Dr. Eric Tucker is the President and CEO of the Study Group. He has served as President of Equity by Design, Superintendent and Executive Director of Brooklyn Laboratory Charter Schools, CEO of Friends of Brooklyn LAB, Cofounder of Educating All Learners Alliance, Senior Research Scientist at UCLA Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), Cofounder and Executive Director of InnovateEDU, director at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Executive Director and Chief Academic Officer of the National Association for Urban Debate Leagues, and Founder of the Rhode Island Urban Debate League. As an entrepreneurial, strategic, and impact-focused leader, Dr. Tucker has 25 years of experience building catalytic partnerships in education, securing over $300 million of investments for enterprises and initiatives that have transformed outcomes for diverse learners and educators. Dr. Tucker has expertise in measurement and assessment system innovation, inclusive and advanced R&D, analytics, and human infrastructures for improvement.
Dr. Tucker served as a MacArthur Foundation/ETS Gordon Fellow at Arizona State University and has conducted research for the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop. He served as an advisory board member for Working Examples, a project at the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University. As co-founder, Chief Academic Officer, and Executive Director of the National Association for Urban Debate Leagues, Dr. Tucker helped build and grow a network of Urban Debate Leagues serving over 20 metropolitan areas and 450 schools. Dr. Tucker founded and led the Rhode Island Urban Debate League and held positions in the Office of the Superintendent in the Providence School Department, the Institute of Education at the University of London, and the Institute for Elementary and Secondary Education. He has taught in the Providence Public Schools and the Chicago Public Schools. Dr. Tucker has a DPhil and an MSc from Oxford University and degrees in Public Policy and Africana Studies from Brown University.