Margaret “Macke” Raymond is the Program Director of the Hoover Institution Program on K‒12 Education at Stanford University. For decades, Macke has pursued evidence-based change to improve the schooling outcomes of student in US public schools, so they have better opportunities in life. She leads a team of twelve in the study of education reform efforts around the country. She is dedicated to ensuring our country provides opportunities for all its youth through excellent education in all schools.
A leader in studying US charter schools, school reform policy, measurement, performance, accountability, systems, and incentives, she has produced an extensive record of publications. She regularly appears in national media. Her expertise has been sought by the US Congress, many state legislatures and numerous federal and state education agencies.
Eric Hanushek is the Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University and one of the world’s leading scholars in the economics of education. His influential research has shaped education policy globally, with widely cited studies on teacher effectiveness, school accountability, class size, and the economic returns to educational quality. In 2021, he received the Yidan Prize for Education Research, the field’s most prestigious international award.
He has authored or edited 26 books and more than 300 articles, and he serves as a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a fellow of both the Society of Labor Economists and the American Educational Research Association. His public service includes roles as a commissioner on the U.S. Department of Education’s Equity and Excellence Commission, chair of the National Board for Education Sciences (2008–2010), Deputy Director of the Congressional Budget Office (1983–1985), and member of the National Assessment Governing Board (2019–2023). A member of the National Academy of Education and the International Academy of Education, he earned his Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology after graduating as a Distinguished Graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy.
Stephen Bowen currently serves as the executive director of the Hoover Education Success Initiative. In this role, he works to ensure that Hoover’s education research is informed by and responsive to the needs of practitioners, state policy leaders and education reform advocates.
Before joining Hoover, Bowen served as the deputy executive director for state leadership at the Council of Chief State School Officers, where he oversaw programs and services to support the council’s members, the state education chiefs, and other state education agency leaders. He joined the council in 2013.
From 2011 to 2013, he served as the commissioner of education. In this role, he led the department to better target its supports to schools and school districts; enacted and implemented public charter school legislation and expanded other school choice options; enacted innovative schools legislation; and worked to improve transparency in reporting of student outcomes.
He previously served briefly as a senior policy adviser for Governor Paul LePage, joining the administration from the Maine Heritage Policy Center (now the Maine Policy Institute), a state-based public policy think tank where he served as education policy director. He joined the center in 2007, after serving two terms in the Maine House of Representatives.
Bowen began his teaching career in Fairfax County, Virginia, and went on to teach middle and high school social studies in both Virginia and his native Maine for ten years.
Bowen holds a BA in political science from Drew University and a master of education, with a specialization in secondary education, from George Mason University.
