Education 2001: Getting the Job Done, A Memorandum to the President-Elect and the 107th Congress

President, Thomas B. Fordham Institute

Michael J. Petrilli is president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, executive editor of Education Next, editor in chief of the Education Gadfly Weekly, host of the…

Chester E. Finn, Jr., scholar, educator and public servant, has devoted his career to improving education in the United States. At Fordham, he is now Distinguished Senior Fellow and President Emeritus. He’s also a Volker Senior Fellow at…

Marci Kanstoroom is Senior Editor at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, where she works on a variety of national research projects. She is also Executive Editor at Education Next. Previously, as Research Director at Fordham, she wrote and edited numerous publications on charter schools, teacher quality, and federal education policy, and she testified on education issues before the U.S. House of…

Diane Ravitch is Research Professor at New York University and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.

In 1993-94, she was a Visiting Fellow in Governmental Studies at Brookings. From 1991 to 1993, she served as Assistant Secretary of Education and Counselor to the Secretary of Education and was responsible for the Office of Educational Research and Improvement in the U.S…

Bruno V. Manno is a Senior Advisor at the Progressive Policy Institute. He previously worked as Senior Advisor to the Walton Family Foundation's K-12 Education Reform Initiative and Senior Program Associate at the Annie E. Casey Foundation in Baltimore, Maryland.

Prior to his appointment with the Hudson Institute, Dr. Manno was Assistant Secretary of Education for Policy and Planning in the United States…