A Decade of Urban School Reform

Paul Reville, a lecturer on educational policy and politics and director of the Education Policy and Management Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is president of the Rennie Center for Education Research and Policy, an independent, policy organization dedicated to the improvement of preK–12 public education. The Rennie Center conducts research, convenes policy leaders, and advocates for solutions to significant educational challenges. Reville is the former executive director of the Pew Forum on Standards-Based Reform, a Harvard-based national education policy think tank that convened the United States’ leading researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to shape the national “standards”agenda. He was founding executive director of the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education, an organization that provided key conceptual and political leadership for the Education Reform Act of 1993. From 1991 to 1996 he served on the Massachusetts State Board of Education, where he chaired the Massachusetts Commission on Time and Learning. From 1996 to 2003, Reville chaired the Massachusetts Education Reform Review Commission, a mandated public commission charged with providing research and oversight of the state’s role in implementing education reform. In 1985, Reville was founding executive director of the Alliance for Education, a multiservice educational improvement organization serving Worcester and central Massachusetts. He is a former teacher and principal and a frequent writer and speaker on school reform and educational policy issues.