Roderick Raynor Paige was born on June 17,1933 and served as the 7th United States Secretary of Education from 2001 to 2005.
24 Facts About Rod Paige
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On November 15,2004, Rod Paige announced his resignation after overseeing the President's education agenda for four years.
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Rod Paige served as interim president of his alma mater, Jackson State University, from November 2016 to June 2017.
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Rod Paige earned a bachelor's degree from Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi.
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Rod Paige earned a master's degree and a Doctor of Education degree in Physical Education from Indiana University Bloomington.
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Rod Paige served in the United States Navy from 1955 to 1957.
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From 1971 to 1975, Rod Paige served as head football coach at Texas Southern University, and served as the university's athletic director from 1971 to 1980.
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Rod Paige first moved to Houston in the 1970s, settling in the Brentwood subdivision.
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Rod Paige started a move to excise a dump from the edge of the community.
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Rod Paige taught at Texas Southern University from 1980 to 1984 and became the Dean of the College of Education in 1984, where he served until 1994.
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Rod Paige established the university's Center for Excellence in Urban Education, a research facility that concentrates on issues related to instruction and management in urban school systems.
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Rod Paige became the superintendent of schools of HISD in 1994.
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Rod Paige started a system of charter schools that have broad authority in decisions regarding staffing, textbooks, and materials.
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Rod Paige saw to it that HISD paid teachers salaries competitive with those offered by other large Texas school districts.
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Rod Paige made HISD the first school district in the state to institute performance contracts modeled on those in the private sector, whereby senior staff members' continued employment with HISD is based on their performance.
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Rod Paige introduced teacher incentive pay, which rewards teachers for raising test scores.
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Under Rod Paige HISD contracted with three private schools that were certified by the Texas Education Agency to teach HISD students so their parents did not have to bus them to schools across the city.
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The No Child Left Behind law that set new accountability standards nationwide was developed with Rod Paige's help, and it was Rod Paige's Department of Education that implemented the law.
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Rod Paige proposed amendments to the regulations implementing Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 to provide more flexibility for educators to establish single-sex classes and schools at the elementary and secondary levels.
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Rod Paige has served on review committees of the Texas Education Agency and the State Board of Education's Task Force on High School Education, and he has chaired the Youth Employment Issues Subcommittee of the National Commission for Employment Policy of the US Department of Labor.
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Rod Paige is a member of the NAACP National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
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Rod Paige is a former member of the Houston Job Training Partnership Council, the Community Advisory Board of Texas Commerce Bank, the American Leadership Forum, and the board of directors of the Texas Business and Education Coalition.
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Rod Paige is a member of Phi Beta Sigma fraternity.
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Rod Paige serves on the board of trustees for the American College of Education.