Significant gifts for the support of this task force are acknowledged from
- Koret Foundation
- Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
- Mrs. Edmund W. Littlefield
- Bernard Lee Schwartz Foundation, Inc.
- Tad and Dianne Taube
Taube Family Foundation
The K–12 Education Task Force focuses on education policy as it relates to government provision and oversight versus private solutions (both within and outside the public school system) that stress choice, accountability, and transparency; that include systematic reform options such as vouchers, charter schools, and testing; and that weigh equity concerns against outcome objectives. Its collaborative efforts spawned a quarterly journal titled Education Next, one of the premier publications on public education research policy in the nation.
Chester E. Finn, Jr. serves as chair of the Task Force on K–12 education.
News and Commentary
May 22, 2012 | Election 2012 (Washington Post)
May 17, 2012 | Education Next
Students learn principally through interactions with people (teachers and peers) and instructional materials (textbooks, workbooks, instructional software, web-based content, homework, projects, quizzes, and tests)...
May 14, 2012 | National Journal Expert Blog: Education
In truth, states are perfectly capable of deciding for themselves whether the Common Core is the way to go in English and math standards. It's VOLUNTARY...
May 13, 2012 | NJ Voices Guest Blog (NJ.com)
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Herbert J. Walberg (Distinguished Visiting Fellow and member of the K–12 Education Task Force) and
David V. Anderson
With its proposed testing program, New Jersey is making a good start. Does it have the courage to plow ahead? It won’t be easy...
May 9, 2012 | Education Next
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Eric Hanushek (Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow in Education and member of the K–12 Education Task Force)
All of the intense pushing and shoving about the Common Core leaves one simple question: should we care?...
Featured Op-eds
May 20, 2012 | Baltimore Sun
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Herbert J. Walberg (Distinguished Visiting Fellow and member of the K–12 Education Task Force)
Social promotion, testing conflicts of interest sap the value of a diploma...
May 16, 2012 | Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)
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John E. Chubb (Distinguished Visiting Fellow and member of the K–12 Education Task Force)
Or, how technology will fundamentally reverse the course of our failing public schools...
May 1, 2012 | Wall Street Journal
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George P. Shultz (Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow; Chair, Energy Policy Task Force; and member of the Working Group on Economic Policy) and
Eric Hanushek (Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow in Education and member of the K–12 Education Task Force)
If we fail to reform K-12 schools, we'll have slow growth and more income inequality...
April 6, 2012 | Washington Times
President funneled money to teachers’ salaries rather than teaching success...
April 4, 2012 | Atlantic
Under the current system, educational leaders have all of the responsibility but none of the power. Allowing principals to act like CEOs may foster a more efficient system...
