Until June 2019, Carrie Conaway was the chief strategy and research officer for the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) and led the agency’s Office of Planning and Research, which strengthens planning, data and resource use, and the focus on evidence in the agency and the field to improve outcomes for Massachusetts students.

President, Association for Education Finance and Policy, 2018.

Common-Sense Evidence: The Education Leader’s Guide to Using Data and Research, by Nora Gordon and Carrie Conaway, has been published by the Harvard Education Publishing Group (2020).