Josh Cowen will be the Keynote Speaker on Thursday, August 7 at 9 a.m. in the Grand Ballroom

Josh Cowen is a Professor of Education Policy at Michigan State University.Cowen has written, testified and spoken widely on education policy and politics. His writing has appeared in outlets like Time Magazine, the Hechinger Report, the Dallas Morning News, the Detroit Free Press, Detroit News, Houston Chronicle, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and The New Republic, and been covered at NPR, NBC News, CBS News, Forbes, Fox News, CNN, New York Magazine, Time and other major media outlets. Josh Cowen’s book, The Privateers: How Billionaires Created a Culture War and Sold School Vouchers (Harvard Education Press), is an inside look at voucher politics and policymaking.