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Christopher Lohse is the Strategic Initiative Director of Data Policy and Research for the Council, and believes deeply in the ability of data to help tell the stories of how our nation’s children experience school. Through richer, more nuanced understanding of our students’ collective narrative, Chris believes that all education stakeholders can be empowered to make decisions that will maximize children’s chances for success, fulfillment, and meaningful life-long learning. To that end, Chris works at the Council to create and implement an innovative vision for the role and use of data in the education space. Part of that vision involves enabling well-architected, interconnected, vertically and horizontally-aligned data systems with elegantly designed user-interfaces to benchmark education results nationally and internationally. Moreover, Chris and the large team of competent information technologists, education specialists, and researchers he leads, works to help states create data systems that enable researchers to isolate the effects of particular policies and programs.
Before joining CCSSO, Chris was the internal research director for Teach For America, an adviser to the Montana state school chief (Director of Policy Research and Federal Liaison), a research director for the Native Caucus of the National Conference of State Legislatures, and a research analyst focusing on science and education policy for the Montana Legislature’s Office of Research and Policy Analysis. He serves on a number of technical review and research panels, and presents often at major education conferences. He is also a mentor teacher in the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Teacher Education Program, working with master’s candidates in science and mathematics program. Chris is also a former classroom teacher, having taught for five years in South Central Los Angeles as an advanced placement chemistry teacher, initially under the Teach For America program. He holds Master’s degrees in Education and Policy from Harvard University, and a biochemistry degree from Willamette University.
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document last updated 6/18/2009
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