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Steven Adamowski

Senior Fellow

Steven Adamowski recently joined the American Institutes for Research as a Senior Fellow and Managing Director. As a successful school reformer, he has extensive experience in raising student achievement through school and district redesign. Dr. Adamowski’s work is focused on assisting school districts to improve their effectiveness as standards-based, performance driven systems of schools. In addition to his work at AIR, he also serves as Visiting Professor at the George Washington University School of Education and Human Development.

Prior to joining AIR, Dr. Adamowski served as Superintendent/CEO of the Cincinnati, Ohio Public Schools where he led a massive redesign and decentralization of this urban system to produce dramatic gains in student outcomes. During his term as superintendent, Cincinnati gained national recognition for its school accountability system, use of weighted, student-based budgeting, alignment of teacher evaluation and compensation, improvement of early literacy, and redesign of high schools.

Dr. Adamowski previously served as Associate Secretary of Education in Delaware where he played a key role in the development of Delaware’s content standards, assessments and accountability plan, and the state’s subsequent improvement in educational attainment as measured by NAEP scores. He gained a national perspective on school improvement as a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute where he led implementation of the Modern Red Schoolhouse, a ‘break the mold’ design of the New American Schools Development Corporation. He has served as a public school teacher, principal, and superintendent in five states.

Dr. Adamowski holds a M.A. in education from Trinity College, and a specialist degree in administration, planning and social policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He earned his Ph.D. in educational administration from Saint Louis University. As a Professor of Education Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Missouri, St. Louis, he has been recognized for teaching excellence in the preparation of superintendents and principals.