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July 2, 2009
New Education Next Forum: Is There a Connection between School Spending and Student Achievement? Should Courts Decide?
U. S. Supreme Court decision puts issue on front burner for states. Read the full article, Many Schools Are Still Inadequate, by Eric Hanushek, Alfred Lindseth and Michael Rebell.

July 1, 2009
New List of 206 Tapes in Milton Friedman’s Economics Cassette Series
A list of programs in Milton Friedman’s extensive Economics Cassette Series (ECS), 1969–78, is now available (click here and then scroll down to box 103).

June 25, 2009
Hoover Institution Library and Archives Exhibition A Revolutionary Idea: Hoover Making History since 1919
The Hoover Institution is marking the ninetieth anniversary of its founding with an exhibit titled A Revolutionary Idea: Hoover Making History since 1919. The exhibit opens on June 30, 2009

June 24, 2009
Newly Digitized Sound Recordings in the Christopher T. Emmet Jr. Papers
Listening copies of all recordings on lacquer discs in the Emmet papers, 1913–1974, are now available in the Hoover Archives reading room. A list of the newly digitized recordings is also available.

June 23, 2009
Task Force on Energy Policy
The Hoover Institution’s Task Force on Energy Policy met at the Hoover Institution on June 23. Task force members discussed “A Primer on Synthetic Biology: An Emerging Paradigm of Genetic Engineering,” as well as energy efficiency, distributed energy, and the paper “Past Must Not Be Prologue.”

June 22, 2009
The Road Ahead for the Fed, by George Shultz, Allan Meltzer, Peter Fisher, Donald Kohn, James Hamilton, John Taylor, Myron Scholes, Darrell Duffie, Andrew Crockett, Michael Halloran, Richard Herring, and John Ciorciari
In this new book, The Road Ahead for the Fed (Hoover Press, 2009), coeditors John B. Taylor and John D. Ciorciari bring together twelve leading experts to examine and debate proposals for financial reform and exit strategies from the financial crisis.

June 22, 2009
Hoover Fellow Morris P. Fiorina Honored by the American Academy of Political and Social Science
Morris P. Fiorina, Hoover senior fellow, has been named the 2009 Harold Lasswell Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS) at a ceremony held at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. on May 7, 2009.

June 17, 2009
Finding Aid to the Firing Line Broadcast Records Posted Online
A guide to the paper documents in the Firing Line broadcast collection is available online.

June 16, 2009
Schoolhouses, Courthouses, and Statehouses
Video commentary with Hoover senior fellows Eric Hanushek and Terry Moe

June 12, 2009
Estonian president visits the Hoover Institution
Estonian president Toomas Ilves visited the Hoover Institution Library and Archives on Thursday, June 11. During a presentation in the archives, he was shown materials from the Estonian collections...

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