AERA Member Appointed to National Assessment Governing Board



Mitchell Chester
Massachusetts Department of
Elementary and Secondary Education


October 2014

Earlier this month, U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced five appointees to the National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB) for four-year terms. Mitchell Chester, commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and a member of AERA, was appointed to serve as the chief state school officer representative on NAGB.

Along with Chester, three other new NAGB members were appointed: Frank Fernandes, a middle school principal in Hawaii; Tonya Matthews, president and CEO of the Michigan Science Center; and Chasidy White, an eighth-grade social studies teacher in Alabama. One member, Shannon Garrison, a fourth-grade teacher, was reappointed to NAGB.