Baylor grad gets education post
George Alan Smith, a 1987 graduate of Baylor School, has been named chief of staff of the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Vocational and Adult Education.
Smith, who was a faculty member at Baylor from 1993 to 1997, previously served with the office of the state superintendent of education within the office of the mayor for the District of Columbia. He served in that office from June 2007, when he began as a member of the educational reform transition team.
He also served as the division chief for the agency’s education excellence division from 2008 to 2009, when he was appointed as assistant superintendent for postsecondary education.
Previously, Smith served as program adviser in the teacher education program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where he received both his master’s degree and doctorate in education.