Frank Davis

Activities and Honors:
Dr. Frank E. Davis began his tenure as president of TERC in February, 2007. Prior to this appointment Dr. Davis served as Professor of Education and director of the Doctoral Program in Education Studies at Lesley University.

Davis joined the faculty of Lesley University in 1985. Under his leadership, the Doctoral Program saw tremendous growth, contributing to the expansion of Lesley and its transition from a college to a university. He has an ongoing relationship with the Algebra Project, a network of sites dedicated to improving mathematics achievement for African American and other minority students that was founded by Robert Moses. For the project, Davis has led research and evaluation efforts supported by the National Science Foundation and several well-known philanthropies, including the Boston, GE, Lilly, Soros and MacArthur foundations.

Prior to his appointment at Lesley, Davis was a professor at the University of Massachusetts where he helped develop a mathematics program for adult learners interested in careers in public service. Before that, he was the mathematics curriculum coordinator for a Boston Model Cities project designed to ensure that post-secondary students could make a successful transition into undergraduate programs.

Davis holds a doctorate from Harvard University Graduate School of Education and a master's in physics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has been a visiting scholar at Stanford University, an American Educational Research Association Fellow at the National Science Foundation, and the recipient of a Danforth Graduate Fellowship while at Harvard University.

Davis holds a doctorate from Harvard University Graduate School of Education and a master's in physics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has been a visiting scholar at Stanford University, an American Educational Research Association Fellow at the National Science Foundation, and the recipient of a Danforth Graduate Fellowship while at Harvard University.