Barbara R Davidson
Knowledge Matters Campaign Executive Director
Washington, DC
Barbara Davidson runs StandardsWork (www.standardswork.org) and serves as Executive Director of the Knowledge Matters Campaign (www.knowledgematterscampaign.org). She is a former classroom teacher of learning-disabled students who has worked for the past 35 years to advance three levers for producing K-12 academic improvements: the role that high-quality curriculum plays in supporting teacher excellence, the importance of building students’ background knowledge of the world to ensure reading success, and the octane that specific evidence-based instructional practices can provide for learning.