Kathleen Porter-Magee Senior Director, High Quality Standards Program; Bernard Lee Schwartz Policy Fellow Bernard Lee Schwartz Policy Fellow

Kathleen Porter-Magee is the Senior Director of the High Quality Standards Program at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and a Bernard Lee Schwartz Policy Fellow, where she leads the Institute’s work on state, national, and international standards evaluation and analysis. Previously, Ms. Porter-Magee served as the senior director of curriculum and professional development for Achievement First, where she led the team's expansion from one to a team of more than 16 achievement directors, content-area leads, and curriculum and professional development associates. She also oversaw the development of AF’s nationally-recognized system of interim assessments and managed professional development for the more than 500 teachers across two states.

Previously, Ms. Porter-Magee served as the director of professional development and recruitment for the 115 Archdiocese of Washington, DC Catholic Schools, as the associate research director of the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, and as a research fellow at both Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and at the Progressive Policy Institute in Washington, DC. Ms. Porter-Magee began her career as a classroom teacher and department chair at both the middle and high school levels. She holds a B.A. from the College of the Holy Cross in Political Science and French and an M.A. in Education Policy and Leadership from the George Washington University.