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July 18, 2012 | Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)
May 31, 2012 | Wall Street Journal
The substitution of technology (which is cheap) for labor (which is expensive) can vastly increase access to an elite-caliber education...
July 18, 2011 | Wall Street Journal
Online learning means fewer teachers (and union members) per student...
November 24, 2008 | Wall Street Journal
Can Barack Obama bring change to American education?...
October 31, 2006 | Wall Street Journal
The Department of Education recently announced its first grants in a new $94-million program to fund incentive-pay plans for teachers...
July 18, 2006 | Stanford Magazine
Debate about the state of U.S. public schools heated up with the passage of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 2001, better known as No Child Left Behind…
October 13, 2004
The HOUSSE provisions create a loophole big enough to drive three million veteran teachers through—and the states have incentives to do just that.
September 11, 2000
Teachers unions have more influence on the public schools than any other groups in American society.
Blogs
June 14, 2011 | Liberating Learning
You’d think that California, the home of Silicon Valley, would be at the forefront of the movement to harness technology in boosting K-12 education. But nothing could be further from the truth...
April 21, 2011 | Futures of School Reform (Education Week)
You needn't be a free-market fanatic to recognize that choice and competition, when properly designed and regulated, have much to contribute--more options for families, stronger incentives for schools, greater potential for dynamism and innovation...
Interviews
September 25, 2012 | Wall Street Journal Live
September 6, 2011 | Between the Covers (National Review Online)
"Teachers join unions to protect their jobs and to promote their occupational interests, and these interests are not the same as the interests of children...all these things are supported by teachers because they affect and threaten their jobs," says Terry Moe...
August 4, 2011 | Brian Wilson and the Afternoon Drive (WSPD)
Brian discusses "Teacher’s Unions and America’s Public Schools" with the author, Dr. Terry Moe...
August 3, 2011 | Fox Business
Hoover Institute Senior Fellow Terry Moe on reforming unions...
August 2, 2011 | Education Next
Mike Petrilli talks with Moe about the book, the union’s rise to power, their influence on all facets of our education system, and whether changes within Democratic Party politics—and the emergence of online learning—create existential threats to these organizations...
July 21, 2011 | Brian Wilson and the Afternoon Drive (WSPD)
Brian talks to Dr. Terry Moe of the Hoover Institution on Teachers Unions and what they do to the public trust...
July 20, 2011 | Hancock & Kelley (KMOX-AM)
In his Wall Street Journal article, “The Internet Will Reduce Teachers Union power”, Stanford University Professor Terry Moe, author of “Special Interest”, says typical children will go to school, but take their courses online...
June 6, 2011 | Ronn Owens Program (KGO-AM)
April 17, 2011 | John Batchelor Show
GUESTS: Terry Moe, Hoover Institution, in re: what's wrong with the public schools? Teachers' unions...?
January 19, 2010 | InsiderOnline (Heritage Foundation)
At the risk of making technological marvels sound like magic potions, a very good case can be made —or more precisely, Terry Moe and John Chubb have made it in their very good book—that the most potent force for fundamentally changing such patterns of mediocrity and worse is higher and higher technology, as it can accomplish what politics and bureaucracies are encoded to block. . . .
October 22, 2009 | Education Week
The folks at Stanford University's Hoover Institution recently interviewed Terry Moe, a professor of political science for Stanford and an advocate for online learning, about his new book Liberating Learning...
October 2, 2009 | Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)
Hoover's working groups and task forces produce contemporary material on subjects ranging from global economic issues to national security and from energy policy to education...
March 12, 2009 | Hoover Institution
Hoover Institution senior fellows and members of Hoover’s Task Force on K–12 Education Terry Moe and Paul Peterson comment on the controversy surrounding the likely termination of the Washington, D.C., voucher program...
February 17, 2009 | Education Week
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