Authors

Ariel Pablos-Méndez is managing director at the Rockefeller Foundation.

Senator Thomas Daschle is senior policy advisor for government affairs at DLA Piper.

Kathleen Sebelius is U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services. She served as the governor of Kansas from 2003 to 2009.

Gregory Cooper is a Fulbright scholar and student at the University of Texas School of Law.

Mark V. Vlasic is the former head of operations of the StAR Initiative. He is now an adjunct professor of law and a senior fellow at Georgetown University and a partner at Ward & Ward PLLC.

Irene Rossetto is a research assistant at LAESER.

Luis M. Carvano is the technical coordinator for LAESER and co-author of its Annual Report on Racial Inequality in Brazil.

Richard Robinson is the Chief Executive Officer of Scholastic Inc.

Marcelo Cabrol is the Chief of the Education Division of the Inter-American Development Bank.

Michelle Rhee is the former Chancellor of Washington DC Public Schools.

Melanio Paredes is Minister of Education of the Dominican Republic.

Joel Klein is the Chancellor of New York City Public Schools.   

Tamara Ortega Goodspeed is a senior associate at the Inter-American Dialogue where she manages the national and regional report card efforts for PREAL.

Jeffrey M. Puryear is vice president for social policy at the Inter-American Dialogue. He codirects the Dialogue’s education program, the Partnership for Educational Revitalization in the Americas (PREAL).

Thomas Farole is an economist with the International Trade Department of the World Bank.