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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

Robert Sexton

Executive Director
Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence

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Robert F. Sexton is the founding executive director of the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence, an independent, state-wide, non-partisan, advocacy group dedicated to the improvement of education in Kentucky. He is a former 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 received a Ph.D. from the University of Washington and honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Berea College, Georgetown College and Eastern Kentucky University. He has been a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University and at the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University. Throughout his career, Dr. Sexton has supported and been a founder of numerous educational institutions, most notably the Kentucky’s Governor’s Scholars Program and the Commonwealth Institute for Teachers. He also served as a board member of the American Association for Higher Education, the Coalition for Alternatives in Postsecondary Education, and the Kentucky Center for Public Issues. He has also been the publisher of the Kentucky Journal and co-chair of the Carnegie Literacy Center in Lexington. His book Mobilizing Citizens for Better Schools, was published in early 2004 by the Teachers College Press.

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