� EDWARD MILLER

805 Long Pond Road

Wellfleet, Massachusetts 02667

U.S.A.

Telephone: 508-349-9769; mobile: 917-363-1982

E-mail: [email protected]

Summary: More than 30 years of experience in education writing, editing, teaching, publishing, media relations, and project management. Areas of special expertise include child and youth development, testing and motivation, arts education, civil rights, the use of technology, and issues of research, theory, and practice.

EDUCATION CONSULTING, EDITING, AND WRITING�������������������������� ��� (1996�2004)

Clients: Mission Hill School, Boston; Boston Arts Academy; U.S. Alliance for Childhood; Center for Collaborative Education; National Research Council; Education Development Center; Harvard Civil Rights Project; Boston Community Leadership Academy; Ernst & Young Center for Business Innovation; Conservatory Lab Charter School; Merck Family Fund; National Science Foundation; Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Harvard Business School Publishing; World Times Inc.

HARVARD EDUCATION LETTER, Cambridge, Mass.��������������������������������������� (1993�1996)

Editor

����������� Responsible for editorial content, strategic planning, and production of the Harvard Education Letter, a bimonthly report on significant new research and innovative practice in elementary and secondary education.� The Letter is read by more than 70,000 teachers and administrators throughout North America and by thousands of education editors and writers.

� Recipient of the Distinguished Achievement Award of the Educational Press Association of America in 1996 and 1994 and Second Prize in the 1994 National Awards for Education Reporting of the Education Writers Association

OPUS 118 MUSIC CENTER, New York City ����������������������������������������������������������� (1990�1995)

Chair, Board of Trustees (1991�1995)

Co-Founder and Acting Executive Director (1990�1992)

����������� Created, with violin teacher Roberta Guaspari, a nonprofit corporation to support and sustain the East Harlem Violin Program, which provides free instrumental music instruction to students in the public schools.� Orchestrated a major media campaign that resulted in highly favorable and influential reports in the New York Times, on ABC�s �Prime Time Live,� and in dozens of other media outlets.� The extraordinary success of the program is the subject of two films: �Music of the Heart,� starring Meryl Streep, and Allan Miller�s documentary, �Small Wonders.�

EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT CENTER, Newton, Mass. ������������������������������� (1992�1993)

Senior Researcher

����������� Designed and managed a two-year research and evaluation project on the Middle Grades Improvement Program, a systemic reform initiative in 16 urban school districts funded by the Lilly Endowment.� Co-authored, with Nancy L. Ames, the book Changing Middle Schools: How to Make Schools Work for Young Adolescents (Jossey-Bass, 1994).

EXPOSITORY WRITING PROGRAM, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.����� (1984�1991)

Preceptor and Acting Head Preceptor

����������� Taught writing to Harvard undergraduates and supervised other teachers.� Taught �Social and Ethical Issues,� and developed a new course, �Writing About Music.�� Edited and produced Expose, the program�s literary magazine.� Received the Bedford Prize from St. Martin�s Press for outstanding teaching of writing at the college level.

HIGHWIRE: THE NATIONAL STUDENT MAGAZINE, Lowell, Mass. ��������� (1980�1983)

Founding Editor

����������� This innovative national magazine of the arts and culture, written for and largely by talented high school and college students, was nominated for two National Magazine Awards in 1983.

HARVARD POST NEWSPAPERS, Harvard, Mass. ������������������������������������������������ (1973�2000)

Publisher (1980�2000)

Editor and Publisher (1973�1980)

����������� With a partner, founded the Harvard Post, an award-winning weekly community newspaper in a small town that had never had its own paper; established a sister newspaper, the Bolton Common, in the neighboring town of Bolton in 1988.

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Education

Harvard Graduate School of Education, Ed.M., 1992.

Harvard College, A.B. in music theory and composition, 1973.

������������������������������������� Selected Publications of Edward Miller

BOOKS

Fool�s Gold: A Critical Look at Computers in Childhood (editor, with Colleen Cordes). College Park, MD: Alliance for Childhood, 2000.

High Stakes: Testing for Tracking, Promotion, and Graduation (consulting editor). Washington: National Academies Press, 1999.

Chilling Admissions: The Affirmative Action Crisis and the Search for Alternatives (editor, with Gary Orfield). Cambridge: Harvard Civil Rights Project/Harvard Education Publishing Group, 1998.

Technology and Schools (editor). Cambridge: Harvard Education Publishing Group, 1997.

The Challenge and Promise of K-8 Science Education Reform (editor). Arlington, VA: National Science Foundation, 1997.

Motivation, Achievement, and Testing (editor). Cambridge: Harvard Education Publishing Group, 1996.

Inclusion and Special Education (editor). Cambridge: Harvard Education Publishing Group, 1996.

Ready to Learn: How Schools Can Help Kids Be Healthier and Safer (editor). Cambridge: Harvard Education Publishing Group, 1995.

Changing Middle Schools: How to Make Schools Work for Young Adolescents (with Nancy L. Ames). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1994.

How to Produce a Small Newspaper: A Guide for Independent Journalists (with Kathleen Cushman). Boston: Harvard Common Press, 1983.

ARTICLES

�The High Stakes of Standardized Testing.� NetFuture (online newsletter) no. 87 (March 30, 1999); http://www.praxagora.com/stevet/netfuture/1999/Mar3099_87.html.

�The Three Ms of Our Totally Wired Future.� Orion Magazine (Winter 1999).

�From a Distance, Online Education Looks Like a Good Idea.� The WorldPaper 20, no. 12 (Dec. 1998).

�Learning What to Ignore Is the Key to the Next Century.� The WorldPaper 19, no. 12 (Dec. 1997).

�Getting the Wrong Answer on Student Testing.� The WorldPaper 18, no. 12 (Dec. 1996).

�Even with Computers, Only a Teacher Teaches.� New York Teacher 38, no. 3 (Oct. 14, 1996).

�Idealists and Cynics: The Micropolitics of Systemic School Reform.� Harvard Education Letter 12, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1996).

�Hard-Won Lessons from the School Reform Battle: A Conversation with Ted Sizer.� Harvard Education Letter 12, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1996).

�The Case of Invented Spelling: How Theory Becomes Target Practice.� Harvard Education Letter 12, no. 2 (March/April 1996).

�New Ideas Like Collective Incentives and Skill-Based Pay Raise the Same Old Questions.� Harvard Education Letter 12, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1996).

�School Computers Don�t Rate an �A.� � Newsday, Op-Ed page, Feb. 20, 1996.