Speaker Biographies

October 25, 2005

Richard Lee Colvin is director of the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media at Teachers College, Columbia University. Before joining the institute, he was a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, where he wrote principally about state and national education policy issues and won a number of national awards. He also wrote about education for two other newspapers and has contributed to a number of education publications. He was a 2000-01 Michigan Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan.

Jane Hannaway, an organizational sociologist whose work focuses on the study of educational organizations, is director of the Education Policy Center at the Urban Institute. She has also been a senior researcher with the Consortium for Policy Research in Education and served on the faculty of Columbia, Princeton, and Stanford Universities. She has authored or coauthored four books and numerous papers in education and management journals, and has twice served as vice president of the American Educational Research Association.

Frederick M. Hess is director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute and executive editor of Education Next. His books include With the Best of Intentions, Urban School Reform, Common Sense School Reform, Revolution at the Margins, and Spinning Wheels. His work has appeared in scholarly and popular outlets like Teachers College Record, Social Science Quarterly, American Politics Quarterly, Education Week, Journal of Teacher Education, Phi Delta Kappan, and National Review. He serves as advisor to the Ash Institute at Harvard University and on various boards, including the review board for the Broad Prize in Urban Education and the research advisory board for the National Center for Educational Accountability. He formerly taught high school social studies and served as professor at the University of Virginia.

Bruno V. Manno is senior program associate for education with the Annie E. Casey Foundation in Baltimore, where he manages the Foundation’s investments in education initiatives. Before joining the Casey Foundation, Mr. Manno was senior fellow in the education policy studies program at the Hudson Institute. While there, he was a member of the Hudson research team involved in the Charter Schools in Action project, a national study of charter schools. He worked in the U.S. Department of Education from 1986 to 1993, holding several senior positions, including assistant secretary for policy and planning. He is coauthor of Charter Schools in Action: Renewing Public Education.

Edward Pauly is director of research and evaluation at the Wallace Foundation, where he and his staff lead the effort to gain knowledge from the foundation’s work on education leadership, after-school programs, and participation in the arts. He also serves as chair of Grantmakers for Effective Organizations. Before joining the Foundation, he was the first coordinator of education research for the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, and he has served on the faculty of Yale University’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies. Mr. Pauly has written two books, The Classroom Crucible: What Really Works, What Doesn’t, and Why and Homegrown Lessons: Innovative Programs Linking School and Work, and he is coauthor of From Welfare to Work. 

Stefanie Sanford serves as the senior policy officer for federal relations and national organizations in the east coast office of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Before joining the foundation, she was deputy director of policy for Texas Governor Rick Perry, managing the policy development process and advising on legislation related to educational technology, e-government, higher education, workforce development, and biotechnology. She has served as policy advisor to the Speaker of the Texas House and state Attorney General and was also a White House Fellow in the Office of Cabinet Affairs. She is active in numerous advisory committees and educational groups including the LBJ School of Public Affairs, the Annette Strauss Center for Civic Participation, and the Aspen Institute.

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