He received his B.A. degree in Psychology from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI) in 1971 and his Ph.D. in Education from Indiana University (Bloomington, IN) in 1979. He worked in the Boston Public Schools' Office of Research, Assessment and Evaluation for 15 years before coming to Salem State in 2001. With three other faculty members from Salem, he has been taking students to do fieldwork in Liberia for the past four years. Currently he has a Fulbright Specialist grant to work on assessment with faculty and students at Petro Mohyla Black Sea State University in Mykolayiv.