CHARLES TAYLOR KERCHNER is a professor of education at the Claremont Graduate School in Claremont, California and a noted authority on teacher unionism and post-industrial education.

JULIA E. KOPPICH served until recently on the faculty of the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley and as director of Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE). She is now managing partner of a new educational consulting firm in Berkeley, California and also serves as associate professor of education at the Claremont Graduate School.

JOSEPH G. WEERES is professor of education at the Claremont Graduate School and specializes in the impact of technology on educational policy. Kerchner and Weeres live in Claremont, California and Koppich in Berkeley, California.