Marc S. Tucker, president of the National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE), created the National Institute for School Leadership, America's Choice, Inc., and the Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce. He was also the director of the Carnegie Forum on Education and the Economy, which created the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. Among numerous book and report publications, Tucker is the coauthor of Thinking for a Living: Education and the Wealth of Nations (Basic Books, 1993, with Ray Marshall) and coeditor of The Principal Challenge: Leading and Managing Schools in an Era of Accountability (Jossey-Bass, 2002, with Judy Codding).