James Lanich
James S. Lanich, Ph.D., better known asJim Lanich', is president of California Business for Education Excellence (CBEE), representing California's business leaders focused on raising K-12 public school student achievement in California.
Lanich began his career as an inner city middle school teacher for the Los Angeles Unified School District.
In 1992, he joined the Los Angeles County Office of Education. There he led the largest Research and Development Unit of any educational agency in the nation charged with bringing standards based reading and math reform to over 1,700 schools.
In 1993, he received his Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Southern California.
In 1998, he assumed leadership of Core Curriculum Services for the Los Angeles County Superintendent of Schools. Here, he developed and led the Academic Achievement Alliance charged with raising the reading and math scores in the 100 lowest performing schools of Los Angeles County.
From 2001-2005 he served as the first Director for the Inaugural Broad Prize for Urban Education, which awarded $1 million dollars in scholarships to high performing urban school districts in the nation. While serving as the Inaugural director, he also co-founded Just For the Kids-California, the largest longitudinally linked student achievement database in the country.
In 2006, he was named by U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings to the National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB), which develops policy guidelines for the National Assessment of Educational ProgresS. His four-year term on the NAGB ends in September 2010.
References
Press Release [http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/061020/sff042.html?.v=33], retrieved 6 December 2006.