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American Educational Institutions and Academic Performance
May 8, 2008
Hoover Institution Press: Communicating with the World of Islam, Edited by A. Ross Johnson, Principal Report by George P. Shultz
How can the United States more effectively counter terrorism, promote democracy, and improve its image in predominantly Islamic countries and communities?
May 1, 2008
Hoover Institution Press: Looking Backward and Forward, by Charles Wolf Jr.
Looking Backward and Forward: Policy Issues in the Twenty-first Century (Hoover Institution Press, 2008) is a collection of twenty–five essays written by Hoover senior research fellow Charles Wolf Jr. between 2002 and early 2007.
April 28, 2008
Hoover Institution News Release: Americans Vastly Underestimate Spending on Schools and Teacher Salaries, Survey Finds
Do Americans have an accurate grasp of how much is currently being spent on public education?
April 24, 2008
Hoover Institution News Release: Hoover Institution Library and Archives Open Exhibit Highlighting the Role of Soviet Dissidents and Their Supporters in the West
The Hoover Institution Library and Archives exhibition To Choose Freedom: Soviet Dissidents and Their Supporters offers a glimpse into the era of repression against Soviet human rights activists, focusing on the years that followed Khrushchev’s “thaw” in the late 1950s up through the era of perestroika and glasnost in the 1980s.
February 19, 2008
Hoover Institution News Release: School Reform over 40 years: Checker Finn reveals in Troublemaker what’s worked (or not) -- and why
For four decades, Chester E. Finn, Jr. has held an “insider’s seat” on America’s school-reform movement.
June 1, 2006
Hoover Senior Fellow Eric Hanushek Named to Membership in National Academy of Education
Eric A. Hanushek, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University, is one of three pioneers in educational research and policy development chosen for membership in the National Academy of Education.
May 25, 2006
Students Achieve More with Teachers Who Take Personal Responsibility for Student Learning
Teachers who take personal responsibility for student learning can improve student achievement, according to Laura LoGerfo, an education researcher at the Urban Institute.
May 23, 2006
How Do Your State's Math and Reading Standards Measure up?
Once again, Education Next editors Paul E. Peterson and Frederick M. Hess have taken out their green shades to grade states’ standards. In their latest assessment, they use objective information to find out which states are currently setting high educational standards and which are not.