One of the nation’s leading experts on public education in rural America, Dr. Hobart Harmon is codirector of the Rural Math Excel Partnership, an investing in innovation (i3) project funded by the U.S. Department of Education (U.S. DoE), and operated by the Virginia Advanced Study Strategies, Inc. Dr. Harmon has been involved in some of the most significant improvement initiatives in rural education, including the National Science Foundation’s Rural Systemic Initiatives, and the U.S. DoE’s 15-state rural dropout prevention technical assistance initiative. Dr. Harmon also advised the Alliance for Excellent Education in producing a report that brought attention to the dropout problem in rural America.