PRESENTERS

Learn from dialogues involving test developers, academic researchers, and educators on the front lines.

Elizabeth Case   Director, Research on Special Populations, Harcourt Educational Measurement.

Jay Heubert   Associate Professor, Department of Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, editor of the book Law and School Reform: Six Strategies for promoting Educational Equity, co-editor of the book High Stakes: Testing for Tracking, Promotion, and Graduation.

Jay Innes   Professor, Department of Education, Gallaudet University, director, Education and Policy Development Center, National Association of the Deaf (NAD).

Michael Karchmer   Director, Gallaudet Research Institute, Gallaudet University, recent co-editor of the book The Study of Signed Languages.

Kevin Keane   Superintendent, Lexington School for the Deaf, New York City.

Timothy Kelly   Director, Pupil Personnel Services, St. Mary's School for the Deaf, Buffalo, New York.

Neil Kingston   Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Measured Progress.

Jon Levy   Principal, University High School, Orange County, California, and chair, California Association of Administrators of Educational Programs for the Deaf.

Jana Lollis   Teacher, North Carolina School for the Deaf in Morganton, North Carolina.

David Martin   Professor Emeritus, Department of Education, Gallaudet University, former chair, National Task Force on Equity in Testing of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Individuals.

Carolyn Massad   Harcourt Educational Measurement, San Antonio, Texas.

Judith Mounty   Director, Gallaudet University's Center for ASL Literacy and co-chair, National Task Force on Equity in Testing Deaf and Hard of Hearing Individuals.

James Popham   Professor Emeritus, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Los Angeles, and author of numerous books on test construction and use, including The Truth About Testing: An Educator's Call to Action and Building Tests to Support Instruction and Accountability.

Barbara Raimondo   Director of Public Affairs, American Society for Deaf Children, and Government Relations Liaison, Conference of Educational Administrators of Schools and Programs for the Deaf.

Claire Ramsey   Assistant Professor, Teachers College, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and author of Deaf Children in Public Schools.

Kenneth Randall   Superintendent of the Arizona State School for the Deaf and Blind, Tucson, Arizona.

Adrianne Robins   Reading Specialist, Lexington School for the Deaf, New York, New York.

Jo Thomason   Former Executive Director, Council of Administrators of Special Education (CASE), Council for Exceptional Children (CEC).

Martha Thurlow   Director, National Center on Educational Outcomes.

Carol Traxler   Research Scientist, Gallaudet Research Institute, Gallaudet University and co-chair, National Task Force on Equity in Testing Deaf and Hard of Hearing Individuals.