Head of Carnegie Research Center Announces Retirement

Lee S. Shulman, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, in Stanford, Calif., has announced that he will retire in August 2008, The Chronicle of Higher Education reports.

Mr. Shulman said he had always planned to leave the presidency after 10 or 12 years.

During his tenure at the Carnegie research center, Mr. Shulman has made the “scholarship of teaching and learning” far more important than it used to be, both at the higher-education and the elementary and secondary levels, said David S. Tatel, the chairman of the organization’s board and a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. “It’s a field that Lee Shulman has virtually recreated,” he said.

Mr. Shulman said he intends to immerse himself in the work of the foundation during his final year as its president, and then he and his wife, Judy, who has edited books on education, will take a year to travel and collaborate with educational institutions.