Tony Wagner Biography

In addition, Wagner serves as the director of the Harvard Seminar on Public Engagement and teaches at the Harvard Institute for School Leadership. He serves as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's senior advisor and has provided advice to the U. Numerous schools and districts in the U. S., as well as the U. S. and abroad. Wagner has spent more than thirty years working on the reform of schools, and he is a popular lecturer and writer on the relationship between education and society. Before taking the helm at Harvard, Wagner worked as a high school teacher for twelve years, a principal, a university professor of teacher education, the first executive director of Educators for Social Responsibility, the project director for the Public Agenda Foundation in New York, where he collaborated closely with Daniel Yankelovich and the former secretary of state Cyrus Vance, and the president and CEO of the Institute for Responsive Education. He graduated from Harvard University with a Master of Arts in Teaching and a Doctorate in Education. Wagner has published a lot of pieces in both national periodicals and scholarly publications. Making the Grade: Reinventing America's Schools, Wagner's most recent book, has just been released by RutledgeFalmer. A new version of Wagner's first book, How Schools Change: Lessons from Three Communities, with a preface by Theodore R. Sizer, has also just been released.

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