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Donald R.
McAdams
Donald
R. McAdams is the President of CRSS. From 1990 to 2002, McAdams
served as a member of the Houston Independent School District
Board of Education, a tenure that included two terms as board
president. Among the changes he helped institute in the school
district during that time were the implementation of school
accountability, district decentralization, the establishment of
charter schools, the outsourcing of most HISD business functions
to private contractors, more flexible personnel management
policies, an academic core curriculum for high school students,
a new elementary school reading curriculum, promotion standards,
and other improvements in education and management.
In 2002, U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige appointed McAdams to the National Advisory Council on Institutional Quality and Integrity, and in 2003 Texas Governor Rick Perry appointed him to a Select Committee charged with preparing legislative proposals for a new public school finance system for Texas. McAdams has served as a member of the National Commission on Governance, Education Commission of the States, the Educational Leadership Advisory Council of the Wallace-Readers Digest Funds, and as a consultant to the Annenberg Institute for School Reform.
McAdams has
been a research professor at the University of Houston;
president of McAdams, Faillace & Associates, Inc, a corporation
that provided complete design, consulting, and training support
for the implementation of quality management in healthcare and
education; executive vice president at the American Productivity
& Quality Center; president of the Texas Independent College
Fund; and from 1975 to 1984, president of Southwestern Adventist
College. He was also an associate professor of history and
acting chairman of the Department of History at Andrews
University.
McAdams holds a Ph.D. in European
History from Duke University. He has written numerous articles
in academic journals and is the author of Fighting to Save
Our Urban Schools . . . and Winning! Lessons from Houston and "What School Boards Can Do: Reform Governance for Urban Schools".
mcadams@crss.org
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