Edward Crowe

Edward Crowe is a consultant on teacher quality policy for several organizations and projects, including the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. He previously worked as senior consultant for the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future, where he focused on teacher preparation projects, research on the cost of teacher turnover, and efforts to improve identification and development of high achieving students for careers in science, mathematics, engineering, and technology disciplines. He also served as an adviser to the Hunter Foundation of Scotland and the Scottish National Executive on teacher quality, and currently serves on the Advisory Council for the Texas Center for Research, Evaluation and Advancement of Teacher Education. Crowe also has worked with the New York City Partnership for Teacher Excellence and with the Committee on Teacher Preparation Programs for the National Research Council.

Crowe was the first director of the Title II Teacher Quality Enhancement Program for the U.S. Department of Education. He has experience in state higher education policy as well, having worked for the University of North Carolina system, with the Arkansas state higher education coordinating board, and as senior manager of a National Science Foundation-funded statewide math and science education reform project. He is a graduate of Boston College, and holds master’s and doctoral degrees in political science from The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.