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Abstract

Robert Sanborn and Angelo Giardino's introduction for Volume 3, Issue 2: Measuring Success in Public Education.

Author Biography

Robert D. Sanborn, Ed.D. earned his undergraduate degree at Florida State University and his doctorate at Columbia University in New York City. Before entering the non-profit sector, he had a distinguished career in higher education at institutions such as Rice University and Hampshire College. He has worked and served as a senior leader with many organizations, always bringing with him a focus on innovation, collaborations with like-minded groups, resource developing partnerships, and a belief that all children deserve extraordinary opportunities to succeed. Under his leadership, CHILDREN AT RISK has expanded its influence considerably. Notable achievements include launching the Public Policy and Law Center, CHILDREN AT RISK Institute and the Center to End Trafficking and Exploitation of Children, directing significantly increased media attention to the issues championed by the organization, and increasing the organizational capacity to drive macro-level change to improve the lives of Texas’ most defenseless children.

Angelo P. Giardino, M.D., Ph.D. is the Vice President/Chief Medical Officer of Texas Children’s Health Plan, Chief Quality Officer for Medicine at Texas Children’s Hospital, a clinical professor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital, an Adjunct Professor in the School of Public Health at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, an attending physician on the Texas Children’s Hospital Child Protection Team. He is Board Certified in Pediatrics and Child Abuse. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and a member of the Academic Pediatrics Association and Texas Pediatric Society where he is co-chair of the Children with Disabilities Committee and serves on the Child Abuse and Neglect Committee. His academic accomplishments include publishing several textbooks on child abuse and neglect, presenting on a variety of pediatric topics at national and regional conferences, and serving on several national boards including the Board of Directors for Prevent Child Abuse America, the National Advisory Board of the Institute for Safe Families and the Advisory Board for Justice for Children.

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the members of the Center for Social Measurement and Evaluation at CHILDREN AT RISK for their hard work to further improve the measurement of success in public education on a daily basis.

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