Appointed Member
Email: Laura.Slover@dc.gov

 

Currently, Ms. Slover is the director of content and policy research at Achieve, Inc. As created by the nation's governors and business leaders in 1996, Achieve, Inc. is a bipartisan, non-profit organization that helps states raise academic standards, improve assessments and strengthen accountability to prepare all young people for postsecondary education, work and citizenship.

 

As director of content and policy research, Ms. Slover has senior responsibility for overseeing a number of Achieve's major initiatives in support of its American Diploma Project Network, a coalition of 26 states committed to aligning high school standards, assessments, graduation requirements and accountability systems with the demands of college and the workplace. She also supervises Achieve’s Benchmarking Initiative, leads its work with states on building mathematics capacity and oversees the organization's research agenda. Ms. Slover has extensive experience reviewing states' academic standards, tests and education policies, and she has written a number of reports and articles.

 

Ms. Slover is a member of the Board of Directors of Project Northstar, an organization that provides mentoring and tutoring to homeless and at-risk students in the District of Columbia. She has tutored the same student since 1999 who is now a senior and is applying to colleges. A native Washingtonian, Ms. Slover earned a Bachelor's degree in English and American literature from Harvard University; a Master's degree in education curriculum and instruction from the University of Colorado at Boulder; and a Master's degree in education policy from Georgetown University.