Thomas Toch is Co-founder and Co-director of Education Sector. Prior to launching Education Sector in 2005, Toch spent three years as Writer-in-Residence at the National Center on Education and Economy and Director of the NCEE Policy Forums program, three years as a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution, and a decade as a writer at U.S. News and World Report. He taught education policy at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1999. As a member of the staff that launched Education Week in the early 1980s, Toch served variously as writer, commentary editor, and co-managing editor. Toch is the author of two books on education policy and has contributed to The New York Times, The New Republic and a wide range of other national newspapers and magazines. His work has twice been nominated for National Magazine Awards, the magazine industry’s equivalent of the Pulitzer Prizes. He graduated from Kenyon College and has a master’s degree from the University of Toronto.