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Join NAEA Renew MembershipTERRY PETERSON
Terry K. Peterson is a senior fellow at the College of Charleston (South Carolina) and director of the Afterschool and Community Learning Network. He also chairs the national Afterschool Alliance and serves on leadership committees for the National Alliance for Excellence in Education; the National School Boards Association; the Coalition for Community Schools; Foundations, Inc.; and the National Center for Summer Learning at The Johns Hopkins University.
His publications include The Afterschool Advantage: Powerful New Learning Opportunities with Foundations, Inc., Understanding the Market for Arts Education with Americans for the Arts and Afterschool in the Global Age with the Asia Society.
While holding executive-level state and federal positions, Terry helped develop and enact numerous national education policies and funding streams including the 21st Century Community Learning Centers, Arts Education Partnership, E-Rate and teacher and technology quality grants. At the state level, he has developed and enacted early childhood initiatives; a teacher recruitment center; school, principal and teacher incentive programs; innovation funds for teachers and schools; new education accountability systems; and arts in the basic curriculum.
Terry has done work internationally in Argentina, Mongolia, Brazil, Northern Ireland and Ireland. He holds a doctorate from the University of South Carolina with an emphasis in education research and a bachelor's in chemistry and education from the University of Wisconsin.
Clips from Terry Peterson 
On the Importance of Being Seen as Developing Job Skills
On What's Necessary to Promote the Arts
The Value of the Arts: A Personal Perspective
On After School Programs
