Straight Up Conversation: Common Core Architect and New College Board President David Coleman
by Frederick M. Hess • Jun 11, 2012 at 8:50 am
Cross-posted from Education Week
Cross-posted from Education Week
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The whip-smart and polished David Coleman has been the quiet architect behind the Common Core. With no formal position, he's played a pivotal role in shepherding and selling the work coordinated by the NGA and CCSSO. Of late, he's been spending most of his time as the founding partner of Student Achievement Partners, the nonprofit that's received a substantial investment from the GE Foundation (among others) to implement the Common Core. Well, in one of the more intriguing edu-job changes in recent memory, David was recently named the next president of the College Board, the $800 million a year outfit that designs and 
