Paul Reville

Senior Lecturer on Education
Beginning July 1, 2008, when Paul Reville assumed the position of Secretary of
Education, he will teach one course per year during the duration of his term as Secretary.

Profile

Paul Reville assumed the position the Massachusetts Secretary of Education on July 1, 2008 where he will be overseeing the recently created Executive Office of Education. He recently stepped down as the Director of the Education Policy and Management Program at HGSE, and while he serves as Secretary, he will teach one course per year.

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 has served, over the years, on numerous state task forces and committees. Additionally, Reville 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 conceptual and political leadership for the Education Reform Act of 1993. He also served on the Massachusetts State Board of Education, where he chaired the Massachusetts Commission on Time and Learning. From 1996 to 2003, Reville chaired the Massachusetts Education Reform Review Commission, which provided research and oversight for implementation of education reform. Further, Reville was founding executive director of the Alliance for Education, a multiservice educational improvement organization serving Worcester and central Massachusetts.

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 board member and advisor to a host of organizations, and a frequent writer and speaker on school reform and educational policy issues.

Degrees

• Ed.M., Stanford University