Frederick M. Hess is the director of Education Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. He writes Education Week’s popular blog “Rick Hess Straight Up” and is both an executive editor of Education Next and a senior contributor to Forbes. He is the author of The Great School Rethink, as well as influential works on school improvement such as Spinning Wheels and Cage-Busting Leadership.
Michael B. Horn is the author of several books on the future of education, including From Reopen to Reinvent: (Re)creating School for Every Child. He is the cofounder of and a distinguished fellow at the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation and teaches at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He cohosts the top education podcasts Future U and Class Disrupted.
Juliet Squire is a senior partner in the Policy and Evaluation practice area at Bellwether, where she has studied and written about federal and state policies on charter schools, school governance, private school management organizations, low-cost private schools and microschools, and rural education, among other topics.
