Williamson Evers

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Williamson M. "Bill" Evers is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, located at Stanford University. Between July and December of 2003, he served as a senior education advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority during the U.S. occupation of Iraq [1].

During the 1970s and 80s, Evers was involved in the American libertarian movement and the Libertarian Party specifically; for several years he edited the left-libertarian magazine Inquiry. At this time, he was considered a radical (he was a prominent member of the party's Radical Caucus) and an ally of Murray Rothbard against Ed Crane and his supporters. Evers later moderated some of his opinions and began to work with the Republican Party.^{[citation needed]}

Previously, from 1996 to 1998, Evers was associated with the California State Commission for the Establishment of Academic Content and Performance Standards. In 2001, he was appointed by President George W. Bush to the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars. As of 2005, he is a research fellow of the Hoover Institution and a member of its Koret Task Force on K-12 Education.

Evers has written several opinion columns for well-known publications such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and Christian Science Monitor. In 2005 he published a book, Within Our Reach: How America Can Educate Every Child.

On February 8, 2007, President Bush nominated Evers to be Assistant Secretary at the US Department of Education.