Dan Challener is president of the Public Education Foundation in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He oversees the Foundation’s efforts to strengthen student achievement in Hamilton County’s public schools including the Schools for a New Society Initiative. As part of the initiative, Mr. Challener mobilized his community to support the adoption of a default college preparatory curriculum for all students. Before moving to Chattanooga in 1999, Mr. Challener served for seven years as CEO of the Providence Blueprint for Education, a communitybased advocacy and research project that involved communities in the improvement of public schools in Providence, Rhode Island. He has taught high school in New Jersey and served as adjunct faculty of both Brown University and Johnson & Wales University. Mr. Challener holds a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University and a master’s and PhD in English from Brown.