September 15, 2007
Executive Director - Joe Williams
Joe Williams has built a reputation as one of the most effective strategists and coalition-builders in the education reform community. He is a nationally recognized analyst and public speaker on education policy and politics, reaching thousands of listeners in audiences from coast to coast each year.
Joe is also one of the most prolific writers and commentators in the education reform world, often tapping into his experience as a newspaper reporter and author to make the case for reform. He previously worked as an award-winning education journalist for the New York Daily News and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He has written extensively on education politics nationally and has served as a non-resident senior fellow for the Washington-based think-tank Education Sector. He is author of the book Cheating our Kids: How Politics and Greed Ruin Education (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.)
Joe lives in New York City where his children attend the city's public schools.
Joe has contributed book chapters, articles and reports on numerous education-reform related topics:
-- Education Next, "Who got the raw deal in Gotham," Winter 2005.
-- Education Sector, "L.A. Story: Can a Parent Revolution Change Urban Education's Power Structure?" July 2006.
-- Education Next, "Games Charter Opponents Play," Winter 2007.
-- Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government, "The Politics of NOT Implementing an Adequacy Judgement: The Case of New York," October 2005.
-- Education Sector, "Echo Chamber: The National Education Association's Campaign Against NCLB," July 2006.
-- Education Sector, "Extreme Makeover: Two Failing San Diego Schools Get New Start As Charters," November 2006.
-- Education Next, "The Legal Cash Machine," Summer 2005.
-- Education Next, "An Education Mayor Takes Charge," Fall 2005.
-- Hechinger Institute On Education and The Media, "From Contracts to Classrooms: Covering Teachers Unions," Spring 2007.
-- Education Next, "Breaking The Mold: How Do School Entrepreneurs Create Change," Spring 2006.
