Ed Crowe

Ed Crowe, Ph.D. is a Senior Consultant for NCTAF.

Additionally, Dr. Ed Crowe is a consultant on teacher quality and K-16 policy issues for several other organizations. His current work includes: consultant to the Academy for Educational Development and the Carnegie Corporation of New York on the Teachers for a New Era Program; and consultant on teacher quality policy for the State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO), the national organization of statewide university systems and state higher education coordinating boards.

He also has had consulting roles with the U.S. Department of Education, the Education Commission of the States, the Southeast Center for Teaching Quality and is senior adviser to the Texas A&M University System Regents Initiative. Dr. Crowe was the first director of the Title II Teacher Quality Enhancement Program for the U.S. Department of Education. The Title II program awarded and supported over 90 competitive grants to states and to partnerships of universities and high need schools to improve the quality of teacher preparation policy and practice in the United States.

He has extensive experience in state higher education policy, with the Office of the President of the University of North Carolina system, as senior staff to the state higher education coordinating board in Arkansas, and as senior manager of a statewide math and science education reform project funded by the National Science Foundation.

Dr. Crowe is a graduate of Boston College and holds master's and doctoral degrees in political science from UNC-Chapel Hill.