Eugene T. Paslov started his education career in 1959 as a high school English teacher. In 1963 Gene Paslov joined the Peace Corps as a volunteer and taught English as a foreign language in Ankara, Turkey for two years. Gene completed a MA from California State University, Long Beach in 1967, a ME.D and Ed.D in public policy and political science in 1970 and 1972, respectively from Teachers College, Columbia University, New York. Gene Paslov has served as State Superintendent of Public Instruction in Michigan and Nevada for a total of eleven years. He also spent a total of 14 years in the Michigan State Department serving in all management levels of the 2500 FTE agency. Gene has served as the Executive Director of a nonprofit Research and Development firm (New Standards Project) in Washington, D.C. where he was instrumental in overseeing the development of national academic standards and performance assessments. Paslov spent the last three years of his forty-five-year career as the President of Harcourt Educational Measurement, a Harcourt Assessment Company. He retired from the Nevada State Department of Education in 1995 and he again retired from Harcourt Assessment in 2002, but continues to do national and international consulting on public education policy and education leadership issues. |