John E. Chubb, chief education officer and one of the founders of Edison Schools, a private manager of public schools, including many charter schools
Chester E. Finn Jr., senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, chairman of the Koret Task Force, and president of the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation
Eric A. Hanushek, Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution
Paul T. Hill, research professor and acting dean in the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs and director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education, both at the University of Washington
Caroline M. Hoxby, professor of economics at Stanford University and director of the Economics of Education Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and former professor of economics at Harvard University
Terry M. Moe, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and professor of political science at Stanford University
Paul E. Peterson, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government and director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University
Diane Ravitch, research professor of education at New York University, Brown Chair in Education Policy at the Brookings Institution, and assistant secretary of education under President George H. W. Bush
Herbert J. Walberg, research professor of education and psychology emeritus and University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago
Williamson M. Evers (on leave), research fellow at the Hoover Institution, now serving as U.S. assistant secretary of education for planning, evaluation and policy development
E. D. Hirsch Jr. (retired) was distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution from 1999 to 2006 and a charter member of the Koret Task Force on K–12 Education (1999–2006)