Thomas Toch is founding director of FutureEd, an independent, solution-oriented think tank at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy.
He is a former senior partner at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and a founder and former co-director of the think tank Education Sector, a former guest scholar at the Brookings Institution, and he has taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He helped launch Education Week and served as the publication’s co-managing editor. He was a writer and editor at U.S. News and World Report and has contributed to The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Washington Post Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, Newsweek, The Washington Monthly, and other national publications. His work has twice been nominated for National Magazine Awards and he is the author of two books on American education, In the Name of Excellence (Oxford University Press) and High Schools on a Human Scale (Beacon Press). Toch has been a guest commentator on education on such programs as the ABC Nightly News, PBS NewsHour, Good Morning America, the CBS Morning News, Bloomberg TV, CNN, C-SPAN, Frontline, and National Public Radio.
He can be reached at ttoch@future-ed.org, tom@thomastoch.com, thomas.toch@geogetown.edu and 202-487-5941.