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Cary Sneider is a Visiting Scholar at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon and a Consultant for charitable foundations that are working to solve environmental and educational problems. In recent years he served as lead for engineering on the writing team for A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts and Core Ideas. He played a similar role on the writing team for the Next Generation Science Standards. Until 2019 he served as a member of the National Assessment Governing Board, which sets policy for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as “The Nation’s Report Card.”  In 2018 Sneider received the Robert H. Carleton Award for national leadership in the field of science education, the National Science Teachers Association’s highest award for lifetime achievement.

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Cary Sneider is a Visiting Scholar at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon, where until recently he taught research methodology in a Master of Science Teaching program. Dr. Sneider serves as a consultant on STEM Education for the STEM Next Opportunity Fund and the Stephen D. Bechtel Jr. Foundation, in support of their STEM initiatives. He was the lead consultant on engineering to the National Research Council committee that developed A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts and Core Ideas, and served in a similar role on the writing team for the Next Generation Science Standards. Since 2011 he has been a member of the National Assessment Governing Board, which sets policy for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as “The Nation’s Report Card.” Before moving to Oregon Dr. Sneider was Vice President for Programs at the Museum of Science in Boston, and prior to that he served as Director of Astronomy and Physics Education at Lawrence Hall of Science, U.C. Berkeley. Sneider earned a BA degree in Astronomy at Harvard College, and a California Secondary Teaching Credential, Master of Arts Degree, and PhD in Science Education at the University of California, Berkeley. Sneider has received numerous awards, including the 2018 Robert H. Carleton Award for national leadership in the field of science education, the National Science Teachers Association’s highest award for lifetime achievement.