Thomas Toch is one of the nation's best-known education commentators. He has been a keen observer of the American education scene for years--as an award-winning author, national magazine writer, Harvard instructor, columnist, and think tank founder.

Toch has written extensively about the education trends of the past three decades as the senior education correspondent at U.S. News and World Report and as a contributor to The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, The Los Angeles Times and other national publications. His writing has won many prizes and has twice been nominated for National Magazine Awards, the magazine industry's equivalent of the Pulitzer Prizes.

Toch is director of the Washington office of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. He has taught education policy at Harvard, spent three years as a guest scholar at the prestigious Brookings Institution, co-founded the influential think tank Education Sector in Washington, and led Independent Education, an organization of outstanding private schools, where he established partnerships with leading Chinese public schools.

Toch speaks on a wide range of national and international elementary, secondary, and higher education topics, including the latest events in the nation's capital. He has been a guest commentator on such programs as the ABC Nightly News, Good Morning America, the CBS Morning News, Bloomberg TV, CNN, C-SPAN, Frontline, and National Public Radio. He is a regular contributor to the National Journal’s Education Experts blog.