Anthony Carnevale currently serves as Research Professor, Director of the Global Institute on Education and the Workforce at Georgetown University. Between 1996 and 2006, Carnevale served as Vice President for Public Leadership at the Educational Testing Service (ETS). While at ETS Carnevale was appointed by President George Bush to serve on the White House Commission on Technology and Adult Education.

Duncan D. Chaplin is a senior researcher at Mathematica Policy Research and a consultant for the Urban Institute. As a specialist in labor economics and econometrics, he focuses on improving the methods used to estimate impacts of various education policies on academic and non-academic outcomes of students including high school and college graduation rates.

Jane Hannaway is an organizational sociologist whose work focuses on the study of educational organizations. She is founding Director of the Education Policy Center at the Urban Institute in Washington, D. C. and part of the Institute's senior management team. She is also the director of a new federally funded research center, CALDER (Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research), focused on analyses of state longitudinal student and teacher level administrative data bases, particularly analyses associated with teacher labor markets.

Henry M. Levin is the William Heard Kilpatrick Professor of Economics and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University and Director of the National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education, a non-partisan entity. He is also the David Jacks Professor of Higher Education and Economics, Emeritus, at Stanford University where he served from 1968-99 after working as an economist at the Brookings Institution in Washington.