Original Signatories*
Marilyn Jager Adams
Research Professor, Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences Department, Brown University
Clifford Adelman
Senior Associate, Institute for Higher Education Policy; Former Senior Research Analyst, U.S. Department of Education
Paul E. Almeida
President, Department for Professional Employees, AFL-CIO
Andrés A. Alonso
Chief Executive Officer, Baltimore City Public Schools
Richard A. Askey
Emeritus Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Norman Augustine
Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Lockheed Martin Corporation
Deborah Loewenberg Ball
Dean, William H. Payne Collegiate Professor, and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, School of Education, University of Michigan
Paul Barton
Education Writer and Consultant; Former Director of the ETS Policy Information Center
Linda Bevilacqua
President, Core Knowledge Foundation
Barbara T. Bowman
Chief Officer, Office of Early Childhood Education, Chicago Public Schools
Mary Brabeck
Dean, NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
Barbara Byrd-Bennett
Chief Academic and Accountability Auditor, Detroit Public Schools
Karin Chenoweth
Author, How It’s Being Done: Urgent Lessons from Unexpected Schools
David K. Cohen
John Dewey Collegiate Professor of Education, University of Michigan
James P. Comer, M.D.
Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry, Yale Child Study Center, Associate Dean, Yale School of Medicine
Antonia Cortese
Secretary-Treasurer, American Federation of Teachers
Linda Darling-Hammond
Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education, Stanford University
Thomas Donahue
Chairman, Committee for Free Trade Unionism; President Emeritus, AFL-CIO
Bob Edwards
Host, Sirius XM Radio; National First Vice President, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
M. Joycelyn Elders, MD
15th U.S. Surgeon General
Michael B. Fabricant
Executive Officer, PhD Program in Social Welfare, Hunter College, City University of New York; Treasurer, Professional Staff Congress
Representative Chaka Fattah
U.S. House of Representatives, PA
Chester E. Finn, Jr.
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University; President, Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Susan Fuhrman
President, Teachers College; President, National Academy of Education
Curtis Gans
Director, Center for the Study of the American Electorate
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
Former CEO of IBM; Chairman, The Teaching Commission
Bernard R. Gifford
Professor, Division of Education in Mathematics, Science, Technology, and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley; Former Deputy Chancellor, New York City Board of Education
Milton Goldberg
Former Executive Director, National Commission on Excellence in Education, Issued A Nation at Risk
Ernest Green
Co-Chairman, Madison Global Group LLC
Joy Hakim
Author, A History of US, Oxford University Press; The Story of Science, Smithsonian Books with the NSTA; and “Freedom: A History of US,” Public Broadcasting Service
Beverly L. Hall
Superintendent, Atlanta Public Schools
Kati Haycock
President, Education Trust
E.D. Hirsch, Jr.
Founder and Chairman, Core Knowledge Foundation
J.D. Hoye
President, National Academy Foundation
Sol Hurwitz
President Emeritus, Committee for Economic Development
Clifford Janey
Former Superintendent, Newark, NJ, Washington, DC, and Rochester, NY
Christopher Jencks
Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Lorretta Johnson
Executive Vice President, American Federation of Teachers
Susan Moore Johnson
Jerome T. Murphy Professor in Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Richard D. Kahlenberg
Senior Fellow, Century Foundation
Thomas H. Kean
Chairman, THK Consulting; Former Governor of New Jersey
Mary M. Kennedy
Professor, Department of Teacher Education, Michigan State University
Ted Kirsch
President, AFT Pennsylvania; Vice President, American Federation of Teachers
Charles E. M. Kolb
President, Committee for Economic Development
Julia Koppich
President, J. Koppich and Associates
Michael H. Levine
Executive Director, Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop
Stanley S. Litow
Vice President, Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs, IBM; President, IBM International Foundation
Michael Maccoby
President, Maccoby Group
Gene Maeroff
Author, School Boards in America
Herb Magidson
Former Vice President, American Federation of Teachers
Ray Marshall
Professor Emeritus, Audre and Bernard Rapoport Centennial Chair in Economics and Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin
Edward McElroy
President Emeritus, American Federation of Teachers
Daniel J. Montgomery
President, Illinois Federation of Teachers>/p>
Fritz Mosher
Education Research Consultant, Consortium for Policy Research in Education
Susan B. Neuman
Professor, School of Education, University of Michigan; Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Elementary and Secondary Education
Pedro Noguera
Peter L. Agnew Professor of Education, New York University
Thomas Payzant
Professor of Practice, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Former Superintendent, Boston Public Schools
Stephanie Powers
Former Director, National School-to-Work Office, U.S. Departments of Labor and Education
Wendy Puriefoy
President, Public Education Network
Stephen W. Raudenbush
Lewis-Sebring Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Sociology, and Chair, Committee on Education, University of Chicago
Richard W. Riley
Former U.S. Secretary of Education
Barak Rosenshine
Emeritus Professor of Educational Psychology, College of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
William Scheuerman
Professor, Political Science, State University of New York, Oswego; Former President, United University Professions
William Schmidt
University Distinguished Professor, Michigan State University
Mike Schmoker
Education Author, Speaker, and Consultant
Robert Schwartz
Francis Keppel Professor of Practice of Educational Policy and Administration Academic Dean, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Diana Senechal
Writer and Teacher
Donna E. Shalala
President of the University of Miami; Former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services
Marshall (Mike) Smith
Visiting Scholar, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; Former Under Secretary of Education; Former Senior Counselor to Secretary Duncan
James W. Stigler
Professor, Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles
Philip Uri Treisman
Director, Charles A. Dana Center; Professor, Mathematics and Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin
Marc S. Tucker
President, National Center on Education and the Economy
Michael D. Usdan
Senior Fellow, Institute for Educational Leadership
Kate Walsh
President, National Council on Teacher Quality
Randi Weingarten
President, American Federation of Teachers
Ross Wiener
Executive Director, Education & Society Program The Aspen Institute
Amy Wilkins
Vice President for Government Affairs and Communications, Education Trust
Suzanne M. Wilson
University Distinguished Professor; Chair, Department of Teacher Education, Michigan State University
William Julius Wilson
Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor, Harvard University
Deborah Wince-Smith
President and CEO, Council on Competitiveness
Hung-Hsi Wu
Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
*Signatories are being added daily. Titles and organizations of all signatories appear for identification purposes only.
**Additional signatories after March 7, 2011 release.