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Laura Slover is the managing director of Skills for the Future, a joint endeavor of ETS and The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching to radically transform education from time-based to competency-based and to build an undergirding assessment system to capture evidence of what’s most important for success in high school, postsecondary education, and jobs in the 21st-century economy.
Previously, Laura was the founder and CEO of CenterPoint Education Solutions, which specializes in formative and benchmark assessments and educator supports. Prior to that, she was the founding CEO of the Partnership for Assessment of College and Careers (PARCC) Inc., a consortium of states measuring what matters for college and careers.
Laura began her career in education as an English teacher and basketball coach at Battle Mountain High School in Vail, Colorado, and an English instructor at Colorado Mountain College. She also did stints as a volunteer ski-patroller and a NOLS instructor.
A native Washingtonian, Laura earned a bachelor’s degree in English and American literature from Harvard; a master’s in education curriculum and instruction from the University of Colorado at Boulder; and a master’s in education policy from Georgetown. Laura was appointed to the District of Columbia School Board in 2007 and was subsequently elected twice to the State Board of Education. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband Bill and daughter. Laura is a Fellow of the seventh class of the Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.
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