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Advisors Anthony Carnavale
One of the nation’s leading authorities on education, training and employment, Anthony Carnavale serves as research professor and director of the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. Between 1996 and 2006, he served as Vice President for Public Leadership at the Educational Testing Service (ETS). He has held senior staff positions in the U.S. Senate, House of Representatives and executive branch, including serving on the White House Commission on Technology and Adult Education. He has also worked with several private-sector organizations and is a widely published author. He received his B.A. from Colby College and his Ph.D. from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. Marc Porter Magee
Marc Porter Magee is Chief Operating Officer of Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now (ConnCAN), a non-profit dedicated to bridging the achievement gap that affects students along socioecomic and racial lines. Prior to joining ConnCAN, Marc worked in Washington, D.C., as research director of the Partnership for Public Service, founding director of the Progressive Policy Institute’s Center for Civic Enterprise, and as a contributing editor of the policy journal Blueprint. He is co-editor, with Will Marshall, of the book The AmeriCorps Experiment (PPI). He is a graduate of Georgetown University and received both a Master’s and Doctoral degree from Duke University. Thomas L. Webber
Tom Webber was the founding Superintendent/Executive Director of Edwin Gould Academy, a co-educational residence for adolescents in the foster care and juvenile justice systems. He served in that role for fifteen years. Located in Rockland County, New York, the Academy was a 1998 winner of the Innovations in American Government Award presented jointly by the Ford Foundation and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Before becoming leader of the Academy, Dr. Webber was the Dean of Special Programs at Metropolitan College in New York City. A life-long resident of East Harlem, Tom served for seven years as an elected member of Community School Board #4. He is a much sought-after speaker on the issues of inner-city education, race, and youth. Dr. Webber graduated Harvard College and received his Ph.D. in education from Columbia. He is the author of the acclaimed study of slave life in the antebellum south, Deep Like the Rivers, and most recently of a memoir about his experiences growing up in East Harlem entitled, Flying over 96th Street. Tom stepped down as the head of Edwin Gould Academy in 2005 and currently works as a consultant to the Edwin Gould Foundation for Children and as an adjunct professor at the Hunter College Graduate School of Education. 
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