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Claudia Hepburn
Executive Director, The Next 36
Claudia Hepburn is the founder of the Children First: School Choice Trust, the only program in Canada to have wonthe Templeton Award for Social Entrepreneurship. Claudia was the founding Managing Director of The Fraser Institute, Ontario Office (2003-2008), and founded and directed the Institute's department of education policy research (1999-2008). She is the co-author of many education studies including Low Incomes, High Standards: Can private schools make a difference for low income families? (2008), Why Canadian Education Isn't Improving (2006), The Canadian Education Freedom Index (2003), the editor of Can the Market Save Our Schools (2001), and the author of The Case for School Choice: Models from the United States, New Zealand, Denmark and Sweden (1999). She founded and hosts the institute's popular cocktail series, Behind the Spin: Fraser @ The Fifth , and its new dinner series, DIALOGUES . As the director of education policy, she was a frequent media commentator on education issues for a decade and her articles appeared in newspapers across Canada. She has a BA in English from Amherst College in Massachusetts, and an MA and B.Ed from the University of Toronto. Ms Hepburn was named one of Canada's Ten Most Inspiring Women of 2006 and one of the 2008 Top 25 Canadian Women of the Year by the Women's Post.… Read more -
John Merrifield
John Merrifield, Ph. D., is a Professor of Economics at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He has publishedthree books, 38 articles, and several chapters in edited books in his primary teaching and research fields of K-12 school reform, the environment, natural resource management, urban and regional economics, and public choice. Dr. Merrifield received a B. S. in natural resource management from California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo in 1977, a M. A. in economic geography from the University of Illinois in 1979 and a Ph. D. in economics from the University of Wyoming in 1984.… Read more -
Malkin Dare
Malkin Dare began her career as an elementary school teacher after graduating with a BA in English literature from theUniversity of Western Ontario and a teaching diploma from London Teachers' College. She later joined the Department of External Affairs and served in Hong Kong and Barbados. Mrs. Dare has completed the academic requirements for Certified Management Accountant. As a result of her concern for the state of education in Ontario, she was one of the founding members of the Organization for Quality Education (OQE). She was OQE's founding president, a director of the Society for Advancing Educational Research in Education, and the author of How to Get the Right Education for Your Child and Stairway to Reading. Mrs. Dare, the mother of two, is currently the President of the Society for Quality Education and a reading tutor.… Read more