John E. Chubb, a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution and a member of Hoover’s Koret Task Force on K–12 Education, is interim CEO of Education Sector, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to independent analysis and innovative ideas in K–12 and higher education. He was previously a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a faculty member at Stanford University, and an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University and Princeton University. His books include Liberating Learning (Jossey-Bass, 2009) and Politics, Markets, and America’s Schools (Brookings, 1990), both with Terry M. Moe; Within Our Reach: How America Can Educate Every Child (Hoover, 2005); and Bridging the Achievement Gap (Brookings, 2002), edited with Tom Loveless. He earned an AB summa cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis and a PhD from the University of Minnesota, both in political science.