Senior Advisors and Consultants

Lisa Graham Keegan, Senior Advisor

A national leader in the campaign to improve our nation's schools. She is chief executive officer of the Education Leaders Council (ELC) and an eloquent advocate for high academic standards for all students, school choice, and charter schools.

Faye P. Taylor, Senior Advisor

Commissioner of Education for the State of Tennessee. During her 29 years in education, she has been a classroom teacher, a reading resource teacher, a Title I teacher, a principal, and a supervisor. In June 2001, she became only the second woman to serve as Tennessee's Commissioner of Education.

Douglas Carnine, Senior Advisor

A nationally recognized expert in instructional design, reading and standards-based accountability reform. He is director of the National Center to Improve the Tools of Educators (NCITE). Carnine also serves on the research board of the federal Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI).

Susan E. Phillips, Senior Advisor and Consultant

A widely published consultant in testing and the law and a former professor of psychometrics with over 25 years experience in test development, and a dozen years in consulting on the interface of the law with testing. Phillips was the principal legal consultant in the Texas case G.I. Forum v. TEA.