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David Coleman is the ninth president of the College Board. The College Board designs the SAT Reasoning Test (SAT) and the Advanced Placement (AP) tests. The press has described him as "the architect" of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.[1] Coleman was named to the 2013 Time 100, the magazine’s annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.[2] He has been recognized as one of Time magazine’s “11 Education Activists for 2011”[3] and was one of the NewSchools Venture Fund Change Agents of the Year for 2012.[4]

Education and early career

Coleman went to public school in New York City, PS 41, IS 70 and, Stuyvesant High School.[5] He attended college at Yale University. While at Yale, he tutored secondary students in reading in the Ulysses S. Grant program for low-income New Haven students and started Branch–an innovative community service program that worked with students at an inner city New Haven high school. Based on the success of Branch, Coleman received a Rhodes Scholarship, which he used to study English literature at Oxford University and classical philosophy at Cambridge University.[6] He returned to New York and applied for a high school teaching job but was turned down, so he went to work at McKinsey & Company, where he advised urban school districts for five years.

Together with a team of educators, Coleman then founded the Grow Network, an organization committed to revise assessment. The Grow Network delivered quality reports for parents and teachers as well as individualized learning guides for students. McGraw-Hill acquired the organization in 2004. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.[7]

Coleman left McGraw-Hill in 2007 and co-founded Student Achievement Partners, a nonprofit that assembles educators and researchers to design actions based on evidence to improve student outcomes. Student Achievement Partners played a leading role in developing the Common Core State Standards in math and literacy.[8] As a Founding Partner, Coleman helped lead Student Achievement Partners' work to contribute to the Common Core State Standards.

Coleman served as a founding member on the board of Michelle Rhee's StudentsFirst.[9] He left StudentsFirst and Student Achievement Partners and joined the College Board as its president in October, 2012.

The Common Core

In 2009 the National Governors Association hired Student Achievement to write curriculum standards in the areas of literacy and mathematics instruction. The standards have been adopted by all states the District of Columbia, except Alaska, Minnesota, Nebraska, Texas, and Virginia. Student Achievement promoted the adoption of the Common Core standards.[10] The Common Core has created a national market for book publishers and test developers.[11] Beginning in the 2014 to 2015 school year, schools will begin using standardized exams along with the Common Core's standards.[12]

The College Board

On May 16, 2012 the College Board chose Coleman as its president.[13]

Personal Biography

David Coleman is the son of Elizabeth Coleman, president of Bennington College. His father is a psychiatrist. [14]

References

  1. ^ Joanna Weiss, "Required reading, or just misread?" Boston Globe, December 16, 2013 http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2012/12/16/common-core-misconception-not-plants-versus-shakespeare/y4n3u3R4WtXJJzkSgj7JcI/story.html
  2. ^ Jeb Bush, "The 2013 TIME 100: David Coleman", TIME Magazine, April 18, 2013
  3. ^ Andrew J. Rotherham, "David Coleman: The Architect", TIME Magazine, January 6, 2011
  4. ^ NewSchools Venture Fund, "Social Entrepreneurs Honored for Contributions to Public Education", NewSchools Venture Fund, May 8, 2012
  5. ^ "Bringing the Common Core to Life" David Coleman, Albany, NY, April 28, 2011, Part 2,Introduction to the Common Core State Standards http://usny.nysed.gov/rttt/docs/bringingthecommoncoretolife/part2transcript.pdf
  6. ^ Dana Goldstein, "The Schoolmaster" The Atlantic October 2012, http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/10/the-schoolmaster/309091
  7. ^ "Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed" McGraw-Hill Education Acquires Grow Network Establishes Leadership Position in Assessment Reporting and Customized Content "McGraw Hill Financial" July 19, 2004 http://investor.mhfi.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=96562&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=592486&highlight=
  8. ^ Anthony Cody, "The Secret Sixty Prepare to Write Standards for 50 Million" Education Week, July 6, 2009 http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/living-in-dialogue/2009/07/national_standards_process_ign.html.
  9. ^ Stephen Sawchuck, "Common-Core Architect Helped Launch Rhee Advocacy Group" Education Week, May 29, 2012 http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/teacherbeat/2012/05/common_core_architect_helped_r.html.
  10. ^ "College Board Names David Coleman New President" College Board, May 16, 2012 http://press.collegeboard.org/releases/2012/college-board-names-david-coleman-new-president
  11. ^ Joanne Weiss, "The Innovation Mismatch: "Smart Capital" and Education Innovation", Harvard Business Review Blog, March 31, 2011 http://blogs.hbr.org/innovations-in-education/2011/03/the-innovation-mismatch-smart.html
  12. ^ Dana Goldstein, "The Schoolmaster" The Atlantic October 2012, http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/10/the-schoolmaster/309091/
  13. ^ "College Board Names David Coleman New President" College Board, May 16, 2012 http://press.collegeboard.org/releases/2012/college-board-names-david-coleman-new-president
  14. ^ http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/10/the-schoolmaster/309091/


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