Williamson M "Bill" Evers was born on October 18,1948 and is a former American libertarian activist and education researcher.
11 Facts About Williamson Evers
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Williamson Evers went on leave from Hoover to serve as Assistant Secretary for the Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development in the United States Department of Education in 2007 to 2009.
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Williamson Evers was abruptly fired in a nasty internal power dispute with Cato president Ed Crane.
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In 1984, Williamson Evers was campaign director for Libertarian Party presidential candidate David Bergland.
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Williamson Evers was still a member of the Libertarian National Committee as of March 1996.
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In California, Williamson Evers has served on the Republican State Central Committee and acted as an adviser to several Republican gubernatorial campaigns.
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In 1995, while one of his children was a third-grader at Escondido Elementary School in the Palo Alto Unified School District in California, Williamson Evers became an outspoken participant in the Math Wars over the teaching of mathematics.
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Williamson Evers became a leading member of the steering committee of a group called HOLD on Math Reform and organized a publicity stunt in which a toilet was mounted on the back of a pick-up truck and driven to a protest outside the school district headquarters.
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Williamson Evers was a commissioner on the California State Academic Standards Commission from 1996 to 1998 and again in 2010.
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On February 8,2007, Bush nominated Williamson Evers to be an assistant secretary of education.
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Williamson Evers has written several opinion columns for well-known publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, and The Christian Science Monitor.