Michael Howard Holzman

Michael Holzman is a writer and independent consultant. He is the author of a number of books, articles and reviews in the fields of education, literature, literacy and history. His James Jesus Angleton, The CIA and the Craft of Counterintelligence, was published in 2008, by the University of Massachusetts Press. His novel, Transgressions, set in England in the period 1934 to 1941 and his biography of Guy Burgess are available from Amazon. His earlier books include Writing as Social Action, with Marilyn Cooper, and Lukacs's Road to God.

He is the author of the Schott Foundation's series Public Education and Black Male Students: A State Report Card and Lost Opportunity: A Fifty State Report on Opportunity in America and many other reports.

He has been an advisor to the Rockefeller Foundation's National Minority Female Single Parent Employment Skills Program, an evaluator and advisor to the Rockefeller Foundation's teacher professional development initiatives in the arts and humanities in Los Angeles and Philadelphia, and project director of the Bruner Foundation's evaluation of the New York State Community Schools initiative. With Dr. Jane MacKillop, he designed an adult literacy initiative for Philadelphia and co-edited The Gateway: Paths to Adult Learning, a national literacy program that enabled at least 30,000 adults to learn to read.

Dr. Holzman was a founding Senior Advisor for the Panasonic Foundation, where he participated in the development of the Foundation's "school-house to statehouse" systemic school reform initiative. His responsibilities at Panasonic included evaluation, analysis, planning and implementation of structural reform and standards-based curricular improvements in school districts from San Diego to Miami, Minneapolis to Baton Rouge and a number of state departments of education.

As Program Officer for Education at the American Council of Learned Societies, Dr. Holzman designed and operated a national humanities teacher development program, which brought outstanding teachers together with world-class scholars at UCLA, the University of Colorado, Harvard and other sites around the country. He created and implemented a teacher exchange program between the United States and China, which improved the English language skills of teachers of English in selective Chinese secondary schools and introduced American teachers and their students to Chinese language and culture.

Dr. Holzman has served as a program director and development officer for a variety of other organizations and as a consultant to a wide variety of educational, arts, legal and public health organizations in the United States, United Kingdom and the Middle East, helping them to raise support for their work. He taught and was an administrator at the University of California and the University of Southern California. He served as director of the California/USC Writing Project (k-12 teacher professional development) and the Model Literacy Program at the University of Southern California.

He received a doctorate from the University of California, San Diego in Literature.