Past Inductees

Jeanne Hayes
President
Quality Education Data, Inc.
2002

In 1981, Jeanne Hayes founded Quality Education Data, Inc. (QED), a nationally recognized leader in tracking and interpreting education technology trends and data. Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, QED has more than 8,000 customers that use its research services and data base about U.S. elementary and secondary schools and colleges in a variety of applications.

In her capacity as QED's President and CEO, she has developed a National Education Database™ of U.S. and Canadian schools and other education institutions using proprietary data, government taxonomy and numbering systems. The National Education Database™ is the core data resource which supports all QED products and services, including custom education market research, database design and annual research reports. In 1997, QED introduced its National Registry of Teachers by Name™, a database of over 4.3 million educators by name, telephone-verified at the school building level.

In January 1999, Scholastic Inc., the global children’s publishing and media company, purchased Quality Education Data, Inc. Since that acquisition, Jeanne Hayes has been appointed Vice President of Marketing Development at Scholastic Inc. In that position, she has assumed ownership of the enterprise-wide customer database. She also continues in her other roles of providing market support to business units, conducting marketing community meetings and providing technology outreach for the corporation and high-level sales and product development support to QED.

Since 1987, Hayes has conducted studies of technology installed base and intent-to-purchase in the nation's schools. These reports, Internet Usage in Public Schools and Technology Purchasing Forecast have become annual barometers for technology trends in the nation's schools, and have been cited by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, U.S. News and World Report and Congressional studies of technology in schools.

A popular speaker and a specialist in education information, Hayes has presented findings regarding educational technology trends to a wide variety of audiences, including educators, product developers, legislators, trade associations and the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee. She has also appeared on nationwide telecasts to communications companies and has presented findings for executives in videotape format. A board member of the Software Information Industries Association’s (SIIA) e-Business section, Hayes also served as one of the founding members of the CEO Forum on Education and Technology; as a corporate member and treasurer of the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN); and as a board member of the Education Section of SIIA. A recipient of numerous awards, Hayes was most recently recognized as CoSN’s Private Sector Champion for 2002 as well as the eSchool News’ Impact 30 for 2001 and Converge Magazines’ ‘Those Who Make a Difference’ 2000.

As a breast cancer survivor, Hayes attributes her energy and passion for education to a renewed appreciation of life. Hayes' husband, Tom, is a clinical psychologist in private practice who has authored several publications regarding the moving problems of school-age children and has appeared on various radio and TV shows as an expert in child psychology. Their son, Colin, is a graduate of New York University and works as a programmer with an Internet firm in New York.

Read her interview in AEP ONLINE.