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Susan H. Fuhrman; President, Teachers College at Columbia University
Susan H. Fuhrman is the 10th president of Teachers College, Columbia University. Prior to this, she served for 11 years as Dean of the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education, where she was also the George and Diane Weiss Professor of Education. She was at Rutgers's Eagleton Institute of Politics and a professor of education policy before joining the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to her deanship and teaching, Fuhrman has been chair and director of the management committee of the Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) since 1985. She is editor of From the Capitol to the Classroom: Standards-Based Reform in the States (2001) and Rewards and Reform: Creating Educational Incentives that Work (1996). Fuhrman is a former vice president of the American Educational Research Association, a member of the National Coalition on Asia and International Studies in the Schools, and she serves on the board of The Fund for New Jersey. She has a B.A. and M.A. from Northwestern University and a Ph.D. from Columbia University.
William E. Brock, Chairman, The Brock Offices
Former Senator and Ambassador William Brock served in the U.S. House of Representatives, The U.S. Senate, and in the President’s Cabinet as U.S. Trade Representative and subsequently as U.S. Secretary of Labor. During his more that thirty years in public service, Senator Brock spearheaded numerous national reform efforts on education, including Workforce 2000, the Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce, the Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS), and the Wingspread Group on Improving Higher Education. He is founder and chairman of The Brock Offices, a firm specializing in international trade, investment, and human resources.
M. Christopher Brown II; Dean of the College of Education, University of Nevada at Las Vegas; Former Vice President at the American Association for Colleges of Teacher Education
M. Christopher Brown II is Professor and Dean of the College of Education at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He previously served as Vice President for Programs and Administration at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, Director of Social Justice and Professional Development for the American Educational Research Association (AERA), as well as Executive Director and Chief Research Scientist of the Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute of the United Negro College Fund. Dr. Brown has held faculty appointments The Pennsylvania State University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Dr. Brown began his career as an elementary school teacher in Orangeburg, SC. He has earned a national reputation for his research and scholarly writing on education policy, governance/administration, and institutional contexts. He is especially well known for his studies of historically black colleges, educational equity, and professorial responsibilities. Dr. Brown has lectured and/or presented research in various countries on six continents – Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America. Dr. Brown received his B.S. in Elementary Education from South Carolina State University and the M.S.Ed. in Educational Policy and Evaluation from the University of Kentucky. He received a Ph.D. in Higher Education from The Pennsylvania State University with a cognate in public administration and political science.
Sara Hebel, The Chronicle of Higher Education
Sara Hebel is the senior editor of government and politics at The Chronicle of Higher Education. In her nearly 10 years at The Chronicle, she has covered state and federal public-policy debates related to college preparation, access, cost, and accountability as well as topics of public-university governance and finance. She previously covered Congress for an online news service affiliated with The Washington Post Company and earned a bachelor's and master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University.
Rick Hess; Resident Scholar and Director of Education Policy Studies; American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Frederick M. Hess is a resident scholar and director of Education Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. He is also executive editor of Education Next. He is best known for his work on a broad range of K-12 and higher education issues including accountability in education, charter schooling and school choice, the politics of education reform, collective bargaining, No Child Left Behind, teacher and administrative preparation, certification and licensing, school governance, college affordability, and the importance of entrepreneurship. Dr. Hess is also a faculty associate of the Harvard University Program in Education Policy and Governance and serves as Innovations Advisor in Education and Training for the Ash Institute at Harvard University. He is on the Review Board for the Broad Prize in Urban Education, the Research Advisory Board for the National Center for Educational Accountability, and the Charter School Accreditation Advisory Board of the American Academy for Liberal Education. He is also a senior research associate for the School Choice Demonstration Project at Georgetown University. From 2001-2003, he served on the National Working Commission on Choice in K-12 Education. A former public high school social studies teacher in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Dr. Hess has held teaching licenses in Louisiana and Massachusetts. He holds an M.Ed. in Teaching and Curriculum and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University. Prior to joining AEI, Dr. Hess taught education and politics at the University of Virginia and served as a senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute.
Gloria Ladson Billings; Professor of Education at the University of Wisconsin at Madison; Former President of the American Educational Research Association
Gloria Ladson-Billings is the Kellner Family Professor of Urban Education in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the 2005-2006 president of the American Educational Research Association. Her research examines the pedagogical practices of teachers who are successful with African American students. Her work has won numerous scholarly awards, including the H.I. Romnes faculty fellowship, the Spencer Post-doctoral Fellowship, and the Palmer O. Johnson Outstanding research award. In 2002, Ladson-Billings was awarded an honorary doctorate from Umea University in Umea, Sweden and in 2003-2004 was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. She is also the 2004 recipient of the George and Louise Spindler Award for ongoing contributions in educational anthropology, given by the Council on Anthropology & Education of the American Anthropological Association. Gloria Ladson-Billings also investigates Critical Race Theory applications to education. The author of the critically acclaimed books, The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children and Crossing Over to Canaan: The Journey of New Teachers in Diverse Classrooms, she has also written numerous journal articles and book chapters.
Rod Paige; Co-founder and Chairman of Chartwell Education Group LLC
Rod Paige, a life-long educator and former U.S. Secretary of Education (2001-2005), is co-founder and Chairman of Chartwell Education Group LLC, a New York-based education consulting firm with offices in Washington, DC and London. In addition to his time at Chartwell, Dr. Paige, in his quest to improve the quality of education for all students, is an active member of several highly respected boards, including the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, News Corporation, The Broad Foundation and the National Council on Economic Education’s Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce. As Secretary of Education, Dr. Paige was an unstinting advocate of student achievement, employing “best of breed” solutions to achieve results towards the Department’s goal of raising national standards of educational excellence. He earned his reputation for seeking out and implementing innovative approaches to systemic academic improvement when he served as Dean of the College of Education at Texas Southern University, where he established the university’s Center for Excellence in Urban Education. He has also shown a knack for inclusive leadership, first as a trustee and then as Superintendent of the Houston Independent School District, the nation’s seventh largest district. Dr. Paige, who served as a Public Policy Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, brings a global perspective to his work and a desire to export the best practices and products for education that the U.S. has to offer and to import those that have been successful in other countries in an effort to improve the state of education for all.
Marc Tucker, President, National Center on Education and the Economy
Marc S. Tucker is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Center on Education and the Economy. In addition to NCEE, Tucker has been instrumental in creating the Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce, the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce, the New Standards Consortium, the National Skills Standards Board, America’s Choice and the National Institute for School Leadership. He has also served as author, co-author or editor of many articles and several books and reports, including, America’s Choice; high skills or low wages!, Standards for Our Schools: How to Set Them, Measure Them and Reach Them; Thinking for a Living: Education and the Wealth of Nations; The Principal Challenge; and Tough Choices or Tough Times. Mr. Tucker has testified frequently to the U.S. Congress and state legislatures.