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Richard Arum is Associate Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences in the Professions at New York University. He is the author of Judging School Discipline: The Crisis of Moral Authority in American Schools (Harvard, 2003), which examines decades of evidence to uncover how the developing legal context has shaped school discipline. Mr. Arum has also published in numerous scholarly journals, including the Annual Review of Sociology, Sociology of Education, and American Sociological Review. He holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, and a M.Ed. in Teaching and Curriculum from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. Mr. Arum worked for six years as a teacher in the Oakland Public Schools.
Chester E. Finn, Jr. is a Senior Fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution, President of the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation and Thomas B. Fordham Institute, and Senior Editor of Education Next. He is also a Fellow of the International Academy of Education and an Adjunct Fellow at the Hudson Institute. From 1981 until 2002, Mr. Finn was Professor of Education and Public Policy at Vanderbilt University. Mr. Finn is the author of over 300 articles published in scholarly journals and other periodicals, such as the Wall Street Journal and New York Times. He has also published 13 books, most recently Rethinking Special Education for a New Century, co-edited with Andrew Rotherham and Charles Hokanson (2001). Mr. Finn serves on the boards of several education-related organizations. He holds a doctorate in Education Policy from Harvard University.
Paul T. Hill is a research professor in the University of Washington's Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs and directs the Center on Reinventing Public Education. Hill is also nonresident senior fellow in the Brookings Institution's Economic Studies Program and a member of the Koret Task Force on Education. His work focuses on reform of public elementary and secondary education. He is currently leading studies of school choice plans, charter schools, and school accountability. He is the author of Fixing Urban Schools and Reinventing Public Education.
Diane Ravitch is Research Professor of Education at New York University and the Brown Chair in Education Policy at the Brookings Institution. She is a trustee of the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, a member of the National Assessment Governing Board, and a member of the Koret Task Force at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. From 1991 to 1993, she was Assistant Secretary of Education and Counselor to Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander in the administration of President George H.W. Bush. She was responsible for the Office of Educational Research and Improvement in the U.S. Department of Education. As Assistant Secretary, she led the federal effort to promote the creation of state and national academic standards. She is the author of numerous books including most recently The Language Police and Left Back.
Ross Sandler is a Professor of Law at New York Law School, Director of the Center for New York City Law, a pioneer in the field of environmental law, and an expert on municipal government. He had a distinguished career in public service, which including a the position of Commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation under Mayor Ed Koch. He is the co-author of Democracy by Decree with David Schoenbrod.
David Schoenbrod is Professor of Law at the New York Law School and an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. His recent scholarship focuses on government officials and public interest advocates exercising power in ways that evade accountability to voters. In addition to publishing in scholarly journals and contributing to the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and other newspapers, Mr. Schoenbrod is the author of Power without Responsibility: How Congress Abuses the People through Delegation (Yale, 1993) and the co-author, with Ross Sandler, of Democracy by Decree: What Happens When Courts Run Government (Yale, 2003). During the 1970's, as a staff attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, Mr. Schoenbrod helped lead the effort to remove lead from gasoline.
Joseph Viteritti has been at New York University since 1987, where he is a Research Professor of Public Administration at the Wagner School and an Adjunct Professor of Law at the School of Law. From 1990 to 1995, Professor Viteritti served as Executive Director of the Wagner School's Center for Management. He presently serves as Co-chair and Director of the Program on Education and Civil Society, a research effort concerned with education reform and its impact on the social and political structure of cities. He has served as a special assistant to the Chancellor of the New York City public schools (1978-81), and as a principal advisor to the Superintendents of Schools in Boston (1981) and San Francisco (1992). He is the author of several books, including: Choosing Equality and New Schools for a New Century.
Deborah Wadsworth joined Public Agenda in 1986 and served as President until her retirement in September 2003. She currently serves as a Board Member and Senior Advisor to Public Agenda. For 18 years, Ms. Wadsworth was the spokesperson for Public Agenda on issues of national concern. She has written extensively on contemporary issues that are the focus of Public Agenda research and is called upon regularly to speak before Congressional committees, business groups, major policy organizations, and think tanks. Prior to joining Public Agenda,she was Executive Director of the Smart Family Foundation, Program Officer of the John and Mary R. Markle Foundation, and Director of Admissions at the State University of New York at Purchase. She holds degrees from Wellesley College and Columbia University.
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