EXPERTS
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Andrew J. Coulson | Cato Institute | Director of the Center for Educational Freedom
Andrew J. Coulson is the director of Cato’s Center for Educational Freedom. He is the author of the 1999 book Market Education: The Unknown History and a contributor to books published by the Fraser Institute and the Hoover Institution.
Chester E. Finn, Jr., Ph.D. | Thomas B. Fordham Institute | President
Chester E. Finn, Jr., scholar, educator and public servant, has devoted his career to improving education in the United States. As Senior Fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution and chairman of Hoover's Koret Task Force on K-12 Education, President of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, and Senior Editor of Education Next, his primary focus is the reform of primary and secondary schooling.
Dan Goldhaber Ph.D. | University of Washington | Research Professor
Dr. Dan Goldhaber is a Research Professor at the University of Washington Bothell, an Affiliated Scholar at the Urban Institute, and a Senior Non-resident Fellow at Education Sector. Dr. Goldhaber’s work focuses on issues of educational productivity and reform at the K-12 level, and the relationship between teacher labor markets and teacher quality.
Jay P. Greene Ph.D., | University of Arkansas - Head, Department of Education Reform
Jay P. Greene is a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and endowed chair and head of the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas. Greene conducts research and writes about education policy, including topics such as school choice, high school graduation rates, accountability, and special education.
Eric A. Hanushek Ph.D Stanford University / Hoover Institution - Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow
Eric Hanushek is the Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. He has been a leader in the development of economic analysis of educational issues, and his work on efficiency, resource usage, and economic outcomes of schools has entered into the design of both national and international educational policy.
Paul T. Hill, Ph.D., University Of Washington- Center on Reinventing Public Education Director and Research Professor
Paul T. Hill is the John and Marguerite Corbally Professor at the University of Washington. He is Director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education, which studies alternative governance and finance systems for public K-12 education.
E. Donald Hirsch Jr. - Core Knowledge Foundation Founder and Chairman
E. D. Hirsch Jr. was a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution from 1999 to 2006 and a charter member of the Koret Task Force on K–12 Education (1999–2006).
Joanne Jacobs, Freelance Writer and Author
Once a Knight Ridder columnist, Joanne Jacobs is now a freelance writer and author of a book about a charter school that prepares Hispanic students for college.
Frederick M. Hess, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Frederick M. Hess, AEI's director of education policy studies, is an educator, political scientist, and author. At AEI, Mr. Hess studies a range of K-12 and higher education issues.
Dan Lips, Heritage Foundation Senior Policy Analyst, Domestic Policy
Dan Lips is a Senior Policy Analyst at The Heritage Foundation, where he researches and writes on federal and state education issues.
Jennifer Marshall, Heritage Foundation Director, Domestic Policy
As Director of Domestic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation, Jennifer A. Marshall oversees research in areas that determine the character of our culture: education, marriage, family, religion, and civil society.
Neil McClusky Cato Institute Associate Director of the Center for Educational Freedom
Neal McCluskey is the associate director of Cato's Center for Educational Freedom. Prior to arriving at Cato, McCluskey served in the U.S. Army, taught high school English, and was a freelance reporter covering municipal government and education in suburban New Jersey. More recently, he was a policy analyst at the Center for Education Reform.
Sara Mead New America Foundation Senior Research Fellow, Education Policy Program
Sara Mead conducts research and writes about early childhood, elementary, and secondary education. Her work has been featured in The Washington Post and USA Today, and on CBS and ABC News.
John D. Merrifield Ph.D. University of Texas, San Antonio Professor of Economics
John Merrifield specializes in the areas of: Economics of Education (K-12), Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, Urban-Regional Economics, International Economics, and Public Choice.
Diane Ravitch Ph.D. New York University Research Professor of Education
Diane Ravitch is Research Professor of Education at New York University. She is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. 
Andrew J. Rotherham Education Sector Founder and Director
Andrew Rotherham is co-founder and publisher of Education Sector, an independent national education policy think tank. Rotherham is currently a member of the board of directors of the Indianapolis Mind Trust and Democrats for Education Reform.
Lisa Snell Reason Foundation Director of Education and Child Welfare
Lisa Snell is the director of education and child welfare at Reason Foundation, a nonprofit think tank advancing free minds and free markets.
Richard Vedder, American Enterprise Institute Visiting Scholar
Dr. Richard Vedder is Distinguished Professor of Economics at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. Vedder has written over 100 scholarly papers published in academic journals and books, and his work has also appeared in numerous newspapers and magazine.
Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom Various Authors/Scholars
Thernstrom and her husband, Harvard historian Stephan Thernstrom, are the co-authors of No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning, America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible and more.
Mike Anonucci, Education Intelligence Agency Director
Mike is the director of the Education Intelligence Agency and has covered the education beat since 1993. Education Week calls him "the nation's leading observer -- and critic -- of the two national teachers' unions and their affiliates." Mike's writings have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Investor's Business Daily, The American Enterprise, and many other periodicals.
Nelson Smith National Alliance for Public Charter Schools President and CEO
Nelson Smith, a nationally recognized expert on charter schools and education policy, is the President of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools.
James Tooley Ph.D. E.G. West Centre Director
James’s main scholarly work is on the role of the state in education, and on private education, privatisation and public-private partnerships in developing countries and transition economies.
Thomas J. Kane Ph.D Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor of Education and Economics
Thomas Kane is professor of education and economics at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and faculty director of the Project for Policy Innovation in Education, a new program that partners with states and districts to evaluate innovative policies.