Before coming to the Foundation, he was the senior education researcher and coordinator of education research for the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, a nonprofit organization in New York City. Previously, he was on the faculty of Yale University’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies and was a researcher at the Rand Corporation, where he was a co-author of the Change Agent Study of educational innovations. He has been an advisor to several national education studies and a consultant to the National Research Council, and has testified before Congressional committees. Pauly is the author of two books: The Classroom Crucible: What Really Works, What Doesn’t, and Why (1991, Basic Books) and Homegrown Lessons: Innovative Programs Linking School and Work (1995, Jossey-Bass). He also is the co-author, with Judith M. Gueron, of From Welfare to Work (published by the Russell Sage Foundation), a book on programs to help people on welfare become employed. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Princeton and a Ph.D. from Yale. From 2005 until 2007, he was Chair of Grantmakers for Effective Organizations.