Jeanne Allen is one of the nation's most influential education experts. As president of the Center for Education Reform (CER), an organization she founded in 1993, Allen is consulted regularly by lawmakers and national leaders in efforts to improve America's schools.
An advocate of bringing the power of ordinary people to bear on policy decisions - believing that reform best begins in the neighborhoods and communities of America - she is the author of The School Reform Handbook: How to Improve Your Schools. Allen also serves as an advisor to several national and community-based organizations.
Allen's two decades of education experience and expertise places her at the forefront of the drive to bring substantive change to education. She is a frequent commentator in print and broadcast media having appeared on shows ranging from Good Morning America, Nightline, and the Today Show to NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and The O'Reilly Factor. Her commentaries and thoughts appear in the more than 200 publications yearly, including The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Investor's Business Daily, The Dallas Morning News, and Newsday. Leading family magazines such as Good Housekeeping, Parents, and Reader's Digest frequently rely on Allen's expertise on parent and education issues.
Allen received her bachelors in political science from Dickinson College and went on to work on Capitol Hill and the U.S. Department of Education in senior posts. She founded the Center for Education Reform to fill the void that existed in the nation for sound leadership on education reform. CER, an independent non-profit advocacy organization, is the nation's leading authority on education reform and provides important tools for those seeking to create reform-oriented change, and bring together diverse forces dedicated to making schools better.
