Moving to Washington DC in 1972, he became Assistant Director of the US Office of Economic Opportunity, then assistant director of the National Institute of Education where he ran the nation’s two largest education demonstration projects, Education Voucher and Experimental Schools.

He has been associated with “think tanks” since 1980 -- Brookings, AEI, Heritage and Hudson Institute, where he is presently a non-resident Fellow. He has written numerous scholarly and popular articles including The Atlantic, The Public Interest, Change, Education Week and The Phi Delta Kappan. He has also published more than 150 “op eds” in the nation’s most prestigious newspapers: The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, and the Baltimore Sun.

Three of his books in print are Investing in Our Children: Business and the Public Schools (CED, NY NY: 1984); Winning the Brain Race: A Bold Plan to Make Our Schools Competitive (with David T. Kearns, Xerox CEO, ICS Press, SF, 1989 and 1991) and Reinventing Education: Entrepreneurship in America’s Public Schools (with Louis V. Gerstner, IBM CEO, et al, EP Dutton, 1994.)

With underwriting from Rockwell International, he wrote a yearlong series of sponsored editorials about education for The Atlantic (450,000 circulation) and wrote the longest special section ever to run in BusinessWeek. Titled Children of Promise, it ran in the Corporate Elite issue (800,000 circulation); 400,000 reprints were distributed.

His most recent book is Raising the Standard (with Susan Pimentel) a how-to book for schools interested in standards-based reform.

He has been a member of the Phi Delta Kappa editorial advisory board, the Center for Education Reform Board, the RJR Nabisco Foundation Advisory Board, the US-Japan CULCON Advisory Board, and was appointed by Secretary Alexander to the National Education Commission on Time and Learning. He serves on the boards of the Ball Foundation in Glen Ellyn IL and City Lights, a non-profit school for troubled youngsters in Washington DC.

He lectures on education change at home and abroad -- his overseas assignments have included Australia, New Zealand, Korea, Japan, Thailand, Turkey, Austria, Germany, France and Great Britain -- and he has worked with many major corporations in the US and abroad, including Xerox, IBM, HP, RJR Nabisco, GTE and Ameritech. He is advisor to the President of the Coordinating Council for International Universities in Washington DC.

He is married to Gloria Revilla, and is the father of two children, Alicia and Christopher. He lives and works in Chevy Chase MD.