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ARTHUR D. SHEEKEY
The CNA Corporation
4825 Mark Drive
Alexandria, VA 22311
SheekeyA@CNA.org
Art Sheekey is project director of the Appalachian Technology in
Education Consortium. ATEC is a regional consortium funded by a
$5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education for the purpose
of fostering the effective use of telecommunications technology to enhance
and improve education. Previously, Dr. Sheekey served as the Coordinator
for Learning Technologies for the Council of Chief State School Officers.
At CCSSO, he served as the principal investigator for grants from the
National Science Foundation, Verizon, AT&T Foundation, among others.
From 1995-1998, Dr. Sheekey was President and Senior Associate at the
Public Service Telecommunications Corporation (PSTC). While at PSTC, he
worked as a consultant to national, state and local education agencies
and organizations. During that time, he represented Information Gatekeepers,
Inc, a publishing firm based in Boston, participated as a panelist at
several national education conferences, and published numerous articles
on education policy and telecommunications. In 1997 wrote a book, Education
and Telecommunications: Critical Issues and Resources. His work for the
past ten years has concentrated on legislative and regulatory developments
in science, technology and education reform. He edited How to Ensure Ed/Tech
Is Not Oversold and Underused, which was published by Scarecrow Press
(2003).
From 1980-1990, Dr. Sheekey was a senior policy analyst in the Office
of Educational Research and Improvement at the U.S. Department of Education.
His responsibilities involved the management of programs and planning
initiatives focusing on education research and applications of telecommunications
technologies for delivering education and related public services. As
a ComSci Fellow in 1991-1992, he worked in the Office of Plans and Policy
at the Federal Communications Commission and in the White House Office
of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). At the FCC, he contributed to
the preparation of special hearings and reports, including, Networks
of the Future (1991). At OSTP, he prepared background testimony statements
and special reports on science and engineering education for the Science
Advisor and for the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
Dr. Sheekey served as Director of the Education Information Resources
Division and Acting Director of the Division of Postsecondary and Adult
Education in the Office of Research at the U.S. Department of Education.
He served as an education policy analyst to President Carter’s Reorganization
Project at the Office of Management and Budget. Prior to the creation
of the Education Department in 1980, he was the principal planning and
budget officer for the Assistant Secretary for Education at the Department
of Health, Education, and Welfare.
Dr. Sheekey is a member of Phi Delta Kappa, an international association
of professional educators and a guest lecturer at the University of St.
Thomas in St. Paul, MN. He has been a member of tile Alliance for Public
Technology Board, senior associate and contributing editor for the Youth
Policy Institute, Senior Associate at tile American Association for Higher
Education, Senior Fellow at the Consortium of Universities of the Washington
Area, and Resident Scholar at Stanford University’s Graduate School of
Education. He taught high school and junior high school science for five
years in New Jersey. He has a BS in science from New Jersey City University,
MA from Seton Hall University and Ph.D. in educational technology from
The Catholic University in Washington, DC.
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