About the Authors

J. Myron Atkin is Professor of Education at Stanford University.

Richard C. Atkinson is President of the University of California.

John Brademas is President Emeritus of New York University and Chairman of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities.

Richard A. Donovan is Director of the National Center for Urban Partnerships.

Russell Edgerton is Director of Education Programs at the Pew Charitable Trusts.

Eugene E. García is Dean of the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley.

Manuel N. Gómez is Vice Chancellor of Student Services at the University of California, Irvine.

Peter N. Herndon teaches history at Cooperative Arts High School in New Haven.

Gene I. Maeroff is Director of the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Robert Polkinghorn, Jr. Is Executive Director, University-School Partnerships at the University of California.

John Carlos Rowe is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine.

Laura Stokes is a graduate student in education at Stanford University, School of Education.

Jean Sutherland teaches third grade at L. W. Beecher Elementary School in New Haven.

Gerald N. Tirozzi is Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education in the U.S. Department of Education.

David L. Warren is President of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities.

Arnold Weinstein is Edna and Richard Salomon Distinguished Professor and Professor of Comparative Literature at Brown University.