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Nancy Pelz-Paget is the director of the Aspen Institute Education and Society Program as well as one of the founders. Ms. Pelz-Paget is engaged in the development and dissemination of new strategies for education and public policy. The current Aspen program focus is on high school transformation and the multiple pathways and opportunities that young people need to succeed beyond high school in college, work and as effective citizens. Through a combination of workshops involving practitioners, policy makers, and research analysts, commissioning papers, networks of district and state leaders, the program has contributed to creating the framework of ideas and policies for what has rapidly become a national movement around high school transformation. Ms. Pelz-Paget has served as Director of Policy Programs, for the Council for Aid to Education, a subsidiary of the RAND Corporation, where she was responsible for organizing and executing policy forums with state, education and business leaders on reform in higher education. This work was related to raising awareness at the state policy level of the Council s findings in the report Breaking the Social Contract: The Fiscal Crisis in Higher Education. Ms. Pelz-Paget has also been a television executive in charge of program development for public television where she was involved in production, marketing, outreach and distribution at WNET/Channel 13 and for an independent TV production company. Productions include: Adam Smith s Money World; Bill Moyers: The Public Mind; The Secret Government; Report from Philadelphia; and On the Issues with John Chancellor. Prior to working in television, Ms. Pelz-Paget served as special assistant to Francis Keppel, Chairman of the General Learning Corp., where she worked on various public policy projects: serving as project director for the NYC Fleischmann Commission on public education and as staff director for Gov. Nelson Rockefeller s Task Force on Higher Education in New York State as well as for the Education Panel of the Rockefeller Critical Choices Commission. She is former vice president of the Board of NY Women in Film and Television and also serves on the advisory boards of the Center for Research, Evaluation and the Advancement of Teacher Education, a Consortium of Texas A&M University System and the UT System, the three largest producers of teachers in Texas; the Center for Educational Innovation-Public Education Association; and the American Ditchley Foundation. | 