{"id":731,"date":"2019-11-05T21:01:08","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T21:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postsecondaryreadiness.org\/capr2019\/?page_id=731"},"modified":"2019-11-08T20:37:30","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T20:37:30","slug":"thomas-brock","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/postsecondaryreadiness.org\/capr2019\/speakers\/thomas-brock\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Brock"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff;background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:50px;padding-left:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:24px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-1 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-one\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:31px;margin-left:0px;\"><h1 class=\"title-heading-left\" style=\"margin:0;color:#90537e;\">Thomas Brock<\/h1><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third fusion-column-first\" style=\"width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );margin-right: 4%;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1 hover-type-none\"><img width=\"800\" height=\"533\" alt=\"Thomas Brock\" title=\"brock-tom\" src=\"https:\/\/postsecondaryreadiness.org\/capr2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/brock-tom.png\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-732\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postsecondaryreadiness.org\/capr2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/brock-tom-200x133.png 200w, https:\/\/postsecondaryreadiness.org\/capr2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/brock-tom-400x267.png 400w, https:\/\/postsecondaryreadiness.org\/capr2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/brock-tom-600x400.png 600w, https:\/\/postsecondaryreadiness.org\/capr2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/brock-tom.png 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/span><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-2 fusion_builder_column_2_3 2_3 fusion-two-third fusion-column-last\" style=\"width:66.666666666667%;width:calc(66.666666666667% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.66666666666667 ) );margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>Thomas Brock became the director of the Community College Research Center in September 2018, bringing more than 25 years of experience in education and social welfare research to CCRC. He is also a research professor at Teachers College.<\/p>\n<p>From 2013 to 2018, Brock was the commissioner of the\u00a0National Center for Education Research\u00a0(NCER) at the Institute of Education Sciences (IES). As the leader of NCER, Brock spearheaded a comprehensive research program around improving educational outcomes for students of all ages while focusing more of the center\u2019s work on postsecondary research. He also planned and launched several national research centers and networks dedicated to topics such as college completion, developmental education, and career and technical education.<\/p>\n<p>In January 2017, former Education Secretary John King delegated to Brock the duties of director of IES. Brock served in the role for more than a year, overseeing IES\u2019s centers on research, evaluation, and statistics and the release of several major reports, including the National Assessment of Education Progress.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to his work for the U.S. Department of Education, Brock spent nearly a decade as the head of the postsecondary education division of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdrc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MDRC<\/a>, capping more than 20 years at the independent social policy research organization. At MDRC, he was involved in evaluations of major community college reforms, including the Opening Doors Demonstration and Completion by Design. He worked closely with CCRC on several large-scale initiatives, including the IES-funded National Center for Postsecondary Research and an evaluation of the Achieving the Dream initiative.<\/p>\n<p>Brock\u2019s writing has appeared in several policy journals and reports, including\u00a0<em>New Directions for Community Colleges<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Future of Children<\/em>, and the\u00a0<em>Journal of Policy Analysis and Management<\/em>. He sits on the Board of Trustees at\u00a0Pitzer College\u00a0in Claremont, California, and between 2016 and 2018 represented the U.S. on the Governing Board of the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation of the\u00a0Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development\u00a0(OECD) in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>Brock earned his BA in anthropology from Pitzer and holds an MPA from Columbia University and a PhD in social welfare from UCLA.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":320,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Thomas Brock &raquo; 2019 CAPR Conference<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/postsecondaryreadiness.org\/capr2019\/speakers\/thomas-brock\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Thomas Brock &raquo; 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