Luncheon Address 2009 – Paul Reville

Paul Reville assumed the position as Massachusetts Secretary of Education where he oversees the recently created Executive Office of Education in 2008. He stepped down as the Director of the Education Policy and Management Program at Harvard Graduate School of Education to serve as Secretary.

He is the former president of the Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy, an independent policy organization dedicated to the improvement of PreK-12 public education. Reville is also the former Chairman of the Massachusetts State Board of Education and served on numerous state task forces and committees. Additionally, he is the former executive director of the Pew Forum on Standards-Based Reform, a Harvard-based, national education policy “think tank” which convened the U.S.’s leading researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to set the national “standards” agenda.

Reville was founding executive director of the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education (MBAE), which provided key conceptial and political leadership for the Education Reform Act of 1993. He has served on the Massachusetts State Board of Education and chaired the Massachusetts Education Reform Review Commission.

Reville began his educational career as a practitioner; first as a VISTA volunteer/youth worker, then as a teacher and principal in two urban, alternative high schools. He is a frequent writer and speaker on school reform and educational policy issues.