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Martin Carnoy is the Vida Jacks Professor of Education and Economics at Stanford University. He writes on the economic value of education, on the underlying political economy of educational policy, and on the financing and resource allocation aspects of educational production. Much of his work is comparative and international, and investigates the impact of global economic and social change on the way educational systems are organized. He is the author of numerous books including, Sustaining the New Economy: Work, Family and Community in the Information Age (Harvard, 2000), The Charter School Dust-Up (co-author, 2005); Cuba’s Academic Advantage (2007), and Vouchers and Public School Performance (2007). He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago.