Ed Crowe
Teacher Prep Inspection-US (TPI-US)
Managing Partner
District of Columbia
Conversation Starter: Reform of teacher preparation and more rigorous state accountability for prep program quality.
Dr. Edward Crowe is Senior Adviser for the Teaching Fellows Program at the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. Crowe provides consulting services on teacher quality, K-16 policy issues, and evaluation through The Bench Group LLC and Teacher Preparation Analytics LLC. Since fall 2013 he has managed development and implementation of a new teacher preparation program inspection process, modeled on the British inspection system for schools and teacher prep programs. This work takes place through Teacher Prep Inspection-US (TPI-US). Crowe served as an evaluator for the New York City Partnership for Teacher Excellence, and wrote a commissioned paper for the Committee on Teacher Preparation Programs for the National Research Council (NRC). From 2002-2010, he was an adviser to the Carnegie Corporation of New York on implementation of the Teachers for a New Era Initiative. He is a graduate of Boston College and holds masters and doctoral degrees in political science from UNC-Chapel Hill.