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Valley Patriot Contributor,
Sandra Stotsky Named
to National Mathematics Advisory Panel
 Sandra Stotsky, a Brookline
resident, and contributor to The Valley Patriot was just
appointed to the President’s National Mathematics
Advisory Panel.
The Panel’s mission, according to U.S. Secretary of
Education Margaret Spellings, is to advise President Bush
and Secretary Spellings on the best use of scientifically
based research to advance the teaching and learning of
mathematics.
Now an independent researcher and consultant in
education, Sandra Stotsky was Senior Associate
Commissioner at the Massachusetts Department of Education
from 1999 to 2003.
During that period, she directed complete revisions of
the state’s licensing regulations for teachers,
administrators, and teacher training schools, the
state’s tests for teacher licensure, and the
state’s PreK-12 standards for mathematics, history
and social science, English language arts and reading,
science and technology/engineering, early childhood
(preschool), and instructional technology. She
planned and directed two major research projects on
middle school mathematics education and a number of
research reports on various curricular areas in
PreK-12.
In addition, she planned and directed statewide
conferences for the Department on history education,
character education, mathematics education, and
Structured English Immersion. She also helped
to shape policies on teacher professional development and
license renewal, and supervised the review of proposals
from school districts for state and federal funds for
professional development activities.
From 1984 to 2000, she was a research associate at the
Harvard Graduate School of Education affiliated with the
Philosophy of Education Research Center
(PERC). For 12 years, she directed a summer
institute on civic education at the Harvard Graduate
School of Education, sponsored by the Lincoln and Therese
Filene Foundation.
From 1991-1997, she served as editor of Research in the
Teaching of English, the research journal sponsored by
the National Council of Teachers of English.
On a consultant basis from 1992 to 2002, she worked for
the United States Information Service and the U.S. State
Department on the development of civic education programs
in Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, and Romania with educators
and ministry officials from Eastern Europe.
Stotsky has taught elementary school, French and German
at the high school level, and undergraduate and graduate
courses in reading, children’s literature, and
writing pedagogy.
She is editor of What’s at Stake in the K-12
Standards Wars: A Primer for Educational Policy Makers
(Peter Lang, 2000) and author of Losing Our Language
(Free Press, 1999, reprinted by Encounter Books,
2002). Her publications address many areas and
disciplines in education and include “School-related
influences on grade 8 mathematics performance in
Massachusetts”(Third Education Group Review, 2005)
and Progress in Mathematics Research Base (a 2005 review
of mathematics education research and related reading
research, for W.H. Sadlier, Inc.).
She currently serves as Chair of the Sadlier-Oxford
Mathematics Advisory Board and is a member of the
Advisory Board for: the Advanced Math and Science Academy
Charter School, Marlborough, Massachusetts; the Shimer
University Core Knowledge Educational Initiative; Pioneer
Institute’s Center for School Reform; and the Carus
Publishing Company.
She is also a member of the Board of Directors for the
National Association of Scholars, the Academic Advisory
Board for the Curriculum Watch Committee of the National
Hadassah Organization, and the ERIC Steering Committee
for the U.S. Department of Education Institute of
Education Sciences.
She served on the Steering Committee for the National
Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading
assessment framework for 2009.
She received a B.A. degree with distinction from the
University of Michigan and a doctorate in reading
research and reading education with distinction from the
Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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