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February 21, 2013 | Morning Edition (NPR)
July 20, 2012 | San Jose Mercury News
If the governor and the various school boards do not succeed in extorting tax increases out of the population, the statement is clear: The students will be the first to suffer...
May 1, 2012 | Wall Street Journal
If we fail to reform K-12 schools, we'll have slow growth and more income inequality...
March 26, 2012 | Education Week
Schools will not improve until there are greater incentives for improving student achievement. Redistributing funds across schools or increasing the funding to schools by themselves will not magically put us on this path...
February 24, 2012 | Daily News (NY)
But this is just one battle in the war for school reform...
January 19, 2012 | Thoughts on Public Education
Gov. Jerry Brown made two important statements about K-12 education in his State of the State speech on Wednesday...
August 28, 2011 | Newsweek
...32 percent of U.S. public and private-school students in the class of 2011 are deemed proficient in mathematics, placing the United States 32nd among the 65 nations that participated in the latest international tests administered by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)...
April 10, 2011 | San Francisco Chronicle
Sacramento is awash with discussions of deals about the budget (though apparently, despite the talk, there is no deal)...We offer a real deal...
April 1, 2011 | New York Post
Why more money is not the answer...
November 12, 2010 | Sacramento Bee
In an unexpected action last summer, the Los Angeles Times published the ratings of teacher effectiveness for 6,000 teachers by name. This is a potential game-changer...
October 27, 2010 | Daily News (NY)
New York City's schools chancellor, with the support of Mayor Bloomberg, wants to release the value-added test score results for 12,000 teachers...I've spent many years looking carefully at such data. I know it can be incendiary; I know it has flaws. Still, I strongly support its release...
October 19, 2010 | Wall Street Journal
There is a growing bipartisan agreement on the importance of rewarding good ones...
May 19, 2010 | Education Week
Looking at the current financial crisis, Eric A. Hanushek warns schools against using old tactics to deal with future budget shortfalls...
May 19, 2010 | Education Week
The fall in state and local revenues has been serious, saved only by approximately $100 billion in federal stimulus funds for schools. Although the data are hard to find. . . .
April 7, 2010 | Education Next
Over the past decade, Florida has shown its laser-focus on student performance. Beginning with Jeb Bush and his able and imaginative education team, Florida moved forward on a reform agenda.
November 6, 2009 | Science
A dominant strand of U.S. educational policy for the past two decades has been incorporation of information about student achievement into management and regulation of schools. . . .
August 12, 2009 | Education Week
Michael A. Rebell and Bruce D. Baker’s online Commentary "Assessing 'Success' in School Finance Litigations" (July 8, 2009) grasps at straws to justify unsuccessful court interventions of the past...
June 17, 2009 | San Francisco Chronicle
California's budget woes are known nationally...
June 10, 2009 | Education Week
How to finance our schools remains controversial, and is the subject of continuous rancor in courthouses and statehouses across the nation...
January 18, 2009 | Kansas City Star
Nobody doubts the need to improve our schools...
July 16, 2008 | Education Week
In her Commentary "Quick Fixes, Test Scores, and the Global Economy" (June 11, 2008) , Iris C. Rotberg takes out after people who are concerned about the performance of U.S. students on international assessments...
November 28, 2006 | New York Sun
Now that the state Court of Appeals has once and for all settled the New York City school finance lawsuit, state and city officials must soon initiate the next necessary discussion, which should prove much more interesting — about what needs to be done to improve the city's schools...
October 9, 2006 | Wall Street Journal
The nation is watching to see what happens with New York City school finance...
January 26, 2005
The performance of students in the United States has remained consistent over the past three decades—dismal.
January 19, 2004
A massive amount of evidence indicates that spending on schools is not closely related to school quality or student learning.
July 21, 2003
Although the resources we are providing to schools are increasing, the quality of the education those schools are providing is not.
May 13, 2002
The negative effects of moving are not only experienced by the children who move; all students in high-mobility schools, including nonmovers, tend to be affected.
March 25, 2002
If the schools are not currently up to standards, how can the courts or legislatures remedy the situation?
March 26, 2001
Correcting the lack of information about program effectiveness should be a national priority.
April 3, 2000
The teacher is the key ingredient to quality schooling.
Blogs
March 6, 2013 | Education Next
February 11, 2013 | Education Next
January 29, 2013 | Education Next
June 5, 2012 | Education Next
This is something we should support because it would provide new and important information to both states and localities. This new information would also provide added impetus to the imperative to improve our schools...
May 9, 2012 | Education Next
All of the intense pushing and shoving about the Common Core leaves one simple question: should we care?...
September 12, 2011 | SchoolBook (New York Times)
The use of student outcome measures for accountability is now firmly entrenched and is not about to go away. But a variety of complaints about the current testing system exist...
July 13, 2011 | Education Next
What is the worst way one could think of to deal with school district budget problems...
May 19, 2011 | Education Next
Class size is again in the media across the country, this time because of increases in class size related to fiscal cutbacks...
April 14, 2011 | Education Next
An expanding list of states has joined in legislative battles over the future character of collective bargaining, a territory that was completely uncharted six months ago...
April 1, 2011 | Education Next
If the courts want to help out, they should not focus on the budgetary changes. They should focus on the laws and contract provisions that inhibit the provision of high-quality education to the students of New Jersey and New York and the rest of the country...
January 18, 2011 | Education Next
While many people want to be reassured that things are going just fine, ignoring the real message of these tests actually imperils our economic future...
July 12, 2010 | Education Next
Many Americans were shocked to learn how poorly U. S. students were doing when the Program on International Student Assessment (PISA) released its study of math achievement for 2006...
July 1, 2010 | Education Next
Many people find it hard to believe that student performance has been flat for four decades when we have more than tripled funding for schools and when we have put into place a number of reform measures...
Interviews
May 7, 2013 | Education Next
July 26, 2012 | John Batchelor Show
April 14, 2012 | All Things Considered (NPR)
How do you measure who is an effective teacher...
February 28, 2012 | Wall Street Journal TV
Hoover Institute senior fellow Eric Hanushek on why teachers' value-added scores should be made public...
August 29, 2011 | EconTalk
Eric Hanushek of Stanford University's Hoover Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the importance of teacher quality in education...
May 7, 2011 | My Great Kid (WDTW)
Staci and Steve talk to Eric Hanushek, Senior Fellow at Stanford University, discussing teachers, budgets, and improving the classroom environment...
March 8, 2011 | Diane Rehm Show (NPR)
In Wisconsin and many other cash strapped states across the country, teacher lay-offs are expected and class sizes are likely to grow … but not everyone thinks this is necessarily a bad idea. Join us to discuss what’s lost and what isn’t as class sizes expand in the K through 12 years...
March 1, 2011 | NBC Nightly News
Teachers nationwide brace for a wave of layoffs as their school district boards face tough budget decisions. As a result, higher projected classroom sizes have sparked a debate on whether or not student performance will suffer...
January 31, 2011 | Dallas Morning News
Eric Hanushek was one of the participants at the school finance conference that Houston businessman and Education Front guest blogger Charles Miller put together in Austin last week...I asked him to follow up on his thoughts in this Q&A...
January 25, 2011 | Planet Money, NPR
On today's podcast, we consider a plan to dramatically grow the U.S. economy. The plan has nothing to do with banks, stimulus, tax cuts or the Federal Reserve. Instead, the plan focuses entirely on — public school teachers...
November 29, 2010 | Wisconsin Public Radio
For years, poor performance by American students compared to other countries has been explained away as due to our national diversity. After ten, join Kathleen Dunn and her guest for a closer look at academic performance in the U.S...
November 12, 2010 | Mike McConnell (WGN)
Mike takes your calls on the quality of education and welcomes Professor Eric Hanushek of the Hoover Institution Stanford University to enlighten us on the subject...
November 12, 2010 | Patt Morrison (KPCC)
One of the authors of the first-ever comprehensive study comparing U.S. students to students in 56 other countries counts a deep-seated incapacity to bring students up to the highest level of accomplishment in math...
August 27, 2010 | American Public Media
Teachers matter. A lot. Studies show that students with the best teachers learn three times as much as students with the worst teachers. Researchers say the achievement gap between poor children and their higher-income peers could disappear if poor kids got better teachers...
April 22, 2010 | Education Next
How readily can we identify effective teachers? And, perhaps most crucially, what are promising strategies for seeking to increase the number of effective teachers in high-poverty schools and communities...
October 14, 2009 | NBC
U.S. fourth-graders' math scores stall...
August 18, 2009 | Learning Matters
Economists, whether liberal or conservative, don’t think about education the way most educators do, and that’s healthy...
August 10, 2009 | EconTalk
Eric Hanushek of Stanford University's Hoover Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the current state of education and education policy...
April 5, 2011 | Education Next
How much is a good teacher worth...?
January 30, 2011 | Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)
A major focus of K-12 education reform should be placing a highly effective teacher in every classroom...
November 9, 2010 | Education Next
Which countries—and states—are producing high-achieving students...?
January 25, 2010 | Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (France)
Nations around the world seek to improve their schools in order to enhance the skills and employability of their youth or to reduce inequalities in economic outcomes found within their societies. . . .
March 2, 2009 | Princeton University Press
The administration and Congress are attempting to quickly hand out money around the country to stimulate the economy and bring us out of the current recession...
November 29, 2008 | Grand Forks Herald (ND)
Q. You’re a prominent critic of Picus and Associates, the consulting firm that produced a report for the North Dakota Commission on Education Improvement this year...
November 3, 2008 | Learning Matters
The quality of our K-12 education system has an enormous impact on future economic well being...
July 14, 2008 | EconTalk
Eric Hanushek of Stanford University's Hoover Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the strange evolution of school finance in the last four decades...
August 6, 2007 | EconTalk
Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Eric Hanushek talks about his research on the impact of educational quality on economic growth...
