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Michael Joseph Feuer

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Michael Feuer is Dean of the Graduate School of Education and Human Development and Professor of Education Policy at The George Washington University, and immediate past-president of the National Academy of Education. Before coming to GW in 2010, Feuer held positions at the National Research Council of the National Academies: he was the founding director of the Board on Testing and Assessment, founding director of the Center for Education, and executive director of the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education. Prior to joining the NRC in 1993, Feuer was a senior analyst and project director at the US Congress Office of Technology Assessment.

Background and Academic Career

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Michael Feuer grew up in New York, where he attended public schools in Jamaica (Queens): PS 131, Van Wyck Junior High, and Jamaica High School (class of 1969). At Jamaica, Feuer was active in student politics and also in theater. He received his BA in English (cum laude) from Queens College (CUNY) in 1973, an MA in public management from the Wharton School in 1977, and a PhD in public policy analysis from the University of Pennsylvania School of Public and Urban Policy in 1980. He was on the faculty at Drexel University from 1981-1986, and has taught courses in education policy, mathematics for economists, and research methods at Penn and Georgetown. At Queens College, Feuer edited one of the two student newspapers, and was campus stringer to the New York Times.

In addition to many edited volumes and reports that Feuer managed and wrote while at OTA and the National Academies, he has written two books, both published by Harvard Education Press: The Rising Price of Objectivity: Philanthropy, Government, and the Future of Education Research (2016), and Moderating the Debate: Rationality and the Promise of American Education (2006). His essays, commentaries, and poems have appeared in newspapers, blogs, and magazines in the US and abroad. Feuer consults regularly to educational institutions and government in the US, Israel, Europe, and the Middle East.

Feuer was elected to the NAEd presidency in 2013. He is also an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the American Educational Research Association, co-chair of the Consortium for Applied Studies in Jewish Education (CASJE), and was appointed by President Barack Obama in 2014 as a member of the National Board for Education Sciences.

Feuer lives in Washington, DC, with his wife, Regine, a physician with board certification in obstetrics-gynecology and addiction medicine. The Feuers have two grown children.

References

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The Rising Price of Objectivity: Philanthropy, Government, and the Future of Education Research (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press, 2016).

Moderating the Debate: Rationality and the Promise of American Education (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press, 2006. (Focus of special issue of Educational Theory, vol. 59, 5, 2009)

"What Use is Educational Assessment?" The Annals, American Academy of Political and Social Science, May 2019 (with A. Berman and J. Pellegrino)

Evidence for Opportunity,” Editorial, Science, April 27, 2018, accessible at http://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6387/359.full

“Toward a Behavioral Science of Testing…and Testing Policy,” Harvard Education Press, Voices ,posted September 25, 2019, accessible at https://www.hepg.org/blog/toward-a-behavioral-science-of-testing-and-testing.

Past as Prologue: The National Academy of Education at 50, Washington, DC: National Academy of Education, November 2015 (with A. Berman and R. Atkinson)

Evaluation of Teacher Preparation Programs: Purposes, Methods, and Policy Options, Washington, DC: National Academy of Education, Fall 2013 (with R. Floden, N. Chudowsky, and J. Ahn)

Uncommon Measures: Linkage and Equivalence of Educational Tests, Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1999 (with P. Holland)

Transitions in Work and Learning: Implications for Assessment, Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1998 (with A. Lesgold)

Testing in American Schools: Asking the Right Questions, U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, March 1992 (with P. Morison and others)

Integrity Testing for Pre-employment Screening and Selection, U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, September 1990

Power On: New Tools for Teaching and Learning, Office of Technology Assessment, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, September 1988 (with L. Roberts and others)

“Teacher Preparation: Evaluation and Consequences,” Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, TeachingWorks, August 2015, accessible at http://www.teachingworks.org/training/seminar-series/working-papers

“On the merits of, and myths about International Assessments,” Quality Assurance in Education, Volume: 22 Issue: 4, 2014 (with L. Engel)

“Pure and Applied Science and Pasteur’s Quadrant,” in D. Philips, et al, Eds, Encyclopedia of Educational Theory, Sage, June 2014

“Validity of International Large-Scale Assessments: Truth and Consequences,” in M. Chatterji, ed., Validity and Test Use: An International Dialogue on Educational Assessment, Accountability and Equity. London: Emerald, 2013

“STEM Education: Progress and Prospects,” guest editor’s introduction to special issue of The Bridge, National Academy of Engineering, March 2013

“No Country Left Behind: Notes on the Rhetoric of International Comparisons of Education,” William Angoff Invited Lecture, Princeton: ETS, August 2012

“Politics, Economics, and Testing: Some Reflections,” Midwestern Educational Researcher, 24:1, Winter 2011

“Externalities of Testing: Lessons from the Blizzard of 2010,” Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 8: 59–69, 2010

“Science Advice as Procedural Rationality: Reflections on the National Research Council,” Minerva, 48: 259–275, 2010 (with C. Maranto).

“Rationality and Idealism: A Moderate Response to Bredo, Kerdeman, and Robertson,” Educational Theory, 59, No. 5, 2009 (special issue on Feuer, Moderating the Debate)

“Commentary: Disciplined Education Policy Research,” in Gary Sykes, Barbara Schneider, David N. Plank, eds, Handbook of Education Policy Research, American Education Research Association: Routledge, April 2009

“Future Directions for Educational Accountability: Notes for a Political Economy of Measurement,” in L. Shepard and K. Ryan, Eds. The Future of Test-based Educational Accountability, New York: Routledge, 2008

“Linking Tests and Democratic Education,” in C. Dwyer, ed., Measurement and Research in the Accountability Era, Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2005

“Scientific Culture and Education Research,” Educational Researcher, 31(8), 28-29, November 2002. Reprinted in: Ingrid Gogolin, et al., Standards und Standardisierungen in der Erziehungswissenschaft, Germany: Verlag, 2005 (with L. Towne and R. Shavelson)

“The National Academies,” in J. Guthrie et al., The Encyclopedia of Education, 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan, 2002 (with B. Alberts)

“School Choice and the Diversity of Schools,” Georgetown Public Policy Review, spring 1997 (with L. Towne, A. Burns, and M. Rubio)

“Social Policy and Intelligence,” in R. Sternberg, ed., Encyclopedia of Intelligence, Boston: Macmillan, 1994

“Firm-Financed Education and Specific Human Capital: A Test of the Insurance Hypothesis,” in D. Stern and J. Ritzen, Eds: Market Failure in Training? New Economic Analysis and Evidence on Training of Employed Adults, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1992 (with H. Glick and A. Desai)

“Is Firm-Sponsored Education Viable?” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, spring 1987, pp. 121-136 (with H. Glick and A. Desai)

“Sensitivity Analysis of Promotion Opportunities in Graded Organizations,” Journal of the Operational Research Society (U.K.), 10, 35, October 1984 (with A. P. Schinnar)

“Connect the Dots,” commencement remarks, Graduate School of Education and Human Development (GW), May 2019, accessible at https://gsehd.gwu.edu/blogs/feuer-consideration/connect-dots

“A note of thanks from a Washingtonian,” Helena (MT) Independent Record, December 18, 2017

“What is it about The New Yorker?” Times of Israel, September 7, 2017, accessible at http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/what-is-it-about-the-new-yorker/

“Private Charity, Government Spending, and Education Accountability: Myths and Realities,” July 24, 2017, accessible at https://gsehd.gwu.edu/blogs/feuer-consideration/private-charity-government-spending-and-education-accountability-myths-and