Speaker biographies
David E. Campbell, author of Why We Vote: How Schools and Communities Shape Our Civic Life (Princeton University Press, 2006), is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame, as well as a research fellow at the Institute for Educational Initiatives. He is the editor of the book A Matter of Faith: Religion in the 2004 Presidential Election (Brookings Institution, forthcoming), coauthor of The Education Gap: Vouchers and Urban Schools (Brookings, 2002), and Democracy at Risk: How Political Choices Have Undermined Citizenship and What We Can Do about It (Brookings, 2005), and co-editor of Charters, Vouchers, and Public Education (Brookings, 2001). In addition to these books, he has published articles in publications including the Journal of Politics, Political Behavior, Public Opinion Quarterly, and Education Next. He has won awards from the American Political Science Association for the best doctoral dissertation in American politics, the best paper on elections and voting, and twice won for the best paper on religion and politics at the association’s annual meeting. He is currently collaborating with Robert Putnam on a study of religion’s changing role in American civic life.
William A. Galston is a senior fellow in the Brookings Institution’s Governance Studies Program, and College Park Professor at the University of Maryland. Previously he was director of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy and founding director of the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement. From 1993–95, Galston served as deputy assistant on domestic policy to President Bill Clinton, in which capacity he had principal responsibility for education policy. He served as senior advisor to Al Gore’s run for the Democratic presidential nomination (1988) and subsequently to Gore’s presidential campaign (1999-2000). Galston has written more than a hundred articles on political theory and is the author of eight books, including Liberal Pluralism (Cambridge, 2002), The Practice of Liberal Pluralism (Cambridge, 2004), and Public Matters (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005). He is also a member the editorial board of the recently founded journal Democracy. Galston serves on the boards of numerous organizations and was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004.
Frederick M. Hess is Director of Education Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute and Executive Editor of Education Next. His many books include Educational Entrepreneurship (Harvard Education Press 2006), Tough Love for Schools (AEI Press 2006), With the Best of Intentions (Harvard Education Press 2005), Common Sense School Reform (Palgrave Macmillan 2004), Revolution at the Margins (Brookings Institution 2002), and Spinning Wheels (Brookings Institution 1999). His work has appeared in outlets including Urban Affairs Review, Social Science Quarterly, American Politics Quarterly, Teachers College Record, Education Week, Phi Delta Kappan, Educational Leadership, and National Review. Dr. Hess currently serves on the Review Board for the Broad Prize in Urban Education, as a research associate with the Harvard University Program on Education Policy and Governance, and as a member of the research advisory board for the National Center on Educational Accountability. Dr. Hess is a former high school social studies teacher and professor of education who earned his M.Ed. in teaching and curriculum and his M.A. and Ph.D. in government from Harvard University.
Bob Wise became president of the Alliance for Excellent Education in February 2005. Under his leadership, the alliance has continued to build its reputation as a respected authority on high school policy and to advocate for reform in America’s secondary education system, working to ensure that all students graduate from high school prepared for success. As governor of West Virginia from 2001–05, he fought for and signed legislation to fund the PROMISE (Providing Real Opportunities for Maximizing In-state Student Excellence) Scholarship Program, which has helped thousands of West Virginia students remain in the Mountain State for college. In 2001, Governor Wise proposed salary bonuses for teachers who achieve National Board Certification, which helped triple the rate of certified teachers in the state. Education Week’s 2004 “Quality Counts” report gave West Virginia its highest cumulative grade of all fifty states. From 1983–2001, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing the Second District of West Virginia, during which time he aggressively worked to preserve federal financial aid for students to attend college.
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