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...
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...
by Eric Hanushek (Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow in Education and member of the K–12 Education Task Force)
Schools will not improve until there are greater incentives for improving student achievement. Redistributing funds across schools or increasing the funding to schools by themselves will not magically put us on this path...
by Williamson M. Evers (Research Fellow and member of the K–12 Education Task Force)
This Council on Foreign Relations proposal sounds like a much more ambitious re-run of the federal foray into K-12 education after the launching of Sputnik back on Oct. 4, 1957...
The Common Core State Standards Initiative landed in our midst with four great assets...Ever since it landed, however, the Common Core has been the object of ceaseless attacks from multiple directions...
I’m a huge fan of high-quality liberal-arts education for everybody and really do think it would go far to prepare better citizens, neighbors, and consumer/transmitters of America’s cultural heritage and democratic underpinnings...
