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1. E. D. Hirsch Jr.

   Author of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know, The Schools We Need: And Why We Don't Have Them, The Knowledge Deficit: Closing the Shocking Education Gap for American Children

2. David Tyack

   Author of Tinkering toward Utopia: A Century of Public School Reform, The One Best System: A History of American Urban Education, Managers Of Virtue: Public School Leadership In America, 1820-1980

3. Theodore R. Sizer

   Author of Horace's Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School, Horace's School: Redesigning the American High School, The Red Pencil: Convictions from Experience in Education

4. Deborah Meier

   Author of The Power of Their Ideas: Lessons for America from a Small School in Harlem, Many Children Left Behind: How the No Child Left Behind Act Is Damaging Our Children and Our Schools, In Schools We Trust: Creating Communities of Learning in an Era of Testing and Standardization

5. Judy Willis

   Author of Research-Based Strategies to Ignite Student Learning: Insights from a Neurologist and Classroom Teacher, Brain-Friendly Strategies for the Inclusion Classroom

6. Barbara Ehrenreich

   Author of Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream, Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

7. Kenneth C. Davis

   Author of Don't Know Much About History, Don't Know Much About Geography: Everything You Need to Know About the World but Never Learned

8. Ellen Condliffe Lagemann

   Author of An Elusive Science: The Troubling History of Education Research, The Politics of Knowledge: The Carnegie Corporation, Philanthropy, and Public Policy

9. Mortimer J. Adler

   Author of Ten Philosophical Mistakes, Paideia Proposal, Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind

10. John Arthur Garraty

    Author of The Reader's Companion to American History, 1001 Things Everyone Should Know About American History

11. James W. Loewen

    Author of Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong, Teaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks & Get Students Excited About Doing History

12. Thomas Sowell

    Author of The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation As a Basis for Social Policy, Inside American Education

13. Charles J. Sykes

    Author of Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can't Read, Write, or Add,

14. Gary Rivlin

    Author of Broke, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc. - How the Working Poor Became Big Business

15. Charlotte Danielson

    Author of Enhancing Professional Practice: A Framework for Teaching, Teacher Leadership That Strengthens Professional Practice

16. Neil Postman

    Author of Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology, The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School

17. Jacques Barzun

    Author of From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, Darwin, Marx, Wagner: Critique of a Heritage, Begin Here: The Forgotten Conditions of Teaching and Learning

18. Tom Bissell

    Author of Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter

19. W. James Popham

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

20. Michael Specter

    Author of Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives