Arthur E. Wise, Board Chair
Betsy Rogers, Secretary
Buck Goldstein, Treasurer
Barnett Berry, CTQ President and CEO
Randy Bridges
Linda Darling-Hammond
Virginia Edwards
Leslie Graitcer
James A. Kelly
Tom Lambeth, Chair Emeritus
Sharon Robinson
Robert Sexton
Gwynn Virostek

Arthur E. Wise, Board Chair
During his career, Art Wise has worked toward teacher quality and professionalism, school finance reform, and the advancement of educational research. As the President of the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), he directed the design of performance-based accreditation, and led efforts to develop a system of quality assurance for the teaching profession. Among his numerous influential publications, Dr. Wise is co-author of A License to Teach, which is a blueprint for the professionalization of teaching. He first came to national prominence as the author of Rich Schools, Poor Schools: The Promise of Equal Educational Opportunity. The prescient 1968 book conceived the idea of the school finance reform lawsuit. His 1979 book, Legislated Learning, anticipated the call for teacher professionalism. As senior social scientist and director of the RAND Corporation’s Center for the Study of the Teaching Profession, Dr. Wise saw many of his proposed changes to education policy incorporated into state laws and regulations. Long active in federal education policy, he was associate director for research serving at National Institute of Education. Subsequently, at the Office of Management and Budget, he helped to create the cabinet-level U.S. Department of Education. Dr. Wise is a graduate of the Boston (Public) Latin School, Harvard College, and received an MBA and a PhD in education from the University of Chicago. Currently, he is President Emeritus of NCATE.

Betsy Rogers, Secretary
Betsy Rogers is a curriculum leader and teacher coach at high-poverty Brighton School (K-8) on the outskirts of Birmingham, Alabama. Dr. Rogers has taught for more than 20 years in Title I schools, and her teaching excellence was recognized as 2002-2003 Alabama State Teacher of the Year and 2003-2004 National Teacher of the Year. After her term as NTOY, Dr. Rogers sought out the assignment at Brighton, a chronically low-performing school. She was recently named a School Improvement Specialist for the Jefferson County School District and continues to be based at Brighton. Dr. Rogers keeps a weblog called "Brighton's Hope" about her experiences at the school and her continuing professional growth. Dr. Rogers, who earned a doctorate in educational leadership in 2002, is an NBCT (Early Childhood Generalist) and a board member of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. She is also president of her state's independent teacher organization, the Alabama Conference of Educators, and chairs the Governor's Task Force on Teacher Quality. Dr. Rogers is a member of CTQ’s Teacher Leaders Network and also served as a founding member of the Alabama NBCT Network. In addition, she was a member of the TeacherSolutions team whose 2007 report, Performance-Pay for Teachers: Designing a System that Students Deserve, received considerable attention from education media and state and federal policymakers.

Buck Goldstein, Treasurer
Buck Goldstein is the University Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a position supported by the Carolina Entrepreneurial Initiative, and a Senior Lecturer in the University's department of Economics. He founded Information America, an online information company and built it from a start-up to a publicly traded company. Subsequently, he served on the Executive Committee of West Publishing Company and ran several divisions of Thomson before becoming a Partner in Mellon Ventures, a national venture capital firm, a position he left to assume his duties at the University. Aside from new ideas and businesses, Professor Goldstein is currently working on a book on entrepreneurship and the research university.

Barnett Berry, Board Member
Barnett Berry is the President and CEO of the Center for Teaching Quality, Inc., based in Hillsborough, North Carolina. The Center seeks to close the student achievement gap by closing the teaching quality gap. As a former high school teacher, Dr. Berry leads a research-based advocacy organization dedicated to cultivating teacher leadership and conducting research that can transform the teaching profession. In 2003, he created the Teacher Leaders Network – a dynamic virtual community – whose purpose is to elevate the voices of expert teachers when it comes to policy debates regarding their profession and the students they serve. Dr. Berry also has worked as a social scientist at the RAND Corporation, served as a senior executive with the South Carolina State Department of Education and directed an education policy center while he was a professor at the University of South Carolina. He has authored numerous academic and trade publications. He serves on several boards and in an advisory capacity to numerous organizations committed to teaching quality, equity and social justice in America's schools.

Randy Bridges, Board Member
Dr. Bridges became superintendent of the Alamance-Burlington School System on September 1, 2006. He came to Alamance County from Rock Hill, South Carolina, where he was superintendent of Rock Hill School District Three for four years. Prior to Rock Hill, he held other positions in the North Carolina public school system including serving as a classroom teacher for twelve years, a middle and high school principal, an associate superintendent for public relations, an associate superintendent for human resources, and as the superintendent of the Orange County School System in Hillsborough, North Carolina. Dr. Bridges received his undergraduate and masters’ degrees from the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, and his Doctorate of Education from Fayetteville State University. He serves on several local, state, and national committees and boards including the Southern Education Foundation Board of Directors, where he will serve as Chairman for the next two years, Center for Teaching Quality Board of Directors, and the Louisburg Junior College Board of Trustees. Additionally, he is a member of the prestigious Schlechty Center Superintendents’ Network. Among other awards and achievements, Dr. Bridges is a recipient of the Outstanding Alumni Award for the University of North Carolina at Pembroke and has been recognized as the North Carolina School Boards Association Superintendent of the Year.

Linda Darling-Hammond, Board Member
Linda Darling-Hammond is the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford University, where she has launched the Stanford Educational Leadership Institute and the School Redesign Network, as well as serving as faculty sponsor for the Stanford Teacher Education Program. Prior to her appointment at Stanford, Dr. Darling-Hammond was the William F. Russell Professor in the Foundations of Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. There, she was the founding Executive Director of the National Commission for Teaching and America's Future (NCTAF), the blue-ribbon panel whose 1996 report, What Matters Most: Teaching for America's Future, catalyzed major policy changes across the United States to improve the quality of teacher education and teaching. Her research, teaching, and policy work focus on issues of teaching quality, school reform, and educational equity. Among her more than 200 publications is the forthcoming Powerful Learning: What We Know About Teaching for Understanding (Jossey-Bass: 2008); Powerful Teacher Education: Lessons from Exemplary Programs (Jossey-Bass: 2006); The Right to Learn, recipient of the American Educational Research Association’s Outstanding Book Award for 1998; and Teaching as the Learning Profession (Jossey-Bass: 1999, co-edited with Gary Sykes), which received the National Staff Development Council’s Outstanding Book Award for 2000. Dr. Darling-Hammond’s recent awards include the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education's 2006 Pomeroy Award, the 2005 Horace Mann League Outstanding Educator Award from the American Association of School Administrators, the National Commission on African American Education's 2003 Founder’s Award, and Stanford University School of Education's 2002 Outstanding Teaching Award.

Virginia Edwards, Board Member
As president of Editorial Projects in Education, Virginia B. Edwards oversees the nearly 90-person, $15 million-a-year nonprofit corporation that publishes Education Week and edweek.org. She has held the post since 1997. Ms. Edwards has been the editor of Education Week – the premier “newspaper of record” for precollegiate education in the United States – since 1989. The newspaper, which covers policy developments in K-12 education and is published 45 times a year, has a paid circulation of about 50,000 and is read by more than 160,000 others. Since 1995, she has also served as the editor and publisher of edweek.org. Currently, edweek.org serves up more than 2 million page views to 350,000 unique visitors each month. EPE also publishes the online Teacher Magazine; Digital Directions, an Education Week-branded magazine for the school-technology market, and the Teacher Professional Development Sourcebook, which is published twice a year and provides thoughtful perspective and guidance on professional development and includes a one-of-a-kind directory of professional development products and services for teachers. EPE is also home to the TopSchoolJobs.org job-recruitment service and the EPE Research Center. Before joining EPE, Ms. Edwards worked for two years for the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and, for the nearly 10 years before that, was an editor and reporter at The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Ky. A frequent speaker on education policy issues, Ms. Edwards serves on the boards of several nonprofit organizations, including the Center on Education Policy, the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, the Student Press Law Center, the Center for Teaching Quality, and Learning Matters. 

Leslie Graitcer, Board Member
Leslie Graitcer is the former Executive Director of the BellSouth Foundation. Since 2002 she has worked independently as a consultant and advisor with educational nonprofit organizations and foundations on issues related to public education reform in general and teaching quality in particular. Currently her primary consultancy is with the Public Education Foundation in Chattanooga, Tennessee. There, Ms Graitcer helped develop and implement the Osborne Fellows Initiative, an innovative master’s degree in urban education conceived as part of a comprehensive school reform and teacher retention strategy for the urban Benwood Schools in Chattanooga. She also collaborated with the Ochs Center for Metropolitan Studies on a set of research regarding teaching quality attributes in Hamilton County schools. The publications, The Lasting Difference and Better Teachers, Smarter Students, resulted from those two sets of work developing teacher residency programs. Ms. Graitcer also continues to work, through her foundation clients and colleagues, with Grantmakers for Education, of which she was a founder. She began her career as a first grade teacher in the Philadelphia Public School System after training with the National Teacher Corps. She attended Smith College for her undergraduate degree and then went on to earn her master’s degree in education from Temple University as well as a master’s degree in public health from Harvard University.

James A. Kelly, Board Member   
Mr. Kelly is co-director of the Strategic Management of Human Capital (SMHC) project, a major initiative of the Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE). With significant funding from the Carnegie, Gates, Ford and Joyce foundations, the SMHC project is intended to improve the performance of large urban school districts by helping these districts attract highly talented teachers and principals, and radically improve their human resource management systems. Mr. Kelly has had a distinguished career in education policy, education finance, philanthropy, and teaching standards, assessment, and certification. For twelve years he was founding president and chief executive officer of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS), where he helped to create National Board Certification (NBC), an advanced professional certification program for accomplished elementary and secondary school teachers. Almost all states provide recognition for NBC; more than 40 states and hundreds of local school districts provide additional compensation to National Board Certified Teachers. Prior to his time at NBPTS, Kelly served eleven years as program officer at the Ford Foundation, where he influenced state education finance and tax policies to make their support for education more equitable. Earlier he was on the faculty of Teachers College, Columbia University, was responsible for education policy at the National Urban Coalition, and worked in Pakistan to help establish the Institute of Education and Research at Punjab University. Mr. Kelly began his career as a public school teacher and administrator in Ladue, Missouri. His M.A. degree is from the University of Chicago and his Ph.D. is from Stanford University, with concentrations in political science, economics, and education. Since retiring from the NBPTS in 1999, Kelly has served as a senior advisor to Atlantic Philanthropies, the World Bank, the Asia Society, the National Academy of Sciences’ Strategic Education Research (SERP) Committee, Widmeyer Communications, Standard & Poors, and the Henry Ford Learning Institute. He has served on the executive board of the Consortium for Educational Policy Research and the Board of Overseers of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, and is a board member of the Center for Teaching Quality. He is co-chair of Learning to Give, a non-profit project that has worked with teachers to develop over a thousand teaching units to help students learn about philanthropy, volunteerism and community service.  Mr, Kelly also serves as a board member of Musica Sacra, a professional choral music organization that performs regularly at Carnegie Hall and other New York venues.  At Cranbrook Educational Community in Bloomfield Hills, MI, he is co-chair of the Cranbrook Art Museum Committee, a member of the Governing Board of the Cranbrook Art Academy, and a member of the Collections Committee.

Tom Lambeth, Board Member, Chair Emeritus of Center for Teaching Quality
Tom Lambeth is the former Executive Director (1978-2000) and now Senior Fellow at The Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation (ZSR). Mr. Lambeth has been chair and member of the Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina -- his Alma Mater -- which has honored him with a Distinguished Alumnus Award, the Williams Richardson Davie Award and an Alumni Association Distinguished Service Award. He holds honorary degrees from Wake Forest University and Pfeiffer College. Before his work at ZSR, Mr. Lambeth served as Chief of Staff to Governor Terry Sanford and to Congressman L. Richardson Preyer and as a staff member of the Smith Richardson Foundation. He has received Lifetime Achievement Awards from both the North Carolina 4H (2006) and NC Action for Children (2007). Mr. Lambeth also serves as Chair of the Board for the NC Rural Center, the BB&T Mutual Funds group, and the BB&T Variable Insurance Funds group. Mr. Lambeth’s commitment to North Carolina education efforts runs deep: he was born in Clayton, NC, and is an alumnus of public schools in High Point, Thomasville, Washington, and Statesville, NC. 

Sharon Robinson, Board Member
A nationally known leader in education rights for disadvantaged students, Dr. Robinson is President and CEO of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE). The former President of the Educational Testing Service’s Educational Policy Leadership Institute, she is a lifelong civil rights activist who earned her doctorate from the University of Kentucky. Before joining ETS, Dr. Robinson was assistant secretary of education with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Educational Research and Improvement. She also held a variety of leadership positions at the National Education Association, including director of the National Center for Innovation, NEA’s research and development arm, and she has served as interim deputy director of the National PTA’s Programs and Legislation office. Her many awards include an honorary doctorate from the University of Louisville, the Award of Appreciation from the National Head Start Association, and the Girl Scouts’ Women of Distinction Award.  Dr. Robinson serves on the boards of the Alfred Harcourt Foundation and Jobs for America’s Graduates, and she has chaired the Measurement Committee of the National Council for Measurement in Education. 

Robert Sexton, Board Member
Robert F. Sexton has been the executive director of the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence since its creation in 1983. A Louisville native, he has also been the deputy director of the Kentucky Council on Higher Education, an administrator at the University of Kentucky and a professor of history. A graduate of Yale University, Dr. Sexton earned his Ph.D. in history from the University of Washington. He was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University and at the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University. He has been recognized widely for his efforts to improve public education, receiving the Charles A. Dana Award for Pioneering Achievement and honorary degrees from Berea College, Georgetown College, and Eastern Kentucky University. The Louisville Courier-Journal wrote that Sexton is Kentucky’s “incomparable public policy advocate.” Kentucky Monthly magazine identified him as one of the most influential Kentuckians of the twentieth century. Dr. Sexton was a founder of Kentucky's Governor's Scholars Program and the Commonwealth Institute for Teachers. He was also the founder and president of the Kentucky Center for Public Issues and publisher of The Kentucky Journal. At the national level Sexton serves the boards of Editorial Projects in Education (publishers of Education Week and Teacher Magazine) and the Education Trust, and the advisory board of the Campaign for Educational Equity. He has served on advisory groups for the BellSouth, Danforth, and Ford foundations and for the Public Education Network (PEN). His book Mobilizing Citizens for Better Schools, was published in early 2004 by Teachers College Press of Columbia University.

Gwynn Virostek, Board Member
Gwynn Virostek is the Senior Vice President and South Florida Group Manager for Washington Mutual and serves as the 2006-2007 Chairman for the Florida Bankers Association.