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CARNEGIE FOUNDATION ELECTS FOUR NEW BOARD MEMBERS
Washington, D.C. (Nov. 1, 2008) The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching elected Larry Berger, David K. Cohen, Paul Romer and Beverly Daniel Tatum to its board of trustees for four-year terms. They will take office at the foundation’s annual Board meeting in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 20, 2008.
Berger is the CEO and co-founder of Wireless Generation, an education company that pioneered the adaptation of mobile technologies for use in managing and improving teaching and learning in prekindergarten through sixth grade. Previously, he served as president of InterDimensions and was the educational technology specialist at The Children’s Aid Society. He was appointed to a joint Commission on Mathematics and Science Education formed by Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Institute for Advanced Study and has published numerous articles on education technology and the use of mobile computing to support diagnostic instruction.
Cohen is John Dewey Professor of Education, and Professor of Public Policy at the University of Michigan, where he co-directs the Study of Instructional Improvement—a large longitudinal study of efforts to improve instruction and learning in reading/language arts and mathematics in high-poverty elementary schools. His previous work includes studies on the effects of schooling, various efforts to reform schools and teaching, the evaluation of educational experiments and large-scale intervention programs, and the relationship between research and policy.
Romer is a senior fellow in the Stanford Center for International Development and the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. His contributions to the field of economics include being the primary developer of New Growth Theory, which reduces the traditional emphasis on the scarcity of objects and directs attention to the power of new ideas. His theory has brought renewed optimism about the potential for growth in both advanced and developing economies. Romer was named one of America’s 25 most influential people by TIME (1997), elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2000) and awarded the Horst Claus Recktenwald Prize in Economics (2002).
He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Fellow of the Econometric Society. Previously, he taught in Stanford’s Graduate School of Business as the STANCO 25 Professor of Economics and was honored with the Distinguished Teaching Award (1999); he has also taught economics at UC Berkeley, the University of Chicago and the University of Rochester. In addition to his career in teaching and research, Romer founded Aplia Inc., which is now part of Cengage Learning.
Tatum is the president of Spelman College and is a renowned scholar, teacher, clinical psychologist and national author and lecturer on racial identity development, resegregation, and the role of race in the classroom. Prior to assuming this role, she served at Mount Holyoke College as a psychology professor, department chair, dean of the college and acting president; taught psychology at Westfield State College; and lectured in African-American studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
She has commented in TIME, The Boston Globe and The Christian Science Monitor, and has discussed her views on CNN, National Public Radio, Lifetime and Oprah. Her definitive books on race relations include “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” and Other Conversations about Race (1997) and Can We Talk About Race? and Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation (2008). Tatum has served on the Board of Directors of the Association of American Colleges and Universities and Wesleyan University, and is a member of the White House Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
Founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1905 and chartered in 1906 by an act of Congress, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching is an independent policy and research center with a primary mission “to do and perform all things necessary to encourage, uphold, and dignify the profession of the teacher.” The improvement of teaching and learning is central to all of the work of the Foundation. The Foundation is located in Stanford, Calif. More information may be found on the website at www.carnegiefoundation.org.
The Carnegie Foundation is governed by an independent, national Board of Trustees and uses income from its endowment to support its research and publication activities. The Foundation makes no grants.
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Spelman College:
Founded in 1881, Spelman College is the only historically Black college in
the nation to be included on the U.S. News and World Report's list of top
75 "Best Liberal Arts Colleges — Undergraduate," 2005. Located in Atlanta,
Ga., this private, historically Black women's college boasts outstanding
alumnae, including Children's Defense Fund Founder Marian Wright Edelman;
U.S. Foreign Service Director General Ruth Davis; authors Tina McElroy Ansa and
Pearl Cleage and actress LaTanya Richardson. More than 83 percent of the
full-time faculty members have Ph.D.s or other terminal degrees and the
student-faculty ratio is 12:1. Annually, nearly one-third of Spelman
students receive degrees in the sciences. The students number more than
2,186 and represent 43 states and 34 foreign countries. For more
information regarding Spelman College, visit: www.spelman.edu.
