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Hoover Daily Report by topic: Teaching and Learning

August 2, 2012 | Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)

Let’s Pay Students to Learn

April 20, 2012 | Education Next

Stretching the School-District Dollar

Despite some signs of economic recovery, school districts nationwide continue to struggle mightily...
November 2, 2011 | Freedom Politics

Evaluate teachers on how much students have learned

On Tuesday, Nov. 1, a group of parents and taxpayers sued the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) to make the district follow the law, by evaluating teachers based on how much their students have learned...
October 17, 2011 | Education Next

Jeb Bush, Melinda Gates, Sal Khan and the Coming Digital Learning Battle

The debate over digital learning will soon enter a new phase...we can expect a strenuous, highly politicized debate over the way in which digital learning should be provided...
October 14, 2011 | Huffington Post

Accountability's End?

If the debate around the federal role in accountability is coalescing, a much bigger question remains wide open: Could we be watching the beginning of the end for the accountability movement in toto...?
July 21, 2011 | Education Next

This Glass is Half-Empty, Maybe Two-Thirds

...[O]ur kids on average are woefully lacking in essential skills and knowledge across every subject in the curriculum...
June 10, 2011 | Washington Times

Independently audit test scores

Incentives for success give educators, students reason to cheat...
January 30, 2011 | Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)

Why Is It So Hard To Make Teachers Better?

A major focus of K-12 education reform should be placing a highly effective teacher in every classroom...
January 28, 2011 | Education Week (subscription required)

Flaws in a Less Rigorous Education 'Dashboard'

The Obama administration's new online education dashboard highlights the wrong data, and too much of it—giving the public a less than-succinct summary of school and student performance..
January 25, 2011 | Education Next

Translating the State of the Union Address

The following is an interpretative translation of what the President really had to say about American education...