PACE Welcomes New Executive Director

We are delighted to announce that Professor David N. Plank, an economist teaching at Michigan State University (MSU), will become PACE's executive director in January 2007. Professor Plank is world renown for his work on school quality and democratic governance both in the U.S. and within developing countries. He currently directs an education policy center at MSU which operates much like PACE. Professor Plank has conducted extensive research in Brazil and is fluent in Portuguese. He will start work from our UC Berkeley office part time, beginning this summer.