Danielle Allen, director, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University

Travis Bristol, assistant professor, University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Education; chair, board of directors, National Board for Profressional Teaching Standards.

Kate Bronfenbrenner, director, Labor Education Research, ILR, Cornell University

Anthony Bryk, former president, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; Senior Fellow for Network Development and Field Building, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

Zeph Capo, president, Houston Federation of Teachers; AFT Vice President; public school science teacher

Leo Casey, executive director emeritus, Albert Shanker Institute; assistant to the president, American Federation of Teachers

Larry Cohen, former president, Communication Workers of America

Carolyn J. (Cali) Cole, chairman and founder, the Cole Group and the Institute of Economics and Finance

Evelyn DeJesus, executive vice president, American Federation of Teachers

Han Dongfang, founder and executive director, China Labour Bulletin

Ernest G. Green, co-chairman and partner, Madison Asset Management Group, LLC; member, "Little Rock Nine"

Linda Darling Hammond, president, California State Board of Education; Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education, Stanford University; founder, Stanford Educational Leadership Institute and the School Redesign Network.

Andy Hargreaves, director, CHENINE Collaboratory on Change, Engagement and Innovation at the University of Ottawa; research professor, Boston College.

Sara Horowitz, founder and former Executive Director, Freelancers Union

Fedrick C. Ingram, secretary-treasurer, American Federation of Teachers and Albert Shanker Institute

John Jackson, president and CEO, The Schott Foundation for Public Education

Susan Moore Johnson, director and principal investigator, Project on the Next Generarion of Teachers; Jerome T. Murphy Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Richard Kahlenberg, director, American Identity Project, Progressive Policy Institute

Carrie Leana, George H. Love Professor of Organizations and Management, University of Pittsburgh

Stanley S. Litow, professor, Columbia University; vice president emeritus, IBM's Global Corporate Citizenship Program; president emeritus, IBM International Foundation

Herb Magidson, former vice president, American Federation of Teachers

Joseph A McCartin, professor and executive director, Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor, Georgetown University

Harold Meyerson, executive editor, American Prospect

Daniel Montgomery, president, Illinois Federation of Teachers; vice president, American Federation of Teachers

Susan B. Neuman, professor of childhood and early literacy, New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Developmenl

Pedro Noguera, Dean of the Rossier School of Education, and Distinguished Professor of Education at USC.

William H. Schmidt, university distinguished professor, Michigan State University

Elizabeth "Liz" H. Shuler, president, AFL-CIO

Jessica J. Tang, president, Boston Teachers Union.

Randi Weingarten, president, American Federation of Teachers and Albert Shanker Institute