Wendy Kopp

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1. Donna Foote

   Author of Relentless Pursuit: A Year in the Trenches with Teach for America

2. Wendy Kopp

   Author of One Day, All Children: The Unlikely Triumph of Teach for America and What I Learned Along the Way, A Chance to Make History: What Works and What Doesn't in Providing an Excellent Education for All

3. Alfie Kohn

   Author of The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and "Tougher Standards", Beyond Discipline: From Compliance to Community

4. Karin Chenoweth

   Author of "It's Being Done": Academic Success in Unexpected Schools

5. Samuel Casey Carter

   Author of No Excuses : Lessons from 21 High-Performing, High-Poverty Schools

6. Thomas J. Sergiovanni

   Author of Building Community in Schools (Jossey Bass Education Series)

7. Jan Goldberg

   Author of Great Jobs for Music Majors (Great Jobs Series)

8. Marjorie Eberts

   Author of Careers for Good Samaritans & Other Humanitarian Types (Careers for You Series) (Vol 2)

9. Roger S. Pankratz

   Author of All Children Can Learn: Lessons from the Kentucky Reform Experience

10. Claudia Goldin

    Author of The Race between Education and Technology

11. Theodore R. Sizer

    Author of Horace's School: Redesigning the American High School

12. Peter Sacks

    Author of Standardized Minds: The High Price of America's Testing Culture and What We Can Do to Change It

13. David F. Labaree

    Author of The Trouble with Ed Schools

14. Jonathan Kozol

    Author of Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope

15. Leon Botstein

    Author of Jefferson's Children

16. Edward Fiske

    Author of Smart Schools, Smart Kids: Why Do Some Schools Work?

17. W. James Popham

    Author of The Truth About Testing: An Educator's Call to Action

18. Howard Gardner

    Author of Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet

19. James Wm. Noll

    Author of Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Educational Issues

20. E. D. Hirsch Jr.

    Author of The Schools We Need: And Why We Don't Have Them