Ellen Forte, Ph.D.
President and Founder
edCount, LLC
Panelist, General Session: Transformation in Action−Keeping Current on Common Core
Tuesday, June 7
2:30 - 4:00 pm
Dr. Forte is the President and Founder of edCount, LLC, a woman-owned small business based in Washington, DC. With nearly two decades’ experience conducting research, providing advice and reporting on standards, assessments, and accountability, Dr. Forte is a respected authority on the successful interpretation and implementation of education policies.
Dr. Forte is currently the Principal Investigator for a number of validity evaluation projects in several US states, Puerto Rico, and the Pacific Rim territories, and a senior advisor to three federally-funded national projects on programs and assessments for English learners. Dr. Forte is the chief policy advisor to the National Deaf Education Center at Gallaudet University on its implementation of standards, assessments, and accountability mechanisms and serves on the Technical Advisory Committees for Louisiana, South Dakota, and Montana. She is a member of the TESOL Standards Committee and the editorial boards for Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, the National Council on Measurement in Education newsletter, the NCLB Advisor, and the “No Child Left Behind Alert” published by Eli Research.
Dr. Forte wrote The Administrator’s Guide to Federal Programs for English Learners, published by Thompson Publishing, Inc., in 2010; over the past several years, Dr. Forte has also written a number of monographs on state accountability systems, including five annual papers tracking changes in states’ NCLB-related accountability models. Dr. Forte earned her doctorate in Educational Psychology from the University of Iowa with the support of a fellowship from the Iowa Testing Program.
