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 16, 2012 | Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)
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...
by Paul E. Peterson (Senior Fellow and member of the K–12 Education Task Force)
It is not the under-achieving students in urban centers who perpetuate the ongoing crisis in American education...The threats come from the mindless educational potentates who have captured control of the best public schools in the country...
by 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...
by Paul E. Peterson (Senior Fellow and member of the K–12 Education Task Force)
The idea of a second campus on the East Coast was always a distraction. Why not take that same pot of gold—or, more exactly, a handful or two out of that pot—and start building a digital university for the ages...
