Marge Petit is Senior Associate at the National Center for Improving Educational Assessment (Center for Assessment). Prior to assuming the position of senior associate of NCIEA, Ms. Petit served as Vermont's Deputy Commissioner of Education. From September 1999 to February 2000 she served as Vermont's Acting Commissioner of Education. Ms. Petit provided statewide leadership with Commissioner Marc Hull in the implementation of the quality aspects of The Vermont Equal Educational Opportunity Act. Her work was built upon nearly a decade of research and development in standards-based restructuring efforts at the classroom, district, state and national levels, and 23 years of experience as a classroom teacher primarily in mathematics and science. Her experience in the implementation of a standards-based system extends from the classroom, to research and development, to state and national level policy. She has served on a number of national advisory boards and panels: the advisory board for the Voluntary National Mathematics test; the advisory board for the Achieve Middle School Mathematics Project; the planning committee for the 2004 NAEP Mathematics Framework; and the RAND Mathematics Study Panel. She currently serves on the Mathematical Science Education Board (MSEB) and the Education Board for the National Academy of Sciences.