- Occupation: Business Management Consultant
- 25 years experience in business and government
- 5 years volunteer teacher, SMUHSD, Junior Achievement
- 15 years strategic planning experience, including as a director at Institute for the Future, Menlo Park
- U.S. Embassy, Commercial Attache, Beijing, China
- M.A. International Affairs, Geo. Washington University
- Board Member, Commonwealth Club of California, Silicon Valley; WildAid (International Wildlife Conservation)
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Top Priorities if Elected |
- Reform the high school model so that it serves all students, not just those at the top.
- Assure a diploma means competence in reading, writing, and mathematics for every graduate.
- Link high school more closely with work, especially in the junior and senior years. Establish specialized academies with internships in business.
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- Toward an Education System for the Knowledge Economy
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My detailed analysis, published last year, calling for new directions to serve our 21st Century needs. We need new models, more options, a refocused teaching profession, high standards with great expectations and intense remedial intervention, and reduced bureaucracy, but more accountability.
(A PDF file that requires Adobe Acrobat to view. This software is free. http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html)
- Citizens Asked to Willingly Suspend Their Disbelief
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My December 1, 2000 guest editorial in the San Jose Business Journal. Recent test results are grossly misleading and do not represent the renaissance we need in education.
- Ignore the Bellow's of Education's Sacred Cows
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My October 27, 2000 guest editorial in the San Francisco Business Times on the mythic value and genuine high cost of the current teacher credentialing system. We need to upgrade teaching substantially, but we do that through substantial changes in training and hiring teachers.
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