Contact: Bridget Curran

EXPERTISE

Duties: Bridget leads the division's policy analysis, research and technical assistance on teaching quality issues. She also helps manage the division's work on high school redesign, including the High School Honor States grants and the Graduation Counts reports on improving high school graduation and dropout data. Bridget develops learning labs, conferences and publications and facilitates in-state meetings to help governors and their education policy advisors develop customized policy strategies informed by research and promising practices. She also represents the NGA Center at national and state policy meetings and presents on a variety of topics related to teaching policy, high school reform and other topics of interest to state leaders.

BACKGROUND

Previous Positions: Senior Research Associate, Education Week; Substitute Teacher, Fairfax Country Public Schools and Arlington County Schools; Assistant Account Executive, Robert N. Pyle & Associates

Education: B.A., College of William and Mary

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Curran, Bridget, Implementing Graduation Counts: State Progress to Date (NGA Center for Best Practices: August, 2006).

Curran, Bridget, Graduation Counts: A Report of the National Governors Association Task Force on State High School Graduation Data (NGA Center for Best Practices: July, 2005).

Curran, Bridget, et al., An Action Agenda for Improving America's High Schools (National Governors Association and Achieve, Inc.: February, 2005).

Curran, Bridget, et al., "Out-of-Field Teaching: The Great Obstacle to Meeting the 'Highly Qualified' Teacher Challenge" (NGA Center for Best Practices: July, 2004).

Curran, Bridget, et al., "Mentoring and Supporting New Teachers" (NGA Center for Best Practices: January, 2002).

Curran, Bridget, et al., Solving Teacher Shortages through Licensure Reciprocity (State Higher Education Executive Officers, National Conference of State Legislatures and NGA Center for Best Practices: February, 2001).

Curran, Bridget, et al., "High Academic Standards in Alternative Education: Setting the Standards of Excellence for Non-Traditional High School Students," (NGA Center for Best Practices, 2001).

Curran, Bridget, et al., "Teacher Supply and Demand: Is There A Shortage?" (NGA Center for Best Practices: January, 2000).

Curran, Bridget, "State Accountability Systems: Issues, Challenges, and Strategies" (NGA Center for Best Practices: 1999).

Curran, Bridget, Focusing on Results: Toward An Education Accountability System (NGA Center for Best Practices: 1999).

Curran, Bridget, et al., "State of the States," Education Week: Quality Counts '99 Editorial Projects in Education (1999).*

Curran, Bridget, et al., "An Uphill Struggle” Education Week: Quality Counts '99, Editorial Projects in Education (1999).*

Curran, Bridget, "Finance Fracas" Education Week: Quality Counts '99, Editorial Projects in Education (1999).*

*The views expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the National Governors Association or individual governor's offices.