Danielle Allen, Director, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University
Paul Almeida, president, AFL-CIO Department for Professional Employees
Anthony Bryk, president, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
Carolyn J. (Cali) Cole, Chairman and Founder, the Cole Group and the Institute of Economics and Finance
Han Dongfang, founder and executive director, China Labour Bulletin
Sara Goldrick-Rab, professor, educational policy studies and sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ernest G. Green, co-chairman and partner, Madison Asset Managment Group, LLC; member, "Little Rock Nine"
Sarita Gupta, executive director, Jobs with Justice
Linda Darling Hammond, Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education, Stanford University; founder, Stanford Educational Leadership Institute and the School Redesign Network.
Andy Hargreaves, Thomas More Brennan Chair, Lynch School of Education, Boston College
E. D. Hirsch Jr., professor emeritus, education and humanities, University of Virginia; founder, Core Knowledge Foundation
John Jackson, president and CEO, The Schott Foundation for Public Education
Clifford B. Janey, senior research scholar, Boston University School of Education
Lorretta Johnson, secretary treasurer, American Federation of Teachers
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, senior fellow, The Century Foundation
Ted Kirsch, president, AFT Pennsylvania
Carrie Leana, George H. Love Professor of Organizations and Management, University of Pittsburgh
Stanley S. Litow, vice president of coroporate community relations. IBM; president, IBM International Foundation
Michael Maccoby, president, The Maccoby Group
Herb Magidson, former vice president, American Federation of Teachers
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, Distinguished Professor of Education in the Graduate School of Education and Information Sciences, UCLA
Mary Cathryn Ricker, executive vice president, American Federation of Teachers
Richard Riley, former Governor, South Carolina; former secretary of education, Clinton Administration
William H. Schmidt, university distinguished professor, Michigan State University
Randi Weingarten, president, American Federation of Teachers
Deborah L. Wince-Smith, president, Council on Competitiveness