By Devin Katayama
Louisville, KY – U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has appointed Terry Holliday to the National Assessment Governing Board. Holliday has been the commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Education since 2009.
Holliday will help set policy for the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP. It's also known as the National Report card. The organization is an independent arm of the U.S. Department of Education and it assesses states' progress in various school subjects, like math and writing.
"What they're looking at now these major developments are really in line with what Kentucky is doing, particularly when we look at career and college readiness."
That's Kentucky Department of Education Lisa Gross. She says Holliday will now be responsible for overseeing research on college and job training readiness and oversee a new ad hoc committee on engaging parents with the goal of increasing student performance.
The position is unpaid and will bring Holliday to Washington for quarterly meetings. The 26-member board is made up of governors, state legislators, local and state officials, educators and the general public. Six other appointees were announced on Tuesday.