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Teachers College, Columbia University
Teachers College
Columbia University

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11/12/2007 ~ 11/13/2007 at  Cowin Center, Teachers College

Paul Reville

President
Rennie Center for Education Research and Policy

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Paul Reville is the president of the Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy, an independent, policy and research organization dedicated to the improvement of pre K-12 public education, especially in Massachusetts. The Rennie Center conducts research, convenes policy makers and shapers, and advocates for solutions to the state and nation’s most formidable, educational challenges. Paul is also the Director of the Education Policy and Management Program and 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.

Paul 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 1991-96, 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 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 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. Later he founded a local education fund servicing Worcester and central Massachusetts.

He recently served on Governor Deval Patrick’s Transition Team and later served as chair of the Governor’s Pre-K – 12 Task Force on Governance. He is a trustee of Wheelock College and the Nativity School of Worcester, and serves on numerous other boards and advisory committees. He is a graduate of Colorado College and holds a Master''s degree from Stanford University.

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