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Ramirez, chief education officer for the Los Angeles County Office of Education, quickly contacted colleagues and realized it was true.

The learning-by-doing formula was an approach Dr. Schank pursued at a few learning start-ups he founded and at Carnegie Mellon’s Silicon Valley campus in Mountain View, Calif., where he was chief education officer from 2001 to 2004.

Humphries, a former history teacher and now chief education officer at iCivics, a nonprofit that promotes civics education and provides educational resources for teachers, knew to frame what is happening in a historical way, comparing it to the previous world wars, and explaining how it is different.

You might have heard the announcement this year that CPS’s chief executive, chief operating officer and chief education officer were all leaving, in a sweep that reeked of political dysfunction.

McDade is currently the chief education officer in the Chicago Public Schools district.