I am Fritz (Frederic A.) Mosher. I am Senior Policy Analyst at
Carnegie Corporation of New York, an educational, grant-making
foundation, though in my current job I have no direct
responsibility for grant-making. I work primarily in our program
area concerned with "education and the healthy development of
children and youth," and within that particularly on matters
having to do with the reform of the American public elementary
and secondary education system - focusing on how schools might be
helped to do better with all children, and especially with those
they have done least well by in the past. I have been at
Carnegie since 1962 (with a year out working at the Harvard
Graduate School of Ed. and the Huron Institute in the early 70's)
managing programs variously in education, international affairs,
U.S. governmental reform, the role of universities in the growth
of primary and secondary education systems in Anglophone Africa,
and international security (particularly U.S.-Soviet relations).
In a number of these endeavors I have had the pleasure of working
closely with Mike Cole - who kindly introduced me to these
fascinating, and deeply educational lists. I am a
social/cognitive psychologist by training, with a PhD in Social
Relations from Harvard, where I was a student of Jerome Bruner's,
and a M.A. from Michigan, where I worked with Ted Newcomb. I've
had a long-term interest in, and puzzlement about, educational
assessment.