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Pendred Noyce, Chair of the Board
Dr. Noyce is a trustee of the Noyce Foundation and a doctor of internal medicine by training. She was Co-Principal Investigator of the NSF-funded Massachusetts State Systemic Initiative Program and of PALMS, a $16 million dollar NSF-funded State Systemic Initiative to improve mathematics, science and technology education in Massachusetts. She was also Co-Principal Investigator of the Massachusetts Parent Involvement Project. Currently, Dr. Noyce serves on the Advisory Board at the Center for Study of Mathematics Curriculum at Michigan State University and the Board of Directors of COMAP. She is on the Board of Directors of TERC, Concord Consortium, Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education, and a Trustee for the Boston Plan for Excellence and the Libra Foundation. She is also on the Dean's Council at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She has been a Trustee of the Noyce Foundation since its inception in 1990.
William Dandridge, Treasurer
Dr. Dandridge most recently served as Vice President for Urban Initiates and Associate Professor of Education at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA. Prior to that, he served as Dean of the School of Education there. Dr. Dandridge was formerly the Dean of the Graduate College of Education at UMASS Boston, and Executive Director of the MA Field Center for Teaching and Learning at UMASS Boston. He is also a former Deputy Superintendent of the Boston Public Schools where he held various administrative roles. Dr. Dandridge received an Ed.D. at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, an M.P.A. at Temple University and a B.A., from Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Dandridge currently serves on the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Educational Personnel Advisory Council.
Maura Banta
Maura O. Banta is the Regional Manager of Corporate Community Relations for IBM. She joined IBM in 1973 as a marketing representative and held positions in Sales, Insurance Industry Consulting and Marketing Management before joining the External Programs Department in 1989. Maura was promoted to manager of the department in 1993, and became corporate community relations manager in 1996. In 2006, Maura was named Eastern Regional Manager, for IBM’s corporate philanthropy, government relations and community relations. Ms. Banta is a board member of United Ways of New England, ACCESS, Mass Taxpayers Foundation, Rennie Center for Education Research and Policy, Boston Plan for Excellence, Carroll School of Management at Boston College and the John Adams Innovation Institute Governing Board a division of the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative. Maura chairs the board of the Mass Business Alliance for Education and has recently completed six years of service to the Massachusetts Educational Management and Audit Council, a position she first held under Governor Jane Swift.
Ellen Condliffe Lagemann
Dr. Lagemann is an education historian and former dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is now on a two-year leave as the Charles Warren Professor of the History of American Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Currently, Dr. Lagemann is the Bard Center Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Bard College, Simon's Rock. Dr. Lagemann has been a professor of history and education at New York University, taught for 16 years at Teachers College at Columbia University, been the president of the Spencer Foundation, and the president of the National Academy of Education. Dr. Lagemann has served on the Committee on Scientific Principles in Educational Research. She received her undergraduate degree from Smith College, received her M.A. in social studies from Teachers College, and her Ph.D. in history and education from Columbia University.
Rosanne Bacon Meade
Ms. Meade is an Advisory Board Co-Chair at Cambridge College and former President of the Massachusetts Teachers Association. Ms. Meade received her B.A. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Robert Schwartz
Mr. Schwartz has been at the
Paul Reville, President & Clerk
preville@renniecenter.org
Paul Reville is the president of the Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy, an independent, policy organization dedicated to the improvement of pre K-12 public education in Massachusetts. The Rennie Center conducts research, convenes policy makers and shapers, and advocates for solutions to the state’s most formidable, educational challenges. Paul is also a lecturer on educational policy and politics at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Paul has a long history of educational leadership at the national, state and local levels. He is the former executive director of the Pew Forum on Standards-Based Reform, a Harvard-based, national education policy "think tank" which convened the nation’s leading researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers.
In Massachusetts, Paul has been promoting education reform for the past twenty years. He was the founding executive director of the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education (MBAE), an organization that provided key conceptual and political leadership for the development and passage of the historic Education Reform Act of 1993. From 1991-95, he served on the Massachusetts State Board of Education where among other assignments, he chaired the Massachusetts Commission on Time and Learning. From 1996-2003, Paul, at the Governor’s request, chaired the Massachusetts Education Reform Review Commission, the state body that provided research and oversight for the state’s implementation of education reform in the Commonwealth.
In 1985, Paul was the founding executive director of the Alliance for Education, a multi-service educational improvement fund serving Worcester and Central Massachusetts. He continues to play an active role in Worcester as chair of the Worcester Education Partnership’s Steering Committee, a key partner in a Carnegie-sponsored initiative to transform Worcester’s high schools.
He began his educational career in 1971 as a practitioner: first as a VISTA volunteer/youth worker, then as a teacher and, ultimately, principal in two urban, alternative high-schools.
He is a graduate of Colorado College and holds a Master’s degree from Stanford University.
He is a board member, chair of the policy committee and a senior research adviser to the Public Education Network, a Washington DC based association of the nation’s local education funds. He is a trustee of Wheelock College and of numerous boards and advisory committees. He is a frequent writer and speaker on school reform and educational policy issues. Finally, he has four children and two step-children who are committed to his continuing education.
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