Earlier this month, U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced five appointees to the National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB) for four-year terms. Mitchell Chester, commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and a member of AERA, was appointed to serve as the chief state school officer representative on NAGB.
Along with Chester, three other new NAGB members were appointed: Frank Fernandes, a middle school principal in Hawaii; Tonya Matthews, president and CEO of the Michigan Science Center; and Chasidy White, an eighth-grade social studies teacher in Alabama. One member, Shannon Garrison, a fourth-grade teacher, was reappointed to NAGB.