Anthony S. Bryk

Anthony S. Bryk served as the ninth president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, where he led work on bringing the discipline of improvement science and organizing in improvement networks into education. Bryk cofounded the Center for School Improvement at the University of Chicago (now the Urban Education Institute) and the Consortium on Chicago School Research (now the UChicago Consortium on School Research). He formerly held the Spencer Chair in Organizational Studies in the School of Education and the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. He is a member of the National Academy of Education and was appointed by President Obama to the National Board for Education Sciences in 2010. He is one of America's most noted educational researchers and hid book, Catholic Schools and the Common Good, is a classic in the sociology of education.  Bryk argues improvement science combined with the power of networks offers the field a new approach to reach ever increasing educational aspirations. Bryk holds a B.S. from Boston College and an Ed.D. from Harvard University.

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