Why One National Curriculum is Bad for America
Closing the Door on Innovation
John Agresto
President, St. John’s College, Santa Fe, 1989-2000, Member Board of Trustees & Past Provost, American University of Iraq, Author, The Supreme Court & Constitutional Democracy
G. Donald Allen
Associate Head & Professor, Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University, Director, Center for Technology-Mediated Instruction in Mathematics
Hon. Steve Baldwin
Former Chairman, California State Assembly Education Committee, Former California State Assemblyman, Former Executive Director, Council for National Policy
Gary Beckner
Founder & Executive Director, Association of American Educators
Hon. Marian Bergeson
Former California State Secretary of Education, Former President, California School Boards Association, Former California State Senator
Michelle D. Bernard
President and CEO, the Bernard Center for Women, Politics, and Public Policy
Ben Boychuk
Former Managing Editor, School Reform News, Heartland Institute
Hon. Christian N. Braunlich
Vice President, Thomas Jefferson Institute, Former Member, Fairfax County (Va.) School Board
Matthew J. Brouillette
President & CEO, Commonwealth Foundation for Public Policy Alternatives, Former middle and high school history teacher, Former charter school board member
Morgan Brown
Director for School Improvement, Charter School Partners, Former Assistant Commissioner, Minnesota State Department of Education, U.S. Assistant Deputy Secretary of Education for Innovation and Improvement, 2006-2008
Audrey V. Buffington
Former State Supervisor of Mathematics, Maryland State Department of Education, First Recipient, Mathematics Educator of the Year Award, Maryland Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 1978
Doug Carnine
Former Director, National Center to Improve the Tools of Educators, Co-Author, Direct Instruction mathematics series, Former Member, Advisory Board, National Institute for Literacy
Michael C. Carnuccio
President, Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs
M. Bloucke Carus
Chairman, Carus Corporation, Chairman, Education Committee, Illinois Manufacturers’ Association, Publisher of 14 leading children’s magazines, Past Chairman, International Baccalaureate North America, Developer, Open Court reading program
Walt Chappell
Member, Kansas State Board of Education
John E. Chubb
Distinguished Visiting Fellow & Koret K-12 Education Task Force Member, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Former Chief Academic Officer & Co-Founder, Edison Learning, Co-Author, Politics, Markets, and America’s Schools
Paul Clopton
Research Statistician, U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs Medical Center, San Diego, Past Member, California State Mathematics Curriculum Framework and Criteria Committee, Past Commissioner, California State Commission on Teacher Credentialing
John Colyandro
Executive Director, Texas Conservative Coalition Research Institute
Kim Crockett
President & General Counsel, Minnesota Free Market Institute
David Davenport
Counselor to the Director & Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, President, Pepperdine University, 1985-2000, Past Distinguished Professor of Law & Public Policy, Pepperdine University
Timothy C. Draper
Founder & Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson (venture capital), Former Member, California State Board of Education
Brandon Dutcher
Vice President for Policy, Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, Publishing Editor, Choice Remarks
John C. Eastman
Founding Director, Claremont Institute Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, Donald P. Kennedy Professor and Former Dean, Chapman University School of Law
Michelle Easton
President, Clare Booth Luce Policy Institute
Former Deputy Undersecretary, U.S. Department of Education, Former President and Member Virginia, State Board of Education
Karen R. Effrem, MD
President, Education Liberty Watch
Robert S. Eitel
Member, Talbert and Eitel,PLLC, Deputy General Counsel, U.S. Department of Education, 2006-09, Senior Counsel, U.S. Department of Education, 2005-06
Siegfried Engelmann
Professor of Special Education, University of Oregon, Recipient, Award of Achievement in Education Research of the Council of Scientific Society Presidents, 2002, President Engelmann-Becker Corporation (curriculum development)
Robert C. Enlow
President & CEO, Foundation for Educational Choice
Richard A. Epstein
Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law, New York University Law School, Peter & Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law Emeritus & Senior Lecturer, University of Chicago Law School
William A. Estrada
Director of Federal Relations, Home School Legal Defense Association
Bill Evers
Research Fellow & Koret K-12 Education Task Force Member, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education for Policy, 2007-2009, Commissioner, California State Academic Standards Commission, 1996-98, 2010
William Felkner
Founder & Director of Policy, Ocean State Policy Research Institute
Liv Finne
Director for Education, Washington Policy Center
Will Fitzhugh
Founder & President, The Concord Review
Greg Forster
Senior Fellow, Foundation for Educational Choice
John Fonte
Senior Fellow & Director of the Center for American Common Culture, Hudson Institute
Jamie Gass
Director, Center for School Reform, Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research
Paul J. Gessing
President, Rio Grande Foundation
Ronald J. Gidwitz
Co-Founder & President, GCG Partners, Former CEO, Helene Curtis, Member, Board of Governors & Chairman of Governmental Relations Committee, Boys and Girls Club of America, Former Chairman, City Colleges of Chicago, Former Chairman, Illinois State Board of Education
Jay P. Greene
21st Century Chair & Head of the Department of Education Reform, University of Arkansas, Fellow in Education Policy, George W. Bush Institute
Walter Mellor Haney
Professor, Educational Research, Measurement and Evaluation Program, Lynch School of Education, Boston College
David R. Henderson
Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Former Senior Economist, President’s Council of Economic Advisers
Collin Hitt
Senior Director of Government Affairs, Illinois Policy Institute
Hon. Pete Hoekstra
Former Member, U.S. House of Representatives, Former Member, U.S. House Committee on Education and Workforce, Former Member, U.S. House Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education
Robert Holland
Senior Fellow for Education Policy, Heartland Institute, Policy Analyst, Lexington Institute
Gisele Huff
Member, Advisory Committee, Program on Education Policy and Governance, Harvard University
Lance T. Izumi
Koret Senior Fellow and Senior Director of Education Studies, Pacific Research Institute, Immediate Past President, Board of Governors, California Community Colleges
Franklin Pitcher Johnson, Jr.
Founding Partner, Asset Management Company, (venture capital), Former Member, Board of Trustees, Foothill-De Anza Community College District
Krista Kafer
Fellow, Centennial Institute
Kevin P. Kane
President, Pelican Institute for Public Policy
Hon. Greg Kaza
Member, Michigan State House of Representatives, 1993-98, Executive Director, Arkansas Policy Foundation
C. Ronald Kimberling
U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education for Postsecondary Education, 1985-88, Former Chancellor, Briarcliffe College, Member, Illinois Task Force on Higher Education and the Economy, 2008
Hon. Keith King
Co-Founder, Cheyenne Mountain Charter Academy; James Irwin Charter High School, Colorado Springs Early Colleges, Colorado State Senator, Member, Colorado State Senate Education Committee
Karen Klinzing
Former Deputy Commissioner, Minnesota Dept.
of Education; Former Member, Education Finance
Committee, Minnesota State House of Representatives,
Former Member, Education Policy & Reform
Committee, Minnesota State House of Representatives
E. Floyd Kvamme
Partner Emeritus, Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfield & Byers (venture capital), Past Executive Vice President, Apple Computer, Past Co-Chairman, President’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology
John R. LaPlante
Policy Fellow, Minnesota Free Market Institute
Hon. Yvonne W. Larsen
Past President, California State Board of Education, Past President, San Diego City School Board, Vice Chair, “A Nation at Risk” Commission
Casey Lartigue , Jr.
Director, Overseas Relations, Center for Free Enterprise (South Korea), Former Education Policy Analyst, Cato Institute, Co-editor, Educational Freedom in Urban America: Brown v. Board Education after a half century
Doug Lasken
Retired English Teacher & Debate Coach, Los Angeles Unified School District
Howard H. Leach
Vice President, Leach Capital, Former U.S. Ambassador to France, Former Chairman, Board of Regents, University of California
Briana LeClaire
Education Policy Analyst, Idaho Freedom Foundation
George Leef
Director of Research, John W. Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, Former Vice President, John Locke Foundation, Book Review Editor, The Freeman magazine
George W. Liebmann
Executive Director, Calvert Institute for Policy Research
Dan Lips
Former Senior Policy Analyst, Heritage Foundation, Former Research Associate, Cato Institute, Senior Fellow of Education Policy Studies, Maryland Public Policy Institute
Hon. Peggy Littleton
El Paso County Commissioner, Colorado, Former Member, Colorado State Board of Education
Carrie L. Lukas
Executive Director, Independent Women’s Forum, Former Policy Analyst, Cato Institute, Former Senior Domestic Policy Analyst, U.S. House Republican Policy Committee
Paul Lundeen
Member, Colorado State Board of Education
J. Robert McClure
President & CEO, James Madison Institute, Former Member, State of Florida Education Strategies Planning Council Member, Florida Committee for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
Michael W. McConnell
Richard and Frances Mallery Professor of Law, Stanford University, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Former Federal Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Kelly McCutchen
President and CEO, Georgia Public Policy Foundation
Michael McKeown
Professor of Medical Science, Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology & Biochemistry, Brown University, Co-Founder, Mathematically Correct (math-education advocacy group)
Matt A. Mayer
President, Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions
Edwin Meese III
Former Attorney General of the United States, Former Rector (chairman of governing board), George Mason University, Former Professor of Law, University of San Diego
John D. Merrifield
Professor of Economics, University of Texas, San Antonio, Editor, Journal of School Choice, Director, E.G. West Institute for Effective Schooling
Stan Metzenberg
Professor of Biology, California State University Northridge, Science Consultant, California State Academic Standards Commission, 1998, Former Commissioner, California State Curriculum Commission
R. James Milgram
Professor Emeritus, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University, Member, Validation Committee, Common Core Standards, 2009-10, Former Member, NASA Advisory Council
Charles Miller
Former Chairman, Education Policy Center of Texas, Former Chairman, Board of Regents, University of Texas System, Chairman, U.S. Secretary of Education’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education (Spellings Commission)
Marcia Neal
Vice-Chair, Colorado State Board of Education
Hon. Janet Nicholas
Former Member, California State Board of Education
Grover Norquist
President, Americans for Tax Reform, Member, Board of Directors, ParentalRights.org, Former Economist & Chief Speechwriter, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Daniel Oliver
Former General Counsel, U.S. Department of Education, Former General Counsel, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Former Chairman, Federal Trade Commission
Gen Olson
President, Pro Tem, Minnesota State Senate, Chair, Minnesota State Senate Education Committee
Chris Patterson
Former Director of Research, Texas Public Policy Foundation, Member, Policy Advisory Board, Texas Institute for Education Reform
John W. Payne
Education Policy Researcher, Show-Me Institute
Hon. Betty Peters
Member, Alabama State Board of Education
Sally C. Pipes
President & CEO Pacific Research Institute
Daniel P. Racheter
President, Iowa Association of Scholars, President, Public Interest Institute, Co-Editor, Federalist Government in Principle and Practice
Howard Rich
Chairman, Americans for Limited Government
Roberta R. Schaefer
President & CEO, Worcester (Mass.) Regional Research Bureau, Former Vice Chair & Member, Massachusetts State Board of Education
Hon. Bob Schaffer
Chairman, Colorado State Board of Education, Former Vice-Chairman, Colorado State Senate Education Committee, Member, U.S. House of Representatives, 1997-2003
Wilfried Schmid
Dwight Parker Robinson Professor of Mathematics, Harvard University, Member, National Mathematics Advisory Panel, U.S. Department o Education, 2006-08, Member, Steering Committee, NAEP Mathematics Assessment, 2000-01
Pete Sepp
Executive Vice President, National Taxpayers Union
Gilbert T. Sewall
Director, American Textbook Council
Former history instructor, Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., Former Education Editor, Newsweek magazine
Hon. John Shadegg
Member, U.S. House of Representatives, 1995-2010
Hon. Florence Shapiro
Chair, State Senate Education Committee, State of Texas, Member, Southern Regional Education Board, Commissioner, Education Commission of the States
Jane S. Shaw
President, John W. Pope Center for Higher Education Policy
John Silber
Dean, College of Arts & Sciences, University of Texas, 1967-70, President, Boston University, 1971-96, Chairman, Massachusetts State Board of Education, 1996-99
Eunie Smith
(widow of Congressman Albert Lee Smith, Jr.), President, Eagle Forum of Alabama
Lisa Snell
Director of Education & Child Welfare, Reason Foundation
Don Soifer
Executive Vice President, Lexington Institute, Member, Public Charter School Board, District of Columbia
Joel Spring
Professor, Department of Elementary & Early Childhood Education, Queens College & Graduate Center, City University of New York
Shelby Steele
Robert J. & Marion E. Oster Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Author, The Content of Our Character
James Stergios
Executive Director, Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research
Terry L. Stoops
Director of Education Studies, John Locke Foundation
Sandra Stotsky
21st Century Chair in Teacher Quality, Department of Education Reform, University of Arkansas, Senior Associate Commissioner of Education, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1999-2003, Member, Validation Committee, Common Core Standards, 2009-10
Christopher B. Summers
President, Maryland Public Policy Institute
Robert W. Sweet, Jr.
Former Acting Director & Deputy Director, National Institute for Education, Former Reagan White House Policy Staffer, Former Senior Staffer, U.S. House Committee on Education & the Workforce
Kent D. Talbert
Partner, Talbert & Eitel, PLLC, General Counsel, U.S. Department of Education, 2006-09, Former Education Policy Counsel, U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce
Peter Thiel
President Clarium Capital (hedge fund), Managing Partner, The Founders Fund (venture capital), Founder, Former CEO & Former Chairman, PayPal
Abigail Thernstrom
Adjunct Scholar, American Enterprise Institute, Member, Massachusetts State Board of Education, 1995-2006, Vice Chair, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
Stephen Thernstrom
Winthrop Research Professor of History, Harvard University, Co-Author (with Abigail Thernstrom), No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning.
Jeremy Thompson
Executive Director, Alaska Policy Forum
Lil Tuttle
Education Director, Clare Booth Luce Policy Institute, Former Vice President and Member, Virginia State Board of Education
Richard Vedder
Adjunct Scholar, American Enterprise Institute, Distinguished Professor of Economics, Ohio University, Commissioner, U.S. Secretary of Education’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education (Spellings Commission)
Herbert J. Walberg
Distinguished Visiting Fellow & Koret K-12 Education Task Force Member, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, University Scholar, University of Illinois at Chicago, Former Member, National Board for Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education
Hon. Pete Wilson
Former Governor, State of California
Jim Windham
Chairman, Texas Institute for Education Reform
Ze’ev Wurman
Senior Policy Adviser, U.S. Department of Education, 2007-2009, Commissioner, California State Academic Commission, 2010, Past Member, California State Mathematics Curriculum Framework and Criteria Committee
Hon. Kimberly Yee
Member, Arizona State House Representatives, VIce Chairman, Arizona House Education Committee
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Hamline University
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Associate Professor of Economics
Frostburg State University
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Professor Emeritus and Dean
School of Professional Studies
Central Washington University
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Retired, Family and Consumer Studies Teacher
Ellensburg High School
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Administrator
San Francisco Christian School
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High School Teacher
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Professor
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University of Alabama
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Former Member
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Alabama State Board of Education
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Director, Education Policy Center
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Teacher
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Independence Institute
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Research Associate, Education Policy Center
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Retired Teacher
Washington State State Board of Education
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High School Math Teacher
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Brevard Co. School Board
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Larry Floyd
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Seminole State College
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Robert P. George
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Baylor University
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Special Education Teacher
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Director of Education Policy
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Teacher
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Secondary Teacher
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Jackson Hospital and Clinic, Inc.
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New Jersey Homeschool Association
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Conservative Teachers of America
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President
Alabama Policy Institute
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UAB
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Institute on the Constitution
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Georgia
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Children’s Advocate and Education Author
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Kelley L. Ross, Ph.D.
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Proceedings of the Friesian School
Robert Ross
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James Rugg
Founder
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Stephen Shmanske
Professor Emeritus
California State University, East Bay
John Shuey
Former Teacher
Claymont, DE Public Schools
David Silbernagel
Retired Supervisor
Teamster Member
Dana Slabaugh
Teacher
USU
Andrew Smith
Teacher
New Palestine High School
Gordon Smith
Engineer
Libertarian
Jacquetta Smith
School Nurse
Texas School Nurse Organization
Buffy Snell
Mother, Family of 7
Elsie Sommerfeld
Former School Board Member
Jeremy Spencer, Ed.S.
High School Science Teacher
Camden Schools
Paul Stackpole, Sr.
Former Educator
Marilyn Steffen
Parent
Separation of School and State
J.E. Stone
President, Education Consumers Foundation
Cathy Stovall
Second Grade Teacher
Association of American Educators
Kathy Strand
Parent
Jim Summerville
State Senator
Tennessee General Assembly
Barbara Susco
Former Teacher
Florida Eagle Forum
Dora Taylor
Educator
Parents Across America
Ms. Susan Taylor
Retired
Clint Thatcher
Retired Air Force Officer and Math Teacher
United States Air Force and
Spokane Falls Community College
Tom Thisteton
Founder
Mars Hill Academy
Donya Thomas
Concerned Parent
Graduate of the Mississippi School
for Math and Science
Paula Thomason
Former Homeschooling, Mother of Six, Realtor
Prudential Fox & Roach
C. Bradley Thompson
Department of Political Science
Clemson University
Scott Thomson
Professor of Medicine
University of California
Jerry Treadway
Professor Emeritus, College of Education
San Diego State University
Commissioner, California State Academic Standards
Commission, 1996-98
Former Chair, California State Curriculum Commission
Mrs. Laura Troidle
NYCHOLD
Larry Trone
Founder
Think Algebra
Greg Twietmeyer
Assistant Professor
Marshall University
David Upham
Father of Five
Assistant Professor of Politics
University of Dallas
Liliana Vaananen
Education Consultant
Private Consulting
John Vernick
Engineer Retired
BSEE/MSAS, Montana State University
The Boeing Company
Bethany Ward
Public School Teacher
Maine Education
Brandon Ward
Teacher
Middle School, Maine
David T. Webb
Retired Professor
University of Hawaii
Charles Weber
Private Citizen
Mr. and Mrs. Paul and Molly Wehrenberg
Private Citizens
Robert Wehrle
Former School Board Member
Stafford County, Virginia
Lucy Wells
CURE
Stephanie Wentzlaff
Former Teacher
Lutheran Schools of America
Jenni White
President
Restore Oklahoma Public Education (ROPE)
David Whitmer
Technology Director
Calvary Schools of Holland
Michael Wilder
Manager
Delphi
Sharon Wilder
Certified Teacher
Spokane School District
J.R. Wilson
Former Elementary Teacher, Curriculum Consultant
Staff Development Coordinator, and Principal
Kay Wilson
Mother, Grandmother
Mother of School Board Member
Alpine School District
Conservative
Janet Workman
Parent
Debra Yates
Private Citizen
Robin York
Parent
Arizona Bar Association
Jennifer Zapata
Parent
