Ph.D. in Higher Education, Iowa State University
M.A. in Political Science, Iowa State University
M.S. in Higher Education, Iowa State University
B.A. in Political Science, The University of Tennessee

Michael Nettles is a full professor with tenure and endowed chair of predictive analytics and psychometrics at Morgan State University in Baltimore Maryland. Michael Nettles has built a national and international reputation as a researcher and scholar of education and public policy. His research and scholarly expertise include educational assessment, student performance and achievement, educational equity education finance and education data production analyses and presentation. His publications reflect his broad interest in public policy, student and faculty access, opportunity, achievement, and assessment and financing at both the K–12 and all levels of postsecondary levels. For eighteen years (2005-2023) Michael Nettles was the senior vice president for Policy Evaluation and Research at Educational Testing Service in Princeton, New Jersey, and for eleven years prior to that, as full professor with tenure at the University of Michigan (1992-2003) in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

In August 2014 President Barack Obama appointed Nettles to the President’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for African Americans. He was appointed by two US Secretaries of Education to serve on the National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB), which oversees and develops policies for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). He also served for eight years on both the College Board of Trustees and the GRE Board and immediate past chair of the Southern Education Foundation (SEF) Board of Trustees.