Vice President, Content and Policy Research

Laura McGiffert Slover joined Achieve in 1998, shortly after governors and business leaders created the organization.

As vice president of content and policy research, Laura has senior responsibility for overseeing a number of Achieve's major initiatives. She supervises Achieve's Benchmarking Initiative, leads its work with states on building mathematics capacity and oversees the organization's research agenda. Laura has extensive experience reviewing academic standards and education policies in the United States and abroad, and she has written a number of reports and articles on the topic.

Before joining Achieve, Laura was a high school English teacher in Eagle County, CO, where she was involved in the district's early efforts to develop standards and benchmark assessments. She also taught writing and composition at Colorado Mountain College.

A native Washingtonian, Laura earned a bachelor's degree in English and American literature from Harvard University; a master's in education curriculum and instruction from the University of Colorado at Boulder; and a master's in education policy from Georgetown University. She is married and lives in Washington, D.C. She was a mentor and a member of the Board of Directors of Project Northstar, an organization that provides mentoring and tutoring to homeless and at-risk students in D.C. Currently, she serves on the Board of Education for the District of Columbia Public Schools.