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Rod Paige Rod Paige was born in Monticello, Mississippi and is the son of public school educators. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Jackson State University in Mississippi and earned his master’s degree and a doctorate from Indiana University. Paige first began coaching college-level athletics after school but always remained committed to public education. He later served for a decade as Dean of the College of Education at Texas Southern University where he established the university’s Center for Excellence in Education. Paige later went on to become a trustee and an officer of the Board of Education of the Houston Independent District (HISD) from 1989 to 1994. He then became the superintendent of schools of HISD in 1994. Paige made HISD th