• Josh Anderson, a former Teach For America executive, on why education reform alone won’t promote social mobility 
• Delia Kimbrel, senior director of research and policy at ImpactTulsa, on a new strategy for bringing down barriers to equal educational opportunity 
• Ted Mitchell, the president of the American Council on Education, on a new equity agenda for higher education
• Anthony Salcito, former vice president of worldwide education at Microsoft, on the best strategy for introducing new instructional technology in schools post-pandemic
• Jeff Selingo, a leading author on college-admissions and former editor of the Chronicle of Higher Education, on the debate over the benefits of attending college
• Zahava Stadler, director of the Education Funding Equity Initiative at New America, on the next school finance reform agenda

We’re delighted to announce that Liz Cohen has joined the FutureEd team as our policy director. Liz’s wide-ranging experience in the education sector includes roles at the District of Columbia Public Schools’ Office of Data and Accountability, the Office of the State Superintendent in the District of Columbia, 50CAN, the Institute for Children, Poverty, and Homelessness, the Urban Institute and, most recently, Whiteboard Advisors. 

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• Kaya Henderson, chief executive officer of Reconstruction US and the former chancellor of the District of Columbia Public Schools, is our newest senior fellow.
• Dan Goldhaber, who has written extensively on the teaching profession as director of both CALDER and CEDR, is joining our research advisory board.
• Jason Okonofua, an assistant professor at the University of California-Berkeley who is doing cutting-edge research on school climate and student-teacher relationships, is also becoming a research advisor.