Ray Bacchetti is a scholar in residence at The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. He has been education program officer of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, vice president for planning and management at Stanford University, and an elementary school teacher.

Thomas Ehrlich is a senior scholar at The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. He has been president of Indiana University, provost of the University of Pennsylvania, and dean of the Stanford Law School, and has held several positions in the federal government. He is author, coauthor, or editor of ten other books, including Educating Citizens.