Marc Tucker

Marc Tucker is the President and CEO of the National Center on Education and the Economy. Mr. Tucker is an internationally recognized expert on academic and occupational standards and assessment, and has also been among the leaders in researching the policies and practices of the countries with the best education systems in the world. Mr. Tucker 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 a 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. With Ray Marshall, Mr. Tucker co-authored Thinking for a Living: Education and the Wealth of Nations, selected by Business Week as one of the ten best business books of 1992; with Judy Codding, co-authored Standards for Our Schools: How to Set Them, Measure Them, and Reach Them, published in 1998; and co-edited The Principal Challenge, 2002. Mr. Tucker created the National Institute of School Leadership, a state-of-the-art executive development program for school leaders. Mr. Tucker was the lead author of Tough Choices or Tough Times, the report of the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce and the editor of Surpassing Shanghai: An Agenda for American Education Built on the Wrold's Leading Systems. In 2014, the Education Commission of the States awarded Mr. Tucker the James Bryant Conant award for his outstanding individual contribution to American education.