Marc S. Tucker

Tucker is the founder of the National Center on Education and the Economy and has been a leader of the standards-driven education reform movement for many years. He created New Standards, a 23-state consortium designed to develop internationally benchmarked student performance standards and matching student examinations. He authored the 1986 Carnegie Report, A Nation Prepared: Teachers for the 21st Century, which called for a restructuring of America’s schools based on standards; created the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards; created the Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce and co-authored its report, America’s Choice: high skills or low wages!, which called for a new high school leaving certificate based on standards; and was instrumental in creating the National Skill Standards Board and served as the chairman of its committee on standards and assessment policy. Tucker also created the National Institute of School Leadership, the largest executive development program for school leaders in the United States.