The Broad Prize Review Board
A distinguished group of the country’s top educational leaders serves as the Review Board for The Broad Prize for Urban Education. Review Board members examine performance indicators, demographic statistics and other information about the urban school districts that are eligible for The Broad Prize. Based on their examination, the Review Board narrows the list of 100 eligible school districts to the five finalists.
A separate Selection Jury determines the winner from among the five finalists.
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2010 Broad Prize Review Board Members*
Anne L. Bryant
Executive Director, National School Boards Association
Anne L. Bryant is the executive director of the National School Boards Association, a national federation of state school board associations. Bryant also is on the board of directors of Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) and was the Association Trends Executive of the Year in 2005.
Carl A. Cohn
Clinical Professor of Urban School Leadership, Claremont Graduate University
Former Superintendent, San Diego Unified School District
Former Superintendent, Long Beach Unified School District, Calif.
Carl A. Cohn is distinguished leader-in-residence at the College of Education at San Diego State University. Most recently, he served as superintendent of schools in the San Diego Unified School District. Prior to that assignment, he worked as a clinical professor at the University of Southern California and as federal court monitor for the special education consent decree in the Los Angeles school system. From 1992-2002, he was superintendent of the Long Beach Unified School District.
Christopher Cross
Chairman, Cross & Joftus
Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education
Christopher Cross formed Cross & Joftus, LLC in 2004 to provide education leaders with personalized and expert assistance in policy analysis and development, evaluation, executive coaching, planning and communication strategies. Cross is a former senior fellow with the Center on Education Policy and a distinguished senior fellow with the Education Commission of the States. Previously, he served as president and CEO of the Council for Basic Education, and as an assistant secretary of education under President George H.W. Bush.
Charles Desmond
Chairman, Massachusetts Board of Higher Education
Charles Desmond was appointed chairman of the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education by Governor Deval Patrick in 2008. Desmond previously served as the executive vice president of the Massachusetts-based Trefler Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to improving educational opportunities and success for Boston's urban youth. He was also on the steering committee of Urban Serving Universities, a national network of 19 urban universities.
Dan Goldhaber
Research Professor and Editor, Education, Finance and Policy
Center on Reinventing Public Education, University of Washington
Dan Goldhaber is a research professor at the University of Washington Bothell’s Center on Reinventing Public Education, an affiliated scholar at the Urban Institute’s Education Policy Center, and a senior non-resident fellow at Education Sector. He also serves as the principal investigator of the Center for Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER): Washington team and is a member of CALDER's Strategic Planning Group. Goldhaber previously served as an elected member of the Alexandria City School Board from 1997-2002. His research focuses on issues of educational productivity and reform at the K-12 level, and the relationship between teacher labor markets and teacher quality.
Jane Hannaway
Director, Education Policy Center, Urban Institute
Jane Hannaway is founding director of the Education Policy Center at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C. She is also the director of a federally funded research center, Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), focused on analyses of state longitudinal student and teacher level administrative data bases, particularly analyses associated with teacher labor markets. Hannaway previously served on the faculty of Columbia, Princeton and Stanford universities.
Eric Hanushek
Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution of Stanford University
Eric Hanushek is the Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. Hanushek is also chairman of the executive committee for the Texas Schools Project at the University of Texas at Dallas, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and chair of the National Board for Education Sciences.
Karen Hawley Miles
Executive Director and Founder, Education Resource Strategies
Karen Hawley Miles is executive director and founder of Education Resource Strategies, specializing in strategic planning, organization and resource allocation in urban public school districts. She has taught school leaders at Harvard University, in school districts, with New Leaders for New Schools, and with The Broad Institute for School Boards. Prior to her work at Education Resource Strategies, she was a strategy and management consultant for hospitals and corporations at Bain & Company.
Frederick Hess
Resident Scholar and Director of Education Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute
Frederick Hess is director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute and author of several books on schooling and education reform. Hess is also executive editor of the journal Education Next and a faculty member at institutions including the University of Pennsylvania and Rice University.
Phyllis Hunter
Education Consultant
Phyllis C. Hunter is a consultant in the area of reading. She has been an elementary school principal, middle school assistant principal, mentor teacher and speech therapist. Formerly an administrator with the Houston Independent School District, Hunter managed the reading department for the district’s 282 schools. In 2003, former President George W. Bush nominated her to serve as a member of the National Institute for Literacy. Hunter was also a consultant for Texas Statewide Reading Initiatives. She is a National Fellow of the Institute for Learning and an executive board member of the Consortium for Policy Research in Education and the National Center for Family Literacy.
Sandy Kress
Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Sandy Kress is an attorney at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP in Austin, Texas, focusing on public law and policy at the state and national levels and is a former education advisor to President George W. Bush. He previously served as president of the board of trustees of the Dallas Independent School District.
Thomas W. Payzant
Professor of Practice, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Former Superintendent, Boston Public Schools
Thomas W. Payzant is a senior lecturer on education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. From 1995 to 2006, he served as superintendent of Boston Public Schools, which won The Broad Prize in 2006 after being a finalist for four years. Before Boston, he was superintendent of San Diego Unified School District for nearly 11 years, superintendent of Oklahoma City Public Schools for three years, superintendent of the Eugene Public Schools in Oregon for more than five years, and superintendent in suburban Philadelphia for four years. In addition, Payzant served as President Bill Clinton’s assistant secretary for elementary and secondary education from 1993 to 1995.
Delia Pompa
Vice President for Education, National Council of La Raza
Delia Pompa is the vice president for education at the National Council of La Raza, where she oversees programs ranging from early college high schools and charter schools to pre-kindergarten and early childhood education. She is the former director of the Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs in the U.S. Department of Education. Pompa also served as the executive director of the National Association for Bilingual Education where she positioned the organization as the premier representative of second language learners and immigrant students. She has served as director of education, adolescent pregnancy prevention and youth development for the Children’s Defense Fund and as an assistant commissioner for the Texas Education Agency. Pompa began her career as a kindergarten teacher in Texas and then served as the executive director for Bilingual Programs and Early Childhood Education for the Houston Independent School District.
Wendy Puriefoy
President, Public Education Network
Wendy D. Puriefoy is president of Public Education Network (PEN), the nation’s largest network of community-based school reform organizations. Puriefoy has been involved in public schools and education reform since the 1970s when she served as a special monitor to Judge Arthur W. Garrity during the court-ordered desegregation of Boston’s public schools. Prior to Public Education Network, Puriefoy was executive vice president and chief operating officer of The Boston Foundation. She currently serves on the boards of the Independent Sector, the Children’s Defense Fund, Annenberg Institute for School reform, and DEMOS, a policy think-tank focused on democratic forms of government.
Andrew Rotherham
Co-Founder and Partner, Bellwether Education
Andrew Rotherham is co-founder and partner of Bellwether Education, offering specialized professional services and thought leadership to the entrepreneurial education reform field. Rotherham previously served as special assistant to the president for domestic policy during the Clinton Administration and on the state board of education in
Roger Sampson
President, Education Commission of the States
Roger Sampson is president of the Education Commission of the States, a non-partisan organization that brings together key leaders-governors, legislators, chief state school officers, higher education officials, business leaders and others to work together to improve education. Prior to that, Sampson was commissioner of the Alaska State Board of Education & Early Development. Sampson has served in a variety of roles and positions in public schools, including school administrator in both rural and urban Alaska.
John Simpson
Education Consultant, JOS Simpson and Associates
Former Superintendent, Norfolk Public Schools, Va.
John Simpson is an education consultant serving as faculty/advisor and superintendent-in-residence to The Broad Superintendents Academy, and an associate with Hazard, Young and Attea, LLC. Previously he was senior executive and director of the District Alliance Program at the Stupski Foundation. Simpson has served as superintendent of Norfolk Public Schools, Ann Arbor Public Schools and North Chicago Community Unit, District 187. He has also served as director of elementary schools, principal, assistant principal and teacher in Oklahoma, Washington D.C., Delaware and Pennsylvania. Simpson was president of the Large City School Superintendents, and the Horace Mann League, and is on the board of visitors of Eastern Virginia Medical College, the accountability review council for the Recovery School District for the Louisiana Department of Education and the board of directors for The New Teacher Project.
Gene Wilhoit
Executive Director, Council of Chief State School Officers
Gene Wilhoit is executive director of the Council of Chief State School Officers. He served as a program director in the Indiana Department of Education, an administrator in Kanawha County, W.Va., and a special assistant in the U.S. Department of Education before assuming the position of executive director of the National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE), which he held from 1986 to 1993. He then became director of the Arkansas Department of Education and deputy commissioner and commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Education. Wilhoit began his career as a social studies teacher in Ohio and Indiana.
*The following review board members did not participate in the 2010 Broad Prize finalist selection process: Jo Lynne DeMary and Paul Hill.