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"The bottom line is that ANet data provides real and immediate snapshots of student performance…[we] can use this data for restructuring programs and (re)deploying resources and the teachers can use this data for planning lessons and tutoring groups."
-Academy of the Pacific Rim Charter Public School, Hyde Park, Massachusetts

“The Achievement Network's work with disaggregating data, creating more rigorous assessments, and the coaching process has added a tremendous amount of value to what we do on a daily basis toward increasing student achievement. I would recommend ANet to any school leader who wants to focus on student achievement.” -Medard H. Nelson Elementary School, New Orleans, Louisiana

"We believe that an ongoing, targeted data cycle with assessments aligned to the standards and MCAS is our best bet for boosting student achievement…having someone else to create the tests, "crunch the numbers," and support us with our analysis helps us use our limited professional development time to create instructional action plans based on the data outcomes."
-Emily Glasgow, Roosevelt K-8, Boston Public Schools

“Prospect Hill Academy has had an excellent experience with The Achievement Network and the support provided by ANet. [ANet] is doing an exceptional job of providing support to a large group of leaders in a year of growth at PHA.” –Prospect Hill Academy Charter School, Somerville, Massachusetts

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Apr072011

Board

Lawrence Coolidge, Chair

Mr. Coolidge is a Trustee of Loring, Wolcott & Coolidge, a professional family office that offers a wide range of highly personalized fiduciary services. Mr. Coolidge joined Loring, Wolcott & Coolidge in 1962. He is a member of the Boston Security Analysts Society and the Boston Economic Club. Mr. Coolidge serves on the board of the Seven Islands Land Company, and is an Honorary Trustee of the Boston Athenaeum and the Peabody Essex Museum. Mr. Coolidge is the managing trustee of the George H. and Jane A. Mifflin Memorial Fund, which provided the start-up funding for Massachusetts Public School Performance. Mr. Coolidge and his wife Nancy Myers Coolidge have been very active in various education reform efforts during the past decade. Mr. Coolidge is a graduate of Harvard College and holds a MBA from Harvard Business School.

Leslye Arsht, Governance Committee Chair

Leslye Arsht served as Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Military Community and Family Policy, with responsibility for the K-12 Department of Defense worldwide school system, she initiated the development of a partnership between  those schools and the public schools off the bases that  most military students attend, and  advanced troop and spouse voluntary education. She is a former Senior Advisor to the Ministry of Education in Iraq, where she helped the Coalition Provisional Authority restart the school system. Ms. Arsht founded StandardsWork, Inc., a non-profit education consulting firm. Before serving as a counselor to now U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander during his term as U.S. Secretary of Education, she was the associate vice chancellor for news and public affairs at Vanderbilt University. Ms. Arsht also served as a deputy press secretary and deputy assistant to President Ronald Reagan from 1986 to 1988. Ms. Arsht is the chairman of StandardsWork's Board, a Trustee of the Council on Accreditation, and a Senior Advisor to Care.com.

Stephen Kraus, Finance Committee Chair

Stephen Kraus is a partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, a private venture capital firm. He has worked with Bessemer since 2004 from their Cambridge, MA office and focuses on the healthcare sector. He currently sits on the boards of Verastem, Stromedix and On-Q-ity. Prior to joining Bessemer, Steve was a director at the Ironwood Equity Fund, a growth-stage, private-equity firm, and a management consultant at Bain & Co. In 2002, he served as speechwriter and operations director for the Democratic nominee for governor of Massachusetts. Steve graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. from Yale University and earned his MBA from Harvard, where he was a Baker Scholar. He serves on the boards of the New England Venture Capital Association (NEVCA) and Interise, a non-profit focused on small-business job creation and entrepreneurship.

Michael Contompasis

Michael Contompasis is the former Director of Intergovernmental Relations and External Affairs for the City of Boston. He served as superintendent of the Boston Public Schools from 2006 through 2007, after having served as the district's first chief operating officer since 1998. Previously, for more than 20 years, Contompasis served as headmaster of Boston Latin School in Boston, the nation's first public school, where he maintained Boston Latin's long-standing tradition of excellence in education. From 1996 to 1998, Contompasis also served as a cluster leader for Boston Public Schools, which included overseeing and mentoring the principals and headmasters of ten K-12 schools in the district. Contompasis began his career in education in 1966 as a biology teacher at East Boston High School, and later taught at Hyde Park High School and Boston Latin School. In 2006 he was presented with a Distinguished Service Award by The Council of the Great City Schools.

Jordan Meranus

Jordan Meranus, is a Partner at NewSchools Venture Fund East Coast office where he focuses on investment strategy and management assistance to portfolio ventures, particularly within the area of charter schools. Prior to joining NewSchools, Mr. Meranus was a Managing Director at Imagitas, a company which partners with government agencies to help the public sector better serve citizens is also a co-founder of Jumpstart, a nationwide nonprofit organization providing intensive early literacy services to low-income children. Mr. Meranus received his bachelor's degree in history from Duke University and earned a master's degree in both Education and Public Administration from Harvard.

Alexander Packard

Alexander Packard (Zander) is the Chief Operating Officer of Iora Health, an early stage health care services company based in Cambridge, MA.  Previously, Zander was Chief Operating Officer of Outside The Classroom, a public health related education technology company that was sold to EverFi in 2011.  Over the previous 15 years, Zander held leadership roles at Monitor Group, New Profit Inc. and The Advisory Board Company.  Zander serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of ACCESS, a Boston-based nonprofit focused on college access and affordability.   Zander has a B.A. from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School and lives with his family in Brookline, MA.

William Polk

Mr. Polk retired from the Groton School where he served as the Headmaster and taught religion from 1978-2003. Prior to the Groton School, Mr. Polk worked at the Lawrenceville School in a variety of positions including the Chair of the Department of Religion, the Assistant Dean of Students and the Director of Social Service Programs. Mr. Polk has served as a trustee for a large number of nonprofit organizations and is presently on the board of the Fenn School, the Epiphany School, the Cambridge Center for Adult Education and the Cambridge Foundation. Mr. Polk holds a BA from Trinity College and a MDiv from Union Theological Seminary.

Eileen Rudden

Eileen Rudden is a seasoned leader and board member in both the technology and education sectors. She recently served as Chief Officer, College and Career Preparation at Chicago Public Schools, where she led the efforts of the third largest public school system in the US to ensure that its 400,000 students are college and career ready. She was a 2009 Broad Fellow and graduate of the Broad Superintendent’s Academy. Rudden has been a leader in the software industry for more than twenty five years.  She is the Board Chair of SoundBite Communications (NASDAQ: SDBT), and formerly led the Unified Communications Division at Avaya, a Fortune 500 business communications provider.  At IBM’s Lotus Software unit, Ms. Rudden was senior vice president and general manager responsible for Lotus Notes and Same Time.  She was CEO of FairMarket (NASDAQ:FAIM), and started her career at The Boston Consulting Group. Rudden received her MBA from Harvard Business School, and her BA from Brown University, where she served as a Trustee.

Judy Wurtzel

Judy is an independent consultant on education policy matters.  She served in the U.S. Department of Education as a Deputy Assistant Secretary for planning, evaluation and policy development for the first two years of the Obama Administration.  The Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development (OPEPD) coordinates policy, budget and evaluation activities within the Department.  Judy also helped launch the Department’s new Implementation Support Unit designed to support state reform efforts and served as that office’s first Deputy Director for Technical Assistance and Technical Assistance Policy. Immediately prior to joining the Department, Wurtzel was Co-Director of the Aspen Institute Program on Education and Society. During her tenure, Aspen education initiatives included: a senior congressional staff network, an urban superintendents network and related networks of chief academic officers, chief financial officers and secondary mathematics and literacy leaders and policy initiatives on improving high schools and on strengthening human capital. Wurtzel previously was Executive Director of the Learning First Alliance and also served as a senior advisor at the U.S. Department of Education during the Clinton Administration, working on a wide range of elementary and secondary education issues.

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