QLR Advisory Board

Alma A. Allen, Ed.D. President, National Association of State Boards of Education; Member, State Board of Education, Texas, Representative of the Texas House of Representatives

Julius Cano, Ed.D. Executive Director, Region 3 Education Service Center, Texas

Jay Cummings, Ph.D. Dean, College of Education; Professor, Educational Leadership, Texas Southern University

Henry D. Herrera, Superintendent, Alice Independent School District, Alice, Texas

Li Yen Johnson, Ph.D. Regional Director, Arsenal Technical Region, Indianapolis Public Schools, Indiana

Dwight Jones, State Commissioner, Colorado Department of Education; Former Superintendent, Fountain-Fort Carson School District 8, Colorado Springs, Colorado; Former Vice-President, The Edison Company

John T. Kernan, Director and Consultant, Plato Learning; Founder and Former Chairman & CEO, Lightspan, Inc.; Former Chairman and CEO, Jostens Learning

William N. (Bill) Kirby, Ph.D. Former Commissioner of Education, Texas

Carol Rupe, Member, State Board of Education, Kansas; Former President, Board of Education, Wichita, Kansas

Belinda Williams, Ph.D. Co-Author and Editor, Closing the Achievement Gap: A Vision for Changing Beliefs and Practices; Author, Effort and Excellence in Urban Classrooms: Expecting—and Getting—Success from All Students (2002)