Expert Review Team June Working Session:
Speaker Bios

Washington State Senator Rosemary McAuliffe from the1st District, Bothell, has spent much of her political life in the support and encouragement of excellence in the state’s education system. She currently serves on the Local Advisory Committee on Higher Education Needs in Snohomish, Skagit, and Island Counties; Joint Select Committee on Secondary Education; Washington Learns Steering Committee; Washington State Special Education Advisory Council:

Senator McAuliffe’s recent awards and recognition include the Washington State PTA’s 2006 Friend of Children Award and Washington Association for Career and Technical Education 2005 Legislator of the Year.

She is currently involved with the National Conference of State Legislatures Education Committee; Protect-A-Child-Today, as Board Member and a member of the President's Commission on Education Resource Equity.

 

Dr. David T. Conley

Dr. Conley is Professor of Educational Policy and Leadership in the College of Education, University of Oregon. He is the founder and director of the Center for Educational Policy Research (CEPR) at the University of Oregon and executive director of the Educational Policy Improvement Center (EPIC), a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization. Currently, CEPR and EPIC have grants and contracts with national and state educational agencies and organizations to perform research on a variety of issue related to college readiness standards, high school-college articulation and transition, state high school exit examinations, and state adequacy funding models.

In 2003 he completed Standards for Success, a $2.4 million project funded by the Washington, D.C.-based Association of American Universities (AAU) and The Pew Charitable Trusts. This project identified the knowledge and skills necessary for success in entry-level university courses. His latest book, based on this research, is entitled College Knowledge: What It Takes for Students to Succeed and What We Can Do to Get Them Ready, and was released in the spring of 2005 by Jossey-Bass.

From 1993 through 2000 he designed an entirely new system of college admission for the Oregon University System. The Proficiency-based Admission Standards System (PASS) identifies what students must know to be admitted to the state's seven public universities and utilizes scores from state and national exams and collections of classroom-based student work to determine admission.

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