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Mike Smith
Mike Smith Returns to Ed. Dept. as a Senior Adviser “I’m working with a team on the implementation of the stimulus package, which is a big part of my time, and other duties as requested by the secretary,” said Smith, who served as both the undersecretary and acting deputy secretary at the federal agency for seven years during the Clinton administration.
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/campaign-k-12/2009/02/mike_smith_returns_to_ed_dept.html
Director for education at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
Smith has directed the education program at the Hewlett Foundation since 2001. He was Under Secretary in the U.S. Department of Education from 1993 to 2000 and Acting Deputy Secretary from 1996 to 2000. In those roles, he directed the development and enactment of Goals 2000 and other major federal legislative initiatives and served as chief operating officer of the 5,000-person federal agency. Smith was dean of the Stanford University School of Education from 1986 to 1993 and director of the Wisconsin Center for Education Research from 1980 to 1986. He taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Education from 1976 to 1996, after earning a bachelor's degree at Harvard College and graduate degrees at the HGSE. Smith is a widely published education researcher. He is a member of the National Academy of Education and a former chairman of the board of the American Institutes of Research. He has served on numerous commissions and committees of the National Research Council and been a consultant to many government agencies, foundations, and non-profit organizations such as the Education Testing Service, and to foreign governments.
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