John Michael McLaughlin founded Benton Hall High School, now in its fifth decade of service to the families of Nashville and Middle Tennessee. He was a tenured associate professor of educational administration at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota (1988-1998) and wrote monthly on education reform via The Education Industry Report (1993-2000). To date his fiction and nonfiction focus on the complex challenges of improving schooling. His current project is a novel set in Alabama in 1961.