Can Academic Standards Boost Literacy and Close the Achievement Gap?

About the Authors: Ron Haskins is a senior editor of The Future of Children, a senior fellow in Economic Studies and co-director of the Center on Children and Families at the Brookings Institution, and a senior consultant at the Annie E. Casey Foundation; Richard Murnane is the Thompson Professor of Education and Society at the Harvard Graduate School of Education; Isabel Sawhill is a senior fellow, the Cabot Family Chair, and co-director of the Center on Children and Families, at the Brookings Institution; Catherine Snow is the Patricia Albjerg Graham Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.