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Hoover's Koret Task Force on K-12 Education timeline, 1998-2014.

Koret Task Force on K-12 Education Reaches Milestone

Friday, February 21, 2014

The year 2014 marks the sixteenth year of work by Hoover’s Koret Task Force on K-12 Education. The eleven-member task force first met in 1999 and established as its mission to present pertinent facts about K–12 education, contribute to the debate with constructive commentary, and generate new ideas for education reform.

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What do experts say about California pension reform?

Thursday, February 20, 2014

The Hoover Institution is pleased to announce the “California Public Pension Solutions” Post-Conference Report.

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Charles W. Calomiris (right) and Stephen H. Haber, authors of "Fragile by Design

Haber and Calomiris release new book, Fragile by Design

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

In a new book by Hoover Institution senior fellow Stephen Haber and Charles Calomiris, Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit, the authors argue that bargains made between politicians, bankers, bank shareholders, depositors, debtors, and taxpayers—as much as economic conditions—lead to banking crises. In their book, they write “the politics we see operating everywhere else around us determines whether societies suffer repeated banking crises … or never suffer banking crises.”

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Thumbnails from PG&E films (clockwise from top left): Ronald Reagan, 1966; Georg

Campaign Speeches by California Political Candidates in the 1960s Now Online

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Fifteen motion picture films of candidates campaigning for major political offices in California's 1962 and 1966 elections are now available on California Light and Sound. Each candidate was filmed as they spoke to Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) employees and answered their questions during the company's nonpartisan lunchtime voter education program.  See the complete list of the digitized films, from the Pacific Gas and Electric Company Motion Picture Film collection, below.

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Podcasts and chartcasts from the Southern California Conference now available

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

The Hoover Institution held its eleventh Southern California Conference on January 30, 2014, in Pasadena.  That conference, part of a series that includes annual programs in both Pasadena and Century City, offered presentations by Hoover fellows on a wide range of public policy issues, from education to Middle East relations to the upcoming elections.  Included here is a selection of podcasts and chartcasts from the conference.

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