Linda Darling-Hammond is the president and CEO of the Learning Policy Institute. She is also the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford University, where she founded the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education and served as the faculty sponsor of the Stanford Teacher Education Program, which she helped to redesign. Darling- Hammond is past president of the American Educational Research Association and recipient of its awards for Distinguished Contributions to Research, Lifetime Achievement, and Research-to-Policy. Among her many publications are a number of award-winning books, including The Right to Learn, Teaching as the Learning Profession, Preparing Teachers for a Changing World, and The Flat World and Education. Jeannie Oakes is senior policy fellow at the Learning Policy Institute; Presidential Professor of Education Equity Emeritus at UCLA; and the former director of education at the Ford Foundation. She is past president of the American Educational Research Association and a member of the National Academy of Education. Oakes's research examines the effect of social policies on the education of low-income students of color and also investigates equity-minded reform. Her books include Keeping Track: How Schools Structure Inequality, Becoming Good American Schools: The Struggle for Civic Virtue in Education Reform, Learning Power, and Teaching to Change the World.