Our Staff
Samuel Halperin, Founder and Senior Fellow, has held leadership positions in academia, the federal government, a foundation and non-profit organizations for over 40 years. Former President of the Institute for Educational Leadership; Deputy Assistant Secretary at the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare; and a Congressional Fellow of the American Political Science Association, where he worked on U.S. Senate and House of Representatives committees dealing with major education legislation, he has served as Study Director of Youth and America's Future: The William T. Grant Foundation Commission on Work, Family and Citizenship (responsible for major studies: The Forgotten Half: Non-College Youth in America and The Forgotten Half: Pathways to Success for America's Youth and Young Families).