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Jack Jennings Named to National Academy of Education

By Sarah D. Sparks — June 07, 2011 1 min read
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Jack Jennings, the president and chief executive officer of the Center on Education Policy, a Washington-based think tank, has been tapped to join the National Academy of Education, one of the National Academies. The academy includes no more than 200 American and 25 international members elected based on “outstanding scholarship related to education.”

A version of this article appeared in the June 08, 2011 edition of Education Week as Jack Jennings Named to National Academy of Education

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