Margaret Honey, is a former vice president of Education Development Center and former director of EDC's Center for Children and Technology, has worked in the field of educational research since 1981. She holds a doctorate from Columbia University in developmental psychology and has spent her career conducting research on the role of media in children's learning and development. Dr. Honey is currently Senior Vice President for Strategic Initiatives and Research at Wireless Generation. She is also a project director at CCT.

Dr. Honey has personally directed several research projects including efforts to identify teaching practices and assessments for 21st century skills, The Assessment of 21st Century Skills: The Current Landscape funded by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills and Skills for the 21st Century funded by Atlantic Philanthropies. She is currently the Principal Investigator on a project that is developing new approaches to teaching computational science in high schools, Computational Literacy: A Study of the Efficacy of Computational Science in High School Biology, Earth and Space Science, and Physics Classrooms funded by NSF's Interagency Education Research Initiative. Within the last two years, Dr. Honey has also led investigations of data-driven decision-making tools and practices, Linking Data with Learning: The Grow Network Study funded by Carnegie Corporation and Using Portable Computing to Build Observational Assessments for Mathematics Learning funded as part of NSF's Information Technology Research program.

As a senior scientist in the field of education technology, Dr. Honey also supports national educational research and policy initiatives. She worked with Mathematica Policy Research, the American Institutes for Research (AIR), and the Institute for Education Sciences to design a study on the effectiveness of educational technology, National Study on the Effectiveness of Educational Technology funded by U.S. Department of Education. Dr. Honey also co-authored a white paper that informed the development of the National Education Technology Plan, the nation's long-term strategy for using technology to improve student academic achievement, which was funded by U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Technology via subcontract through AIR. In addition to crafting documents written for a policy audience, Dr. Honey has testified before several U.S. Senate subcommittees about technology's effectiveness as a teaching and learning tool and about the role of the federal government in this enterprise. She also was appointed to the U.S. Department of Education's Expert Panel on Educational Technology, charged with the responsibility for creating a framework to be used in assessing the effectiveness of all educational technology programs. She has served as the chair of the National Research Council's IT Fluency and High School Graduation Outcomes Workshop Planning Committee and recently served as an advisor to the Educational Testing Service on the development of the Information, Communications Technology component of the National Assessment of Adult Literacy.