Charles Eilber is president of Charles Eilber Associates, Inc. and founding director of the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (NCSSM). During his tenure at NCSSM, he also served as an adjunct professor of science education at Duke University. He later served as a program officer at NSF where he headed the team that developed the Statewide Systemic Initiatives (SSI) program.

Stephanie Fanjul, director of Student Achievement, National Education Association, is former deputy commissioner, Child Care Bureau of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She was formerly director of the North Carolina Division of Child Development, a member of the Raleigh City Council, and served on the team that developed Smart Start, a comprehensive early childhood initiative.

Yolanda George is the deputy director and program director, Directorate for Education and Human Resources Programs at the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is on the board of directors for the Women in Engineering Programs & Advocates Network. She has also worked internationally with educators and youth leaders on science education projects, particularly projects for girls.

Kris Gutiérrez is a professor in the Division of Urban Schooling in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA. Her research focuses on the relationship among literacy, culture and human development. While teaching, she has also served as associate director of the Chicano Studies Research Center and division head for urban schooling, curriculum, teaching and policy studies.

Rebecca Herman is a senior research analyst at the American Institutes for Research, and specializes in designing and conducting research on educational improvement, especially comprehensive school reform. She is principal investigator of the Longitudinal Evaluation of Comprehensive School Reform, a large-scale quantitative and qualitative study of the effects of national school improvement designs.

Paquita Holland was the principal of Oyster Bilingual Elementary School, a dual-language immersion program in English and Spanish in Washington, DC. Formerly an official of the U.S. Department of Education, office of bilingual education and minority languages affairs, she was responsible for development and administration of its teacher training and fellowship programs. She was also a high school science educator for 15 years.

Anthony Jackson is vice president of Strategic Development and Communications at The Galef Institute, where he directs efforts to build partnerships with government agencies, foundations, and corporations. He was formerly a director of the Disney Learning Partnership, a philanthropic initiative of the Walt Disney Company.

Julia Lara is deputy executive director of the State Services and Technical Assistance division of the Council of Chief State School Officers. She manages the programmatic initiatives of the division, which includes projects of the former Resource Center on Educational Equity and the Assessment Center. Previously she served as the acting director of the Resource Center on Educational Equity.

Leon Lederman received the Nobel Prize in Physics (1988). He is director emeritus of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois and is one of the founders of the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy. He also served as chairman of the State of Illinois Governor's Science Advisory Committee, and is founder and chairman of the Teachers Academy for Mathematics and Science.

Babette Moeller is a principal investigator at the Center for Children and Technology of the Education Development Center. She directs an effort to develop, implement, and formatively evaluate model curriculum activities and materials that illustrate the achievement of national mathematics and science standards by students with disabilities.

Andrea Prejean is assistant professor of education at American University. Her areas of expertise include teaching children mathematics, girls and science, preservice teacher education, professional development and learning in middle school classrooms. She holds a Ph.D. from Central Florida University.

Linda Rosen, an independent consultant, is a former senior vice president at the National Alliance of Business. Previously, she was the math and science advisor at the U.S. Department of Education, and executive director of the National Commission on Math and Science Teaching for the 21st Century, and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.

Larry Rosenstock is principal and CEO of High Tech High in San Diego. He has been an urban teacher and high school principal in Cambridge (MA), was staff attorney at the Harvard Center for Law and Education, and taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He also directed the New Urban High School Project for the U.S. Department of Education and was CEO of Price Charities in San Diego.

Barbara Schulz is currently consulting with the Science Education Partnership at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, WA. She is the former president of the National Association of Biology Teachers and the former high school division director of the National Science Teachers Association. Most recently, she is the former director of BioLab, a research lab for kids.

Diane Siri is superintendent of the Santa Cruz County Office of Education. She taught math at the high school level before serving as a high school principal. Her current focus is on the equity, quality of and access to more rigorous math courses for under-represented students. She is working on implementing data driven change in schools using concepts of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Program.

Virginia Stern is director of the project on science, technology and disability at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and also director of the ENTRY POINT! Project on employment of students with disabilities in technical fields, funded by private sector companies. She received the 2001 Presidential Mentoring Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering.

Sam Stringfield is a principal research scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Ccenter for the Social Organization of Schools. He is co-director of the Systemic Supports for School Improvement Ssection of the Center for Research on Education of Students Placed at Risk. He is also co-director of the Program on Integrated Reform at UC, Santa Cruz' Center for Research on Education, Diversity and Excellence.

Louise Sundin, president of the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers, is the national vice president of the executive council of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). She serves on the AFT's K-12 program and policy council. She is a founding member of the Teacher Union Reform Network and has participated in numerous joint labor-management leadership groups.

Mary Catherine Swanson, founded the AVID (Advancement Through Individual Determination) program in 1980 and the AVID Center in 1992 after teaching high school English for 20 years. AVID prepares underachieving students for four-year college entry, and historically sends 93 percent of its students to college.

Shelly Wolff is president of the National Society of Women Engineers (NSWE). She leads outreach efforts including implementing recommendations presented by the Commission on the Advancement of Women and Minorities in Science, Engineering and Technology (CAWMSET). Currently, NSWE focuses on enhancing the image of engineers - one of the main recommendations of the CAWMSET final report.

Emily Wurtz is leader of the Small Learning Communities initiative of the U.S. Department of Education and former acting executive director of the National Education Goals Panel. She has worked on education reform efforts to improve curricula, train teachers, and establish education standards, assessments, and reports as staff to various federal policymaking groups.