Susan Fuhrman was recently appointed President of Teachers College, Columbia University. From 1995 to 2006 she was the Dean, and the George and Diane Weiss Professor of Education, at the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education. She is also the chair of the Management Committee of CPRE, which she founded in 1985. Dr. Fuhrman is currently the principal investigator of the Center on Continuous Instructional Improvement (CCII), a research and development center funded by the Hewlett Foundation that focuses on creating tools and policy supports for instructional improvement proces...