Kathleen Fulton

Biographical Sketch:

Kathleen Fulton is Director for Reinventing Schools for the 21st Century at the National Commission for Teaching and America’s Future (NCTAF). She was the lead author for the Commission’s Jan. 2003 report No Dream Denied: A Pledge to America’s Children. In 2004, she led the team producing NCTAF’s report Fifty Years After Brown v. Board of Education: A Tow-Tiered Education System. (www.nctaf.org) Fulton has extensive experience as an educational technology consultant. She was editor for the National Education Association report Guide to Online High School Courses and the Center on Education Policy report Preserving Principles of Public Education in an Online World. Fulton was also the lead author in three reports produced by the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory/Learning Point Associates: Teacher Education Programs that Prepare Technology Competent Teachers for Urban and Rural Classrooms (2002); Preparing Teachers to Use Technology Effectively in High Poverty Communities (2003); and Teacher Education and Technology Planning Guide. (2004).

Before joining the staff of NCTAF, Ms. Fulton served as the Project Director for the Congressional Web-based Education Commission, where she was primary author of their December 2000 report The Power of the Internet for Learning: Moving from Promise to Practice. Ms. Fulton was Associate Director of the Center for Learning and Educational Technology at the University of Maryland. From 1986 until its closure in 1995, Ms. Fulton was a policy analyst for the U.S. Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (OTA). She was the project director of OTA’s last two education reports: Education and Technology: Future Visions (1995), Teachers and Technology: Making the Connection (1995) and was a key contributor to OTA’s earlier reports including Power On! New Tools for Teaching and Learning (1988), Linking for Learning (1989), Testing in America’s Schools (1991), and Technologies for Adult Literacy (1993).

Ms. Fulton is a member of a number of national and international advisory panels and was recognized by E-School News as one of the 30 most influential people in educational technology for 2000. She received her Bachelors degree in English at Smith College, and her Masters in Human Development at the University of Maryland.