Mark Pennington is Professor of Political Economy and Public Policy in the Department of Political Economy, King’s College London. Previously, he worked in the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary, University of London. His published books include Planning and the Political Market: Public Choice and the Politics of Government Failure (2001), Liberating the Land (2002), and most recently Robust Political Economy: Classical Liberalism and the Future of Public Policy (2011). His research interests include democratic theory, the economics and ethics of environmental protection, and comparative political economy.

Randall Curren is Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Education at the University of Rochester, Chair of Moral and Virtue Education in the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues at the University of Birmingham, and Professor in the Royal Institute of Philosophy in London. He was the Ginny and Robert Loughlin Founders’ Circle Member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey for 2012-13. He is the author of Aristotle on the Necessity of Public Education (2000), editor of A Companion to the Philosophy of Education (2003), editor of the journal Theory and Research in Education, and coeditor of the University of Chicago Press History and Philosophy of Education Series.

Jennifer M. Morton is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the City College of New York, City University of New York. Her main areas of research interest include philosophy of education, philosophy of action, moral philosophy, and political philosophy. She has published in the European Journal of Philosophy, the Journal of Political Philosophy, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, and Theory and Research in Education. She was a recipient of a Spencer Foundation Grant during the year 2012.

Ishtiyaque Haji is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Calgary. He is the author of Moral Appraisability (1998), Moral Responsibility, Authenticity, and Education (2008), Freedom and Value (2009), Incompatibilism’s Allure (2009), and Reason’s Debt to Freedom (2012), and is coauthor of Deontic Morality and Control (2002).

Gina Schouten is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Illinois State University. Her research interests include educational justice, political liberalism and political legitimacy, and gender in the family. She received her Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 2013 and is author or coauthor of several articles published in journals such as Philosophy and Public Affairs, Journal of Philosophy of Education, and the Journal of Applied Philosophy.

Harry Brighouse is Professor of Philosophy and Affiliate Professor of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. In addition to numerous articles, he is the author of School Choice and Social Justice (2000), Justice (2004), and On Education (2006) and is the coauthor of The Political Philosophy of Cosmopolitanism (2005). His research interests include political philosophy, philosophy of education, and education policy.

Thomas Schramme is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hamburg. His primary research interests are in political philosophy, ethics, and the philosophy of medicine. He has published articles in journals such as Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Environmental Politics, and Bioethics, and is the editor of the book Being Amoral: Psychopathy and Moral Incapacity (2014).

Jaime Ahlberg is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Florida. She is the coauthor (with Harry Brighouse) of “An Argument Against Cloning” (2010). Her areas of research interest include ethics and political philosophy, as well as issues concerning educational justice, justice and disability, and ideal and nonideal theory.

Michael Cholbi is Professor of Philosophy at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He has written widely in theoretical and practical ethics, and is best known for his work on the ethics of suicide. He is the author of Suicide: The Philosophical Dimensions (2011) and his articles appear in journals such as Philosophical Studies, Southern Journal of Philosophy, and American Philosophical Quarterly. He is also editor of the journal Teaching Philosophy.

James Tooley is Professor of Education Policy, and Founder and Director of the E. G. West Centre at Newcastle University. He is the author of The Beautiful Tree (2009), a best seller in India and winner of the 2010 Sir Antony Fisher Memorial Prize. Tooley has dedicated himself to creating working models of innovative practice in low-cost private education to help showcase its potential to extend access to, and improve educational opportunities for, the poor. He has held a number of teaching and research posts and is cofounder and chairman of Omega Schools, a chain of low-cost private schools in Ghana.

Paul Weithman is Glynn Family Honors Collegiate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He has published widely in political philosophy, the philosophy of education, and medieval political theory. His most recent book, Why Political Liberalism? On John Rawls’s Political Turn (2010), won the 2012 David and Elaine Spitz Book Prize as the outstanding contribution to liberal and democracy theory in 2010.

Kyla Ebels-Duggan is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard in 2007. She has held fellowships with the Spencer Foundation and Princeton University’s Center for Human Values. Her work has been published in Ethics, The Philosophical Quarterly, and Philosophers’ Imprint. She specializes in moral and political philosophy and their history.

Jon Mahoney is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Kansas State University. His research interests include political philosophy and philosophy of law with focuses on democratic equality and religious freedom. Recent publications include: “Democratic Equality and Corporate Political Speech” (2013) and “A Democratic Equality Approach to Religious Exemptions” (2011). His articles are published in Journal of Social Philosophy, Public Affairs Quarterly, and Journal of Value Inquiry.