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	David Berliner is currently dean of the College of Education at Arizona State University where he also serves as Regents' Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, and of Psychology in Education. He is co-author of the textbook, Educational Psychology (with N.L. Gage). He has co-authored the best seller, The Manufactured Crisis (with B.J. Biddle), which is an examination of the achievements and problems of America's schools. He has co-authored, with Ursula Casanova, Putting Research to Work. He is also co-editor of the Handbook of Educational Psychology (with R.C. Calfee) and has co-edited the books Talks to Teachers and Perspectives on Instructional Time. He obtained his doctorate in educational psychology from Stanford University in 1968.

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	Sylvia Ann Hewlett is the founder and director of the National Parenting Association, a nonprofit organization dedicated to building a nationwide social movement that unites parents across race and class to make parenting a higher priority in our private lives and on the public agenda. She was recently awarded a fellowship by the Center for the Study of Values in Public Life at Harvard University. She is the author of When the Bough Breaks, which won three national awards including a Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book Prize and The War Against Parents, co-written with Cornel West. Talk/Miramax Press will release her forthcoming book, Baby Hunger, in December 2001. Dr. Hewlett has contributed articles to the Harvard Business Review, Time Magazine, and Parade and has served as a consultant to several corporations and to UNICEF.

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