Joe Walters, Ed. D., Vice President, Research
As Vice President of Research at CS4Ed, Joe focuses on issues of product evaluation, program development, curriculum, and assessment. He has spent nearly 25 years in the field of education and education research. Joe started his career as a high school math teacher, worked for several years with special needs teenagers, and then pursued doctoral training at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. After graduating he worked for 15 years at Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, investigating intelligence, assessment, and technology and later at TERC, an educational R&D organization in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he directed projects that explored the role of Internet technology in math and science education.

Joe spent several years in the for-profit sector, at Riverdeep The Learning Company, a commercial developer of educational software, as the director of assessment and evaluation. In his career, he has written over 50 proposals and directed 20 grant-funded research and development projects from Rockefeller Foundation, Pew Charitable Trusts, Lilly Endowment, the Markle Foundation, Intel Corporation, the National Science Foundation, the U. S. Department of Education, and others. He is the author of dozens of papers and books and has lectured around the world on the psychology of human intelligence, creativity, and technology.