University of Pennsylvania, Say Yes to Education, Inc.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Dr. Norman Newberg has served as a senior fellow at the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania, and Executive Director of Say Yes to Education, Inc. over the past two decades. Dr. Newberg began his career teaching English in urban public schools, followed by two years teaching English Literature and Composition at Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey. In 1967, he joined the School District of Philadelphia's Office of Curriculum and Instruction as the director of the Affective Education. This program, which focused on the relationship between emotions and attitudes in the mastery of academic subjects, trained teachers and principals, produced nationally recognized curricula, and facilitated the development of several alternative schools. Dr. Newberg received the Alfred North Whitehead Fellowship at Harvard University (1969-1970), the Ford Foundation Travel and Study Grant (1975-1976), and the Eli Lily Distinguished Scholar Award (1992-1993). Dr. Newberg is the author of several respected publications, the most recent, The Gift of Education, focuses on the lives of the students who were the first recipients of the Say Yes to Education tuition guarantee program and was published in 2006. Dr. Newberg received his BA from Temple University in 1956, MA from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana (1961), and Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1978.