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William
Demmert, Jr. Biography
Western Washington University
Woodring College of Education
Bellingham, Washington 98225-9088
voice: (360) 650-3032
fax: (360) 650-6526
EMAIL: wm.demmert@wwu.edu
EDUCATION
Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) Harvard University, 1973
RECENT WORK EXPERIENCE
1998-present Associate Professor, Woodring College of Education, Western
Washington University, Bellingham, WA
1992-1998 Visiting Professor, Woodring College of Education, Western
Washington University, Bellingham, WA
1990-1992 Irvine Scholar & Visiting Professor, School of Education,
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
1987-1990 Commissioner of Education, State of Alaska, Juneau, AL
1984-1987 Professor of Education and Dean, School of Education and
Liberal Arts, University of Alaska-Juneau
1980-1982 Deputy Commissioner, Alaska Department of Fish and Game,
Juneau, Alaska
1976-1978 Director of Indian Education Programs, Bureau of Indian Affairs,
US Dept. of the Interior, Washington DC
1975-1976 Deputy Commissioner, U.S. Office of Education, Health, Education
and Welfare, Washington DC
RECENT RELATED EXPERIENCE
1998 Member National Indian Task Force. Worked on a Presidential Executive
Order (President Clinton), Presented 8/6/1998
1998-present Expert Advisor, Office of Indian Education, U.S. Department
of Education, Washington D.C.
1997-present Member, Technical Work Group for the National Longitudinal
Survey of Schools, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, D.C.
1995-1997 Circle of Advisors, National Museum of the American Indian,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
1996-Present International Advisory Council, Cultural Center, Nuuk,
Greenland
1995-Present Independent Review Panel (Title I and P.L. 874:Impact
Aid), Office of Planning Budget and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Education
(Congressionally created Panel).
1995 Advisory Board, Institute for International Public Policy,
United Negro College Fund, Inc., Fairfax, VA.
1995 Peer Review Panel, Utah State Education Plan, Goals 2000,
U. S. Department of Education
1992 Member of the Clinton/Gore Council of Education Advisors,
and member of the President-elect Transition Team
1992-Present Board of Trustees, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship
Foundation, Princeton, NJ
1992-1995 Advisor, Planning and Evaluation Service, U.S. Department
of Education, Washington D.C.
1991 Advisory Committee on Multicultural Education, Stanford University
1991 Standards Task Force, National Council on Educational Standards
and Testing, Washington, D.C.
NATIONAL COMMISSIONS AND REPORTS
Member, Independent Review Panel, Report - "Measured Progress: The
Report of the Independent Review Panel on the Evaluation of Federal Education
Legislation, April 1999
Member, National Commision on Teaching America's Future, 1st Report "What Matters Most: Teaching for America's Future", Sept. 1996
Member, Stanford Working Group for Federal Education Programs for Limited-English Proficient Students, Group Publication "A Blueprint for a Second Generation", June 14, 1993
Representative to the White House Conference on Indian Education, Final Report of the White House Conference on Indian Education, Volumes I & II, May 1992
Member of Quality Education for Minorities Network, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, Network Report " Education that Works: An Action Plan
for the Education of Minorities", January 1990
CURRENT RESEARCH
The education of the American Indian, the Native Alaskan, and the Native
Hawaiian has been the major focus of Demmert's work. Current research
explores education programs and schools serving Native communities to
better understand the role of traditional knowledge and systems of education
within these programs, and to assess those that are relatively successful
in providing a school environment that values academic performance, citizenship,
and more traditional social responsibilities.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Demmert, William G., Jr., "Rural Schools in a Technological World," Self
Determination in Native Education in the Circumpolar North, Editors Farrow,
Malcolm and Wilman, David, the Government of the Northwest Territories,
Department of Education, Northwest Territories, Canada, August 1989, pp.
78-86.
Native American Reader, Blanche, Jerry D., Ph.D., Editor, 1990, Denali
Press, Juneau, Alaska, pp. 133-141.
Demmert, William G. Jr., "Public Schools," and "Indian Education Act,
1972," Mary B. Davis et.al., Editors, Native America in The Twentieth
Century: An Encyclopedia, Garland Publishing, Inc., New York, 1994, pp.
486-489 & 255-256.
Demmert, William, "Blueprints for Indian Education: Languages and Cultures,"
ERIC DIGEST, EDO-RC-94-3, Clearinghouse on Rural Education and Small Schools,
Appalachia Educational Laboratory, Charleston, WV, August 1994.
Demmert, William, "Indian Nations at Risk: An Educational Strategy for
Action," Laura I. Rendon, Richard O. Hope and Associates, Editors, Educating
A New Majority, Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco, 1995, pp. 231-262.
Demmert, William G., "School and Community," Future Teacher, Recruiting
New Teachers, Inc., Vol. 5, No. 2, Spring, 1998, p. 3.
Demmert, William G., & Keskitalo, Jan Henry. "Report from the International
Steering Committee on Cross-Cultural Education in the North: Influencing
Public Policy - Education in the Circumpolar North, Equity & Excellence
in Education, The University of Massachusetts School of Education Journal,
V. 31, No. 1, April, 1998, pp. 81-83.
Demmert, William G. "Ministers of Education in the Circumpolar North:
A Consortium," Learning to be Circumpolar: Experiences in Arctic Academic
Cooperation, Richard Langlais and Outi Snellmen, editors, Publications
in the University of the Arctic Process No. 5, University of Lapland,
Rovaniemi, 1998.
LINKS
http://www.wce.wwu.edu/resources/circumpolar/Demmert/
