Alice Evans, Ph.D. holds an M.A.T. degree from Spalding (KY) University and a Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut. Her working career spanned classroom teaching, school district administration and positions in two state agencies of education, with her final position before retirement that of being Vermont's first director of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) program. An Ohio native, lived in 10 communities in five states both south and north of the Mason-Dixon line before she saw Vermont for the first time. Since then she has considered Waitsfield, Vermont her adopted hometown.