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September 27, 2012
Hoover Press to release John Chubb’s book on how to get the best teachers
John Chubb, a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, a member of Hoover’s Koret Task Force on K–12 Education, and interim CEO of Education Sector, has written The Best Teachers in the World: Why We Don’t Have Them and How We Could, which will be released on October 10, 2012. In the book, Chubb argues that student achievement in the United States could rise to levels comparable to the best nations in the world if we could improve teacher quality.
September 17, 2012
Kirkus reviews Hoover fellow Chester E. Finn and Jessica Hockett’s upcoming book Exam Schools
Chester E. Finn Jr., a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and chairman of Hoover’s Koret Task Force on K–12 Education, and coauthor Jessica A. Hockett, an education consultant specializing in differentiated instruction, curriculum design, and lesson study, collaborated to produce Exam Schools: Inside America’s Most Selective Public High Schools, which is due out in October 2012. In the book the authors examine how academically selective public high schools work and what is their important role in teaching the country’s brightest students. Exam Schools is a Koret Task Force on K–12 Education study.
August 20, 2012
Webcast examines options for high-performing students
The plight of low-performing students dominates our education news and policy discussions. Yet America’s high flyers also demand innovative, rigorous schooling, particularly if the country is to sharpen its economic and scientific edge.
On August 24 at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute in Washington, DC, Hoover Institution senior fellow Chester Finn and Jessica Hockett discussed how motivated, high-ability youngsters can be served in myriad ways by public education, including schools that specialize in them. This is the focus of their new book from Princeton University Press, Exam Schools: Inside America’s Most Selective Public High Schools. In the book, the coauthors identify 165 such high schools across the United States.
June 12, 2012 | Minnesota Public Radio
Petrilli discusses how new common core standards are changing US education
Mike Petrilli, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, discusses the profound change in educational standards and assessments that is quietly under way. By 2014, almost every state in the country will have the same demanding standards for what students need to know before they graduate from high school.
May 24, 2012 | Education Next
The Romney Education Plan
Replacing Federal Overreach on Accountability with Federal Overreach on School Choice...
May 24, 2012 | Wall Street Journal TV
Petrilli discusses Romney’s education reforms on Wall Street Journal TV
Mike Petrilli, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he specializes in education policy studies, discusses Mitt Romney's education reform proposals.
May 8, 2012 | Education Next
A States’ Rights Insurrection Led by…California?
Three cheers for California’s governor, state superintendent, and state board chair, for applying for a waiver from the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (aka No Child Left Behind) that doesn’t kowtow to Washington...
April 6, 2012 | Washington Times
Obama’s education grade left behind by Bush’s
President funneled money to teachers’ salaries rather than teaching success...
March 6, 2012 | PBS NewsHour
Finn discusses whether minority students face harsher discipline on PBS’s NewsHour
Chester E. Finn Jr., a senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution and chairman of Hoover’s Koret Task Force on K–12 Education, discusses the education department's Office of Civil Rights’ report showing that black and Hispanic students are more likely to be suspended than white students.
March 1, 2012
Hill steps down as director of Center on Reinventing Public Education
Paul Hill, a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, a member of the Koret Task Force on K–12 Education, and founder of the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE), stepped down today, March 1, 2012, as CRPE’s director. He named his longtime colleague Robin Lake as his successor.