Charles Quigley is the Executive Director of the Center for Civic Education, a nonprofit corporation established in 1969 and affiliated with the State Bar of California. Key staff members of the Center and its national network have been involved in the development of the 1998 NAEP Civics Framework, which guided development of the 1998, 2006, and 2010 NAEP Civics Assessments. The 1998 NAEP Civics Framework was based upon the National Standards for Civics and Government that the Center published in 1994.

Mr. Quigley is broadly recognized as one of the most prominent curriculum and program developers in the field. Prior to the founding of the Law in a Free Society Project in 1970, Mr. Quigley was Executive Director of the Committee on Civic Education - an interdisciplinary faculty committee at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also the author and editor of many textbooks, curricular materials, and articles on civic education.

Mr. Quigley is the creator and director of We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution; the CIVITAS Model Civic Education Curriculum Framework Project; the National Standards for Civics and Government project; and the Civitas: An International Civic Education Exchange Program. He is one of the founding members and remains on the steering committee of CIVITAS International, linking leading civic education programs in 28 U.S. states with educational leaders in more than 70 developing democracies throughout the world.

Mr. Quigley was a senior consultant to the National Commission on Civic Renewal, co-chaired by U.S. Senators Sam Nunn and William Bennett. He was selected by the Secretary of Education to be the principal respondent to the NAEP Civics report in 1999.