Peter Piazza

Peter Piazza is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Policy, Research, and Administration at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. In this capacity, he co-leads the Massachusetts Consortium for Innovative Educational Assessment (MCIEA), a coalition of public K-12 districts piloting a non-test-based form of school quality measurement. Before working with MCIEA, Peter completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Penn State’s Center for Education and Civil Rights, and he writes about race and school integration at the School Diversity Notebook blog, an affiliate of the National Coalition on School Diversity. Peter is also an adjunct instructor in the Leadership in Schooling Ed.D. program at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He earned his Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from Boston College in 2015. He lives in Malden, MA, where his daughter is a student in the public schools.