Edward B. Fiske is an internationally known education writer and editor who has written informatively on topics ranging from American higher education to primary school reform in Southeast Asia, New Zealand and South Africa.

Formerly the Education Editor of The New York Times, Mr. Fiske is well known as the author of the best-selling Fiske Guide to Colleges (Sourcebooks), an annual publication that has been a standard part of college admissions literature for two decades. Other books on college admissions co-authored with Bruce G. Hammond include the Fiske Guide to Getting Into the Right College, the Fiske College Deadline Planner, and the Fiske New SAT Insider's Guide (Sourcebooks).

Mr. Fiske and his wife, Helen F. Ladd, an economist at Duke University, spent the first half of 2002 at the University of Cape Town in South Africa teaching and carrying out research on that country's efforts to create an equitable and democratic state education system in the post-apartheid era. The resulting book, Elusive Equity, was published in July 2004 by Brookings Institution Press. In 1998 they carried out a similar project examining New Zealand's experiment with market-based school reforms. Their book, When Schools Compete: A Cautionary Tale, was published in 2000 by the Brookings Institution Press. Mr. Fiske is also author of the highly praised 1991 study of systemic school reform in the United States entitled Smart Schools, Smart Kids (Simon & Schuster).

Mr. Fiske joined The New York Times in 1964 as a news clerk and, after serving as Religion Editor, became the Education Editor in 1974. He edited the Times' quarterly education supplements and in 1983 authored an award-winning series on Japanese schools. In 1991 Mr. Fiske left the Times to pursue other writing interests related to education. He spent 1993-94 in Cambodia, where he worked with the International Rescue Committee on a UNICEF-sponsored cluster school project in the northwestern city of Battambang. He also worked with the Asian Development Bank and authored Using Both Hands, an analysis of the situation of girls and women in education in Cambodia.

Mr. Fiske’s journalistic travels have taken him to more than 60 countries. In 1995 he went to the former Soviet Union in behalf of the Academy for Educational Development to assess the effects of a major training program sponsored by the U.S. Agency for International Development, and in 1996 he visited Alaska and the Russian Far East to evaluate an exchange program run by the U.S. Information Agency. Other assignments have included a 1996 study of the politics of school decentralization for the World Bank; a series of reports for UNESCO, including the final report of the World Forum on Education for All, held in Dakar, Senegal in April 2000; and a 2001 report for the Aga Khan Foundation on its schools in northern Pakistan.

Mr. Fiske was born in Philadelphia. He attended the William Penn Charter School and Wesleyan University, from which he was graduated summa cum laude. He received master’s degrees in theology from Princeton Theological Seminary and in political science from Columbia University and has been awarded honorary doctorates by Occidental College and other institutions.

He is a regular contributor to the International Herald-Tribune. In addition to the New York Times his articles and book reviews have appears in American Prospect, Atlantic Monthly, Chronicle of Higher Education, Education Week, The New Republic, Readers Digest and other national publications. He has received numerous awards for education reporting and serves on a number of boards of non-profit organizations, including the Foundation for Excellent Schools in Vermont and the Center for International Understanding in Raleigh, NC, and the Central Park School, a charter school in Durham, NC.

Robert Logue has served on the Fiske Guide to Colleges staff since 1995, first as a staff writer and subsequently in his current position as managing editor. He holds a bachelor's degree in humanities and has written extensively for corporate, technical, and educational clients.

His professional background spans seventeen years of leadership experience in the private, public and non-profit sectors, including roles in educational administration, professional and technical communications, web development, wellness training, public relations, sales, marketing, and business development.

Mr. Logue currently owns and operates LeaderShift Coaching, a personal and professional success coaching practice located in Orlando, Florida.

Since entering Yale in the early 1980s, Bruce G. Hammond has devoted much of his time to counseling others about college admissions. At Yale, Hammond was editor-in-chief of The Insider's Guide to the Colleges. He subsequently served as managing editor of the Fiske Guide to Colleges. His most recent book is Discounts and Deals at the Nation's 360 Best Colleges. He has been quoted in numerous national publications including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Washington Post, Business Week, Money Magazine, and Good Housekeeping.

Mr. Hammond currently serves as college advisor at iVillage.com's Parent Soup channel. Hammond lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with his wife and stepsons and is director of college counseling at Sandia Preparatory School.