Rosann Tung named Director of Research and Policy at Brown University's Annenberg Institute for School Reform

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 14, 2011

ROSANN TUNG NAMED DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH & POLICY AT BROWN UNIVERSITY’S ANNENBERG INSTITUTE FOR SCHOOL REFORM

 PROVIDENCE -- Rosann M. Tung, the former director of Research and Evaluation at the Center for Collaborative Education (CCE) in Boston, was named director of Research & Policy at the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University (AISR), announced Warren Simmons, AISR’s executive director. She joins the Providence-based national policy research and reform support organization in January.

Tung, who earned a Ph.D. in Biological & Biomedical Sciences from Harvard University, founded CCE’s research team in 2000 and has led it since then. CCE, launched in 1997, partners with public schools and districts to create and sustain effective and equitable schools through coaching, professional development, advocacy and research.

“We are very pleased that Rosann will join us as our first research and policy director,” said Simmons. “Her experience, both as a builder of a research practice and as an investigator concerned with increasing educational access and opportunity for all students, meshes perfectly with our mission and objectives. We look forward to her arrival.”

Tung will head an experienced team of Research and Policy staff engaged in a range of projects to inform both AISR’s work and the fields of district-level reform and community organizing for school reform. Their work includes original research; documentation and evaluation of reform efforts; analyses of current education policies; and the development of tools to share lessons and best practices.

She will also oversee the substantial qualitative and quantitative research embedded in many of the projects executed by the AISR’s Community Organizing and Engagement, and District Redesign and Leadership practices.

”I view this new position as an opportunity to conduct research that sheds light upon reducing the access and opportunity gap for historically underserved students in public schools,” said Tung, who earned a B.A. in Biology with Distinction from Cornell University.

Prior to her tenure at CCE, Tung served as a research associate at Lesley University’s Program Evaluation and Research Group (Cambridge, Mass.), where she conducted evaluations of several federally funded, multi-year regional and national systemic science and math reform efforts in curriculum implementation and professional development.

She also served for four years as a governing board member of the Mission Hill School (MHS) in Roxbury, Mass., a Boston Public Pilot School founded by education reformer Deborah Meier, who has spent over 35 years developing successful public urban schools. MHS is a member of the Coalition of Essential Schools, a national network that embraces the principles of small school size, authentic assessment, equitable education, and democratic governance. Meier and AISR’s late founding director, Ted Sizer, co-authored the book Keeping School: Letters to Families from Principals of Two Small Schools.

Tung resides in Jamaica Plain, Mass.  

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