Henry "Hank" Levin is the William Heard Kilpatrick Professor of Economics and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University and David Jacks Professor of Higher Education and Economics Emeritus at Stanford University. He is also the director of the National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education and co-director of The Center for Benefit-Cost Studies of Education. Having lectured widely in Europe, Latin America, and Asia, Levin began his career at the Brookings Institution where he also worked as a long-term substitute teacher in the Washington, D. C. public school system. As the founder and director of the Accelerated Schools Project, Levin championed increased access to challenging curricula for at-risk children, a model now used in about 1,000 schools in the United States and abroad. Having written more than 300 articles and authored or edited twenty books, Levin is also a committee member for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), the National Research Council, and the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Levin has written extensively about economic issues in education including privatization, school choice, and the social costs of inadequate education.

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