Over eight million students in grades 4 through 12 read and write significantly below grade level. The Intermediate and Adolescent Literacy Advisory Group provides guidance to the Alliance's work to promote effective interventions that raise the achievement of struggling readers and on integrating literacy instruction into content area classes to help all students achieve at higher levels.

Effective teachers and school leaders are critical to any efforts to improve the achievement levels of all students. The Teacher and Principal Quality Advisory Group shares its expertise about issues related to school leadership, professional development, recruitment and retention, and other topics.

The President's Policy Council is a group of advisors to the Alliance that includes some of the most respected thinkers in the nation on issues related to improving the achievement and attainment levels of students in the secondary grades – students who are too often overlooked in the national debate about improving schools and the country's educational system.

The Secondary School Improvement Advisory Group is a group of respected practitioners, researchers, and policy leaders with experience and expertise in high school improvement and turnaround.  This advisory group will guide the organization’s work around secondary school improvement.