Mike Petrilli is vice president for national programs and policy at the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, where he oversees the Foundation’s research projects and publications, including The Education Gadfly. He is also research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and executive editor of Education Next. Mr. Petrilli is coauthor, with Frederick M. Hess, of No Child Left Behind: A Primer, a comprehensive overview of the law and its implementation. Previously, he served as associate assistant deputy secretary in the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Innovation and Improvement. In that role, he oversaw several discretionary grant programs that support a variety of education reforms, including alternate routes to certification, charter schools, and more, and helped to lead the implementation of No Child Left Behind’s public school choice and supplemental services provisions. Mr. Petrilli holds a bachelor’s degree, with honors, in political science from the University of Michigan and a teaching certificate in high school social studies.