Talk: Current Issues in Massachusetts Education Policy
Join the Center for Public Policy and Administration as we explore current issues in Massachusetts education policy with Paul Reville, President of the Rennie Center for Education Research and Policy.
Mr. Reville will discuss relevant issues in Massachusetts education policy, including high school reform, the truth about charter schools, possible options for improving low performing schools, and labor relations management for educational institutions. This event is free and open to the public.
Mr. Reville 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. 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, at the Governor's request, Mr. Reville 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. He is also a lecturer on educational policy and politics at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
The Rennie Center for Education Research and Policy is an independent, policy organization dedicated to the improvement of pre K-12 public education in Massachusetts. Their mission is to develop a public agenda that informs and promotes significant improvement of public education in Massachusetts. By applying nonpartisan, independent research, journalism and civic engagement, the Rennie Center seeks to create a civil space to foster thoughtful public discourse to inform and shape effective policy.
The Center for Public Policy and Administration was established in 1998 as a non-partisan interdisciplinary center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. CPPA, part of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, is committed to improving public policy and governance by educating leaders for public service and conducting and applying interdisciplinary research. For more information, visit www.masspolicy.org.