Andrew Hacker

Andrew Hacker, the author of more than 10 books, including the New York Times best-seller, "Two Nations, Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal" and "Higher Education? How Colleges are Failing Our Kids and What We Can Do About it (with Claudia Dreifus) He holds degrees from Amherst College, Oxford College and Princeton University.

His essays appear in the New York Review of Books, the New York Times opinion page and the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Dr. Hacker is a professor of political science at Queens College in New York. His latest book, "The Math Myth and Other Stem Delusions" is, in part, based on his experiences in teaching a self-designed course in everyday quantative literarcy to a hardworking and tenancious group of Queens College freshman.

He lives in New York City.