Board of Directors and Advisory Commissioners

Board of Directors

Richard W. Riley
Co-Chair, National Commission on Teaching and America's Future
Partner, Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP
Former U.S. Secretary of Education
Former Governor, South Carolina

Ted Sanders
Co-Chair, National Commission on Teaching and America's Future
Retired President, Education Commission of the States

Linda Darling-Hammond
Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Teaching and Teacher Education, Stanford University

Jane Fung

Teacher, Los Angeles Unified School District

Mark Musick
Retired, President Emeritus, SREB

Marjorie Scardino
Chief Executive, Pearson plc

Robert L. Wehling
Senior Advisor, James B. Hunt, Jr. Institute for Educational Leadership and Policy

Advisory Commissioners

Thomas G. Carroll
President, National Commission on Teaching and America's Future

Joseph A. Aguerrebere
President, National Board for Professional Teaching Standards

Anthony Alvarado
Chancellor, San Diego City Schools, California

Anne L. Bryant
Executive Director, National School Boards Association

Betty Castor
Former National Education Director, MGT of America Inc.

Ivanelle Chan
Special Education Teacher, Garfield Elementary School, Olympia, Washington

Robert F. Chase
Past President, National Education Association

James P. Comer
Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry, Yale Child Study Center
Associate Dean, Yale University School of Medicine

Angela Covert
Independent Consultant
Former Senior Program Officer, Atlantic Philanthropies

Sharon M. Draper
Author & Educator
National Board Certified Teacher
1997 National Teacher of the Year

Mary Hatwood Futrell
Dean, Graduate School of Education and Human Development, George Washington University

James E. Geringer
Former Governor, State of Wyoming

Christine Gutierrez
Teacher-Scholar and Peace Educator, Los Angeles, California

James C. Hammond
Chairman, Idaho Public Charter School Commission, Idaho State Board of Education

James M. Jeffords
Senator, State of Vermont

Roberts T. Jones
President, Education & Workforce, LLC
Former CEO of the National Alliance of Business

Kathy Klock
Independent Consultant
Former Program Officer, Gates Foundation

Damon Moore
Science Teacher, Richmond, Indiana

John P. Morgridge
Chairman of the Board, Cisco Systems

Diana S. Natalicio
President, University of Texas at El Paso

Richard L. Schwab
Dean, Neag School of Education, University of Connecticut

Lynn F. Stuart
Chairperson, Teachers21, Boston, Massachusetts

Reg Weaver
President, National Education Association

Chad P. Wick
President and CEO, KnowledgeWorks Foundation

Arthur E. Wise
President, National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education

James B. Hunt, Jr
Commissioner Emeritus
Chairman, James B. Hunt, Jr. Institute for Educational Leadership and Policy
Former Governor, State of North Carolina

Past Commission Members

Richard Arrington
Former Mayor, Birmingham, Alabama

David L. Boren
President, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

Craig Chapman
President, Specialty Finance, Washington Mutual

Ernesto Cortes Jr.
Southwest Regional Director, Industrial Areas Foundation, Austin, TX

Ramon Cortines
Former Chancellor, New York City Public Schools

William G. Demmert Jr.
Professor, Woodring College of Education, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA

Jim Edgar
Former Governor, State of Illinois

Dolores A. Escobar
Dean Emerita, College of Education, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA

Sandra Feldman (deceased)
Former President, American Federation of Teachers

Norman C. Francis
President, Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA

Keith Geiger
Former President, National Education Association, Washington, DC

James A. Kelly
Founding President, National Board for Professional Teaching Standards

Tom Luce
CEO, National Math and Science Initiative

Former Assistant Secretary, Office of Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development, U.S. Department of Education

Juanita Millender-McDonald (deceased)
Congresswoman, State of California

Lynne Miller
Professor of Education Administration and Leadership, University of Southern Maine, Gorham, ME

Annette N. Morgan
Former Representative, District 39, Missouri House of Representatives

J. Richard Munro
Retired Chairman and CEO, Time Warner Inc., New York, NY

Hugh Price
Former President and Chief Executive Officer, National Urban League

Howard P. Rawlings (deceased)
Delegate, 40th Legislative District, Baltimore, Maryland

David Rockefeller Jr.
Chairman, Rockefeller Financial Services, New York, NY

Albert Shanker (deceased)
President, American Federation of Teachers

Richard Wisniewski
Former Director, Institute for Educational Innovation, University of Tennessee