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Date sent:        Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:52:04 -0600
To:               Education Consumers Clearinghouse <EDUCATION-CONSUMERS@tricon.net>
From:             Jeanne Donovan <eca@fastlane.net>
Subject:          PBS bio on Marc Tucker


Dear ECC:


I wrote to PBS when I read about Tucker doing an online forum, and
requested a vita on him. What they gave me is a truncated bio, which is
probably all he provided them, but I'm sending it along anyway for anyone
new on the loop who may only know Tucker by name and his connection to
school-to-work.


Jeanne Donovan, Coordinator
Texas Education Consumers Assoc.
http://www.fastlane.net/~eca




Marc S. Tucker


Marc S. Tucker is President of the National Center on Education and the

Economy, a nonprofit organization engaged in policy analysis and
development, institutional design and technical assistance in education and
human resources.  He created the National Alliance for Restructuring
Education and the Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce.


Mr. Tucker serves as Co-Director of New Standards, a national program to
create internationally-benchmarked academic standards and matching
performance examinations for the schools. He served as Staff Director of
the group that created the National Board for Professional Teaching
Standards and as the Board's first President.


Mr. Tucker was co-author of "Thinking For A Living: Education and the
Wealth of Nations", winner of the Sidney Hillman Prize for 1992. Mr. Tucker

is also the co-author of "Standards For Our Schools:  How to Set Them,
Measure Them, and Reach Them."


Mr. Tucker chairs the standards, assessment and certification policy
committee of the National Skill Standards Board, to which he was appointed
by President Clinton in 1994. In that capacity, he is responsible for
leading the design of the national occupational skill standards system
called for in the legislation.


Prior to forming the National Center on Education and the Economy, Mr.
Tucker served as Executive Director of the Carnegie Forum on Education and
the Economy and Associate Director of the National Institute of Education,
where he directed the Instituteis policy research program.


Mr. Tucker was educated at Brown, Yale and George Washington University.








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