Submitted by Paul Socolar on Wed, 02/22/2012 - 20:21.

Tom - the members of the ARC are a national panel in the sense that they are from across the country. Only Marlene Weinstein is from Philadelphia. Here is the list from their current report:

James E. Lyons, Sr., Chair
Edmund R. Becker, Member
Peter Burnham, Member
Constance L. Hollinger, Member
Marlene Weinstein, Member
Judith A. Winston, Member
Kenneth K. Wong, Executive Advisor
Neil S. Fleming, Assessment Consultant

Bios of the members appeared in the 2005 ARC report - and are pasted below. One member, Sy Fliegel, appears to have stepped down since them.

Dr. James E. Lyons, Sr.
President
California State University, Dominguez Hills
Dr. James Lyons is President of California State University, Dominquez Hills. Since Dr. Lyons assumed the Presidency the University has received two awards from the
American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education; seen construction on the first state-funded building on campus in more than a quarter century; and opened a worldclass sports complex. Before coming to the University, Dr. Lyons served as the President of Jackson State University; President of Bowie State University; Vice President, Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor at Delaware State College; and Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor at Barber-Scotia College. Dr. Lyons also has experience in numerous other arenas, from the Peace Corps and the classroom, including a stint in the Philadelphia schools, to executive offices and boardrooms. Dr. Lyons is a nationally recognized education consultant. He has written and spoken extensively on a myriad of issues facing public education, and has been consulted by various agencies, boards and commissions through the years on matters ranging from assessments of college presidents and analyses of magnet schools, busing and desegregation to the collective bargaining process and corporations reaching out to minority owned franchisees. Dr. Lyons has won numerous awards including the Leadership in Public Education Award from Prince George’s County Public Schools and the University of Connecticut’s Distinguished Alumni Award.

Edmund R. Becker, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Health Policy and Management
Dr. Becker is a professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Emory School of Public Health where he teaches courses on organizational healthcare management and physician performance. Dr. Becker has published over 100 articles and his research interests focus on measuring and evaluating healthcare costs and outcomes and benchmarking and profiling hospital and physician performance. Prior to coming to Emory University, he was Senior Research Associate and Project Director at the School of Public Health at Harvard University where he directed the Resource-Based Relative Value Scale (RBRVS) project - a seven-year national study to develop an alternative physician reimbursement system for Medicare. Since the Medicare implementation of RBRVS in 1992, he has been an advisor to major healthcare payers, academic medical centers, and physician organizations on strategies for evaluating, modifying, and implementing resource-based payment strategies. Before working at Harvard, Dr. Becker
was an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Business and Administration at the University of Colorado. His academic background follows two years work as a Research Associate in the Center for Health Policy Research at the American Medical Association. Prior to the AMA, Ned was on the faculty at Vanderbilt University where he was a Research Associate in the Health Policy Center at Vanderbilt's Institute for Public Policy Studies. Dr. Becker's undergraduate training is in mathematics and he received his doctorate in sociology in 1981 from Vanderbilt University.

Dr. Peter F. Burnham
President
Brookdale Community College
A 34-year veteran of public community colleges, Dr. Peter F. Burnham has served as
President of Brookdale Community College (Monmouth County, New Jersey) since
1991. The College has undergone a renaissance under his leadership to become New Jersey State’s top grantor of associate degrees (and 55th in the nation). His Brookdale accomplishments include a $130 million capital investment in facility construction and educational technology for the College’s Lincroft campus and five regional centers. In addition, enrollment during Dr. Burnham’s tenure has increased by more than 25 percent, the College has led an alliance of eight higher-education institutions to provide Monmouth County residents the opportunity to earn baccalaureate and master’s degrees locally, and Brookdale has formed partnerships with major corporations to improve the local economy through workforce development. Prior to joining Brookdale, Dr. Burnham served for seven years as President of Schenectady County Community College, part of the State University of New York (SUNY) system. Dr. Burnham currently serves as a commissioner for the Middle States Association Commission on Higher Education and helped create Characteristics of Excellence in Higher Education, the guiding document for accreditation standards. He has a Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration from The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. He and his wife, Vicky reside in Colts Neck with their two sons. Dr. Burnham's daughter, Kris, works in Washington, DC.

Seymour Fliegel
President and Gilder Senior Fellow
Center for Educational Innovation – Public Education Association
Sy has a long and prestigious history in public education. In 1975, he became the
Director of Alternative Education for New York City’s Community District 4 and began
the transformation of New York City public schools described in his book, Miracle in
East Harlem. In 1989, he became the Superintendent of District 28 in Queens. He has spoken nationally and internationally about the importance of creating innovative, effective schools and a system of meaningful public school choice for all children. Sy is a product of the New York City public school system and earned his bachelor and master degrees from City College of New York. He also completed doctoral coursework at New York University.

Constance L. Hollinger, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Psychology
Cleveland State University
Dr. Hollinger is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Cleveland State
University. Hollinger has served as an academic dean, published over 60 reports and
articles and has more than 30 years of experience working with the Cleveland Municipal School District. She has conducted statewide evaluations of Ohio’s IBA initiative for the Ohio Department of Education.

Marlene Weinstein
Director of Early Age Education
for the Middle States Commission on
Elementary Schools
Ms. Weinstein has been a pioneer in the field of early childhood education focusing
especially on corporate child care, health and safety, and public policy. Most recently
she was the Director of Child Care Matters, an initiative that demonstrated how to
improve quality, funding, and public policy for early care and education. Weinstein
chaired the Child Care Committee of the Governor's Task Force on Early Care and
Education and received the 2001 Champion of Child Care Award. Currently she is the
Director of Early Age Education for the Middle States Commission on Elementary
Schools and serves as President of the board of the Delaware Valley Association for the Education of Young Children.

Judith A. Winston, Principal
Winston Withers & Associates, L.L.C.
Judith A. Winston is the former Undersecretary and General Counsel of the United States Department of Education. Currently, a lawyer in private practice, she is a partner and cofounder of the Washington, D.C. based law firm Winston Withers & Associates, L.L.C. Her practice focuses on federal education law and policy, civil rights, corporate governance, and organizational development. Prior to establishing her firm, Winston served as Research Professor of Law at the Washington College of Law at American University. Her research and teaching responsibilities included constitutional law,education law and policy, civil rights, and civil procedure. Winston is the author of numerous articles on equal educational opportunity and federal education policy. She serves on numerous Boards including National Public Radio and the Southern Education Foundation. She is a graduate of Howard University and the Georgetown University Law Center.

Kenneth K. Wong, Ph.D.
Executive Advisor to SRC
Kenneth K. Wong is Professor of Public Policy, Education and Political Science at
Vanderbilt University and earned his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. He serves as
Director of the National Center on School Choice, Competition and Student
Achievement. He is nationally known for his research in educational innovation,
outcome-based accountability, and governance redesign (including charter school, city and state takeover, and Title I school-wide reform). His research has received support from the National Science Foundation, the US Department of Education, the Social Science Research Council, the Spencer Foundation, the Joyce Foundation, the Broad Foundation, the British Council, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and the Rockefeller Foundation. He has advised the U.S. Congress, state legislature, mayoral offices, and the leadership in several large urban school systems on how to redesign the accountability framework. Currently, he is co-editor of a major educational policy journal, Education Evaluation and Policy Analysis, and associate director of the Peabody Center for Educational Policy.

Neil S. Fleming, PhD
Vice President of Health Care Research
Director, Center for Health Care Research
Institute for Health Care Research & Improvement
Baylor Health Care System
Dr. Fleming is Vice President of Health Care Research for the Baylor Health Care
System, Dallas, Texas. He is a nationally recognized expert in the fields of management and systems accountability. Fleming and District Staff developed the current Performance Testing system that is currently in use District-wide. As an Assessment Consultant, Dr. Fleming will support the Executive Advisor.