MARC TUCKER is the founder, president and chief executive officer of the National Center on Education and the Economy.
Mr. Tucker has served on the National Skill Standards Board and chaired its research and policy committee. He also served as Associate Director of the National Institute of Education.
Mr. Tucker has authored several books and many articles and newspaper opinion pieces and testified extensively to legislatures.
Together with former Secretary of Labor Ray Marshall, Tucker wrote Thinking for a Living: Education and the Wealth of Nations, which won the Sidney Hillman prize and was named by Business Week as one of its Ten Best Books of 1992.
ARTHUR LEVINE is the sixth president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. Before his appointment at Woodrow Wilson, he was president and professor of education at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Dr. Levine is the author of dozens of articles and reviews. His most recent book is
When Hope and Fear Collide: A Portrait of Today's College Student (with Jeanette S. Cureton). Dr. Levine's opinion editorials appear in such publications as
The New York Times; The Los Angeles Times; The Wall Street Journal; The Washington Post; The Chronicle of Higher Education; and
Education Week.
Dr. Levine has received numerous honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Carnegie Fellowship, as well as the American Council on Education's "Book of the Year" award (for Reform of Undergraduate Education).
GOVERNOR JANET NAPOLITANO is Arizona's 21st governor. She was originally elected in 2002, and re-elected in 2006.
Governor Napolitano recently concluded her term as the first woman and first Arizonan chosen to chair the National Governors Association.
Prior to her election as Governor, she served as U.S. Attorney for Arizona and as Arizona's first female Attorney General.
Since taking office, education has been one of Governor Napolitano's top priorities.
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