Paul Reville | |
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Massachusetts Secretary of Education | |
In office 2008–2013 | |
Governor | Deval Patrick |
Preceded by | office established |
Succeeded by | Matthew Malone |
Paul Reville is a U.S. politician,teacher,school principal,and educational researcher who was the Massachusetts Secretary of Education from 2008 to 2013 under Governor Deval Patrick. He currently serves as the Francis Keppel Professor of Practice of Educational Policy and Administration at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Paul Reville is the Francis Keppel Professor of Practice of Educational Policy and Administration at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). He is the founding director of HGSE's EdRedesign Lab. In 2013,he served for nearly half a decade as the Secretary of Education for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. As Governor Patrick's top education adviser,Reville established a new Executive Office of Education and had oversight of higher education,K-12,and early education in the nation's leading student achievement state. He served in the Governor's Cabinet and played a leading education reform role on matters ranging from the Achievement Gap Act of 2010 and Common Core State Standards to the Commonwealth's highly successful Race to the Top proposal.
Prior to joining the Patrick Administration,Reville chaired the Massachusetts State Board of Education,founded the Rennie Center for Education Research and Policy,co-founded the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education (MBAE),chaired the Massachusetts Reform Review Commission,chaired the Massachusetts Commission on Time and Learning,and served as executive director of the Pew Forum on Standards-Based Reform,a national think tank which convened the U.S.'s leading researchers,practitioners,and policymakers to set the national standards agenda. Reville played a central role in MBAE's development of and advocacy for Massachusetts historic Education Reform Act of 1993. Reville has been a member of the HGSE faculty since 1997 and has served as director of the Education Policy and Management Program.
Reville's career,which combines research,policy,and practice,began with service as a VISTA volunteer/youth worker. He served as a teacher and principal of two urban,alternative high schools. Some years later,he founded a local education foundation which was part of the Public Education Network. He is a board member and adviser to a host of organizations,including BELL,Match Education,Bellwether,City Year Boston,Harvard Medical School's MEDscience and others. He is a frequent writer and speaker on education reform and policy issues. He is also the educator commentator,Boston Public Radio,WGBH. Paul Reville holds a Bachelor of Arts from Colorado College and a Master of Arts from Stanford University,along with five honorary doctorate degrees. [1]
During his tenure as Massachusetts Secretary of Education,Reville faced calls for resignation over his promotion of charter schools.</ref>By contrast,Reville himself has criticized the prevalence of for-profit charter schools in Michigan in 2016.
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