
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
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
Carolee Adams
President
Eagle Forum of New Jersey
Lindsay Adams
College Student
Carl Anderson
Technology Integration Specialist, Adjunct Instructor
and Teacher
East Metro Integration District 6067, Hamline University
and Minnesota Connections Academy
Linda Anderson
Parent and Grandparent
Advocate for Education and Youth
William L. Anderson
Associate Professor of Economics
Frostburg State University
Adjunct Scholar, Mackinac Center for Public Policy
Jimmie R. Applegate
Professor Emeritus and Dean
School of Professional Studies
Central Washington University
Sabine Applegate
Retired, Family and Consumer Studies Teacher
Ellensburg High School
Mark Asire
Administrator
San Francisco Christian School
Frank Baker
Consultant
Media Literacy Clearinghouse Inc
Ann Marie Banfield
Education Liason
Cornerstone Action
Betsy Barber Bancroft
Author, Free Lance Editor
Pellican Publishing Company
Paul Bartomioli
Boy Scout Leader
Parent of 6 Children
David Beito
Professor
Department of History
University of Alabama
Rae Belisle
Former Member, California State Board of Education
Pamela Benigno
Director, Education Policy Center
Independence Institute
Neal Bishop
Father of three
Concerned Citizen
Brian Boltz
Owner
PFRMS
Edd Borngesser
Retired Sales Manager
NFPA
Mr. John Boullion
Lawrence Braden
Retired Advanced Placement Teacher
St. Paul’s School
Caleb Brandon
Sally Brooker
Teacher
Orono School System
Kasey Brzycki
Teacher
Co-editor Missouri Education Watchdog
Steve Buckstein
Founder
Cascade Policy Institute
Henry Buding
Student
Michael Buhler
President
Old Dominion Box Company, Inc.
Mr. Douglas Byrne
Mrs. Dorothy Byrne
Karlene Carper
RN, DON, Concerned Parent
Linda Carroll
Co-Founder
Cheyenne Mountain Charter Academy
Colorado Springs Charter Academy
Educational Consultant
President of Eternal Investments, LLC
Paul Cassady
Engineering Technician
NICET
Albert Cheng
Graduate Student, Education Policy
Biola University
Mrs. Suzanne Chiodo
Student-at-Law
University of Western Ontario
Linda Chipparoni
Private Citizen
James Christiansen
Mortgage Baker
Security Home Mortgage
James Cooke
School Committee Member
Tantasqua
David Cox
Teacher and Former Utah State Legislator
Laina Curtiss
Former Teacher
Bob Dean
Math Department Chair
State Board of Education Math Advisory Panel
OSPI Standards Revision Team
Where’s the Math Executive Committee
Evergreen High School
Deborach DeBacker
Ninth District Republican Committee
Former State Committeewoman
Michigan Republican Paty
Beth Decker
Teacher/Parent and Curriculum Author
Get Real! Learning
Hon. and Mrs. Paul Deis, Esq III
Former ITT Instructor
Life Member Vietnam Veterans of America
Ben DeGrow
Senior Education Policy Analyst
Independence Institute
Marya DeGrow
Research Associate, Education Policy Center
Independence Institute
Anthony DiCarlo
High School Math Teacher
Carolina High School, Greenville, SC
John Downing
Clinical Professor
Vanderbilt School of Medicine
Larry Dozier
Retired Teacher
Edie Eastman
Reading Teacher
Waubesa Intermediate School, McFarland, WI
John Eidsmoe
Professor
Sandy Elliot
School Director
WSSDA
Suz Elman
U.S. Citizen
Paul Feifert
Engineer
Prudence Fields
Activist-Public Policy
Eagle Forum
Joyce Fiess
Former Teacher
BI/NK Independent Homeschool Families
Kenneth Fleischer
Freelance Writer
Beatrice Fowler
Retired School Board Member
Brevard Co. School Board
Larry Floyd
Adjunct Instructor
Seminole State College
Emilie Fogle
Homeschool Parent
Danna Foreman
Home Education
Wood Island Academy
Arthur Freeman
Parent, Grandparent
Stella Gamma
Nurse and Parent
Carlo Gammaitoni
Doctor and Parent
Barry Garelick
Future Teacher
U.S. Coalition for World Class Math
Donna Garner
Retired Classroom Teacher and Activist
Anne E. Levin Garrison
Public School Advocate, Writer
Robert P. George
McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence
Director of the James Madison Program in American
Ideals and Institutions
Princeton University
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
former member US Commission on Civil Rights
former member of the President’s Council on Bioethics
Elizabeth Gibbons
Mother of 5
Craig Gorsuch
U.S. Citizen
Lynn Habluetzel
Board Member
Restore Oklahoma Public Education (ROPE)
Mrs. Marcy Hagge
Eric Harris
Former Substitute Teacher
Libertarian
Maureen Harris
Teaching Assistant
University of Connecticut
Joe Haugestuen
Lutheran Pastor, Retired
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Gerald Heiderscheit
Career Education and Training Officer
Lt. Col, USAF (Ret.)
Geoffrey Henebrey
Professor
South Dakota State University
James Hicks
Retired Educator and Administrator
Winston-Salem Forsyth County Schools
Forsyth Technical Community College, NC
Douglas Holtz-Eakin
President American Action Forum
Former Director, Congressional Budget Office
Former Director of Domestic
and Economic Policy, McCain-Palin 2008
Arthur Hotchkiss
Technical Instructor
Udelhoven Oilfield Services
Annie Hsiao
Director of Education Policy
American Action Forum
Marian Hudock
Mother who has homeschooled 4 different children,
none of whom did well with the same program
Aubrie Huggard
Mother of 4 Children
Alpine, Utah School District
Kendall Hunt
Former University Administrator
Jacksonville University
Michael Jacques
Med Tech
John Jacob
President
Modern Image Systems, Inc.
Kelly Janssen
Homeschool Teacher
S. Matthew Jone
Civil Engineer
ASCE
David Jones
Board Member
Education Liberty Watch
Tom Kerr
U.S. Navy
Retired/Former Teacher
Promotional Advertising
Shirley Koehn
Retired Teacher
Martin Kozloff
Watson Distinguished Professor
School of Education
University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Julie Koontz
Former Elementary Teacher
Columbia Public Schools, Columbia Missouri
Christine Laffler
Former Teacher
Lutheran Schools of America
Nicholas Laviola
Public University Staff
UC Santa Barbara
Tim Lebsack
Texan
Albert Lee
Jack Leishear
Private Citizen
Gretchen Logue
Editor
Missouri Education Watchdog
Richard Lorenc
Cofounder
Social Movement Sciences LLC
Victoria Manduca
Sales Director
Union County Tea Party
Conard Mangrum
Director
Lau Financial Services
Marian Matthews
Former teacher and mother of 2 college graduates
CWA
Ria Mattingly
Student
Sandhills Community College
Mrs. Ruth Maxfield
Private Citizen
Ryan McCarl
Writer and History Teacher
Wide Awake Minds
Barbara McCarthy
Concerned Parent
John McClaughry
President, Ethan Allen Institute (retired)
Former Senior Policy Advisor in the
White House Office of Policy Development
Former Vice Chair, Vermont Senate Education Committee
Amy McClean
Teacher
McClean Academy
Jerry McConnell
Baker Mitchell
Trustee
The Roger Bacon Academy
Barbara Moore
Civics/History Teacher
Northside Methodist Academy
Russ Moore
Founder and CEO
Seamless Education Associates, Inc
Richard Morgan
Col USAF, retired
Adjunct Lecturer
Western Ct State University
Jake Mousel
Substitute Teacher
Lincoln Public Schools
Susie Mullins
Homemaker
William Mumma
CEO
Mitsubishi UFJ Securities, USA
New Hampshire Cornerstone Action
Kathy Nichols
Private Citizen
Oak Norton
Parent Advocate
Utah’s Republic
Arlen Nydam
Self-Employed
Thomas Oliver
Student
Samford University
Hope Page
Winery Owner
Page Wine Cellars
Andrew Palmer
Teacher
Conservative Teachers of America
Gary Palmer
President
Alabama Policy Institute
F. Wayne Pate
Former Visiting Executive
UAB
Liz Pate
Bible Teacher
First Baptist Church
Brenda Patten
Former Teacher Aid
Jeanne Patterson
Self-Employed
Risk Management Consultant
Barbara Patton
Former Middle School Teacher
Brenda Petrick
Mother
Dave Pusey
Education Reform Advocate
Georgia
Stephen Ralston
Private Citizen
Former Trustee, Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology
Judy Ramirez
Former Teachers
Words Ahead
Anne Rankin
Mother and Concerned Citizen
Marilyn Reed
Education Consultant
Commonwealth Education Organization
Hannah Reeves
Former Teacher, Tutor
Libertarian
Valerie Reh
Teacher and Parent
Fran Rice
Language Disability Advocate
John Roberts
Technical Instructor
Julius Robbins
Retired
Kori Robbins
Mother
Jeff Rogero
Industrial/Mechanical Engineer
ATFS
Laurie Rogers
Children’s Advocate and Education Author
Author of Betrayed: How the Education Establishment has Betrayed America and What You Can Do About It and “Betrayed” blog on Education
Kelley L. Ross, Ph.D.
Editor
Proceedings of the Friesian School
Sandra Ruggles
Eagle Forum
Ayn Marie Samuelson
Author, Exposing the Public Education System
Homeschool Parent
Political Activist
David W. Saxe
Professor
Penn State University
Mrs. Mary Emily Scallon
US Citizen
Michael Schuerger, Sr.
Small Business Owner, Scout Leader
Boy Scouts of America
Kathryn Schultz
Substitute Teacher and Music Director
Mother of 4
Jill Schwarz
Teacher
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
Paul Stackpole, Sr.
Former Educator
Marilyn Steffen
Parent
Separation of School and State
J.E. Stone
President, Education Consumers Foundation
Kathy Strand
Parent
Barbara Susco
Former Teacher
Florida Eagle Forum
Dora Taylor
Educator
Parents Across America
Ms. Susan Taylor
Retired
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
Charles Weber
Private Citizen
Mr. and Mrs. Paul and Molly Wehrenberg
Private Citizens
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
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
Jennifer Zapata
Parent
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