Jeanne Allen is the Founder and President of the Center for Education Reform (CER), a Washington, DC based organization driving the creation of better educational opportunities for all children by leading parents, policymakers and the media in boldly advocating for school choice, advancing the charter school movement, and challenging the education establishment.

Co-author of "The School Reform Handbook: How to Improve Your Schools" (1995), Jeanne is recognized as one of the country's leading education experts. She appears frequently on national television and radio programs, and can often be found in the pages of the nation's most influential newspapers and magazines.

Jeanne is the mother of four school-age children, Johnny, Teddy, Anthony, and Mary Monica and is married to Dr. Kevin L. Strother.

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The Center for Education Reform salutes all those folks beyond the Beltway who have written laws on the back of a napkin, worked tirelessly to persuade lawmakers to pass those laws, created schools, written standards, and generally challenged the conventional wisdom in the interest of making schools work better for all children. These are YOUR Action Heroes, and here are their stories.

January 2007


Action Hero: Rick Piercy

According to a December 29, 2006 article published in the Victorville, CA Daily Press, naming him Person of the Year, "Piercy has led nothing less than a radical revolution in public education as founder and CEO of the Lewis Center for Educational Research and the Academy for Academic Excellence in Apple Valley." He throws out traditional ideas about how students learn, creates innovation through public/private partnerships, slices through government bureaucracy and raises expectations for both students and parents alike.


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