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Perspectives on 2018

Friday, December 21, 2018
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In 2018, the United States faced many issues at home and abroad: immigration, trade, Supreme Court justices, health care reform and Medicare for All (M4A), socialism, entitlement spending, the Middle East, Russia, North Korea, China, and the midterm elections, as well as infrastructure, deficits and debt, and tax reform. Throughout it all, in publications across the country, Hoover fellows offered their solid, creative, thoughtful, and scholarly insight, ideas, and policy recommendations. Here is a selection of their work.

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Notable Events in 2018

Friday, December 21, 2018
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The breadth and depth of Hoover Institution scholarship is reflected in the many events put on by the Hoover Institution on a broad variety of topics and issues.

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Featured Books 2018

Friday, December 21, 2018
Stanford

The depth of Hoover’s scholarship is reflected in the numerous books published by our fellows on a broad variety of topics and issues. This timely and prodigious output offers insight on the most pressing issues in public policy.

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Featured Podcast Episodes 2018

Friday, December 21, 2018

As the end of 2018 draws near, we look back at a busy year of podcasting at the Hoover Institution.

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Hoover Institution in Washington DC: Top Ten in 2018

Friday, December 21, 2018
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The Hoover Institution in Washington, the institution’s education and outreach arm located blocks from the White House, provides Hoover fellows with a platform in national policy discussions and serves as one of Washington’s preeminent information centers.

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Education Next: New Study Debunks Myth about Special Education Costs

Monday, March 5, 2007
Stanford

A new study published in the spring 2007 issue of Education Next refutes claims that rising special education costs are draining resources from nondisabled public education students. In particular, research carried out by the University of Arkansas’s Jay P. Greene and Marcus A. Winters shows that, contrary to recent media reports, placing special education students in private schools at public expense is not causing undue harm to public school budgets.

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Education Next: With Fewer Nuns and More Competition, Catholic Schools Find New Ways to Fight Declining Enrollments

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

A new report in the spring 2007 issue of Education Next finds that dramatic changes in the composition of teaching staff as well as competition from public charter schools have contributed to enrollment declines and rising tuition costs in Catholic schools in the United States despite their history of strong educational achievement. Faced with a new educational landscape, many Catholic schools are trying innovative tactics to deal with the challenges.

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Hoover research fellow Bill Evers nominated to be U.S. assistant secretary of education

Thursday, February 8, 2007

President George W. Bush today nominated Williamson M. “Bill” Evers, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and a member of its Koret Task Force on K¬¬ – 12 Education, to be U. S. assistant secretary of education for planning, evaluation and policy development.

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California Declares January 29 Milton Friedman Day

Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Stanford

California governor Arnold Schwarznegger has announced that January 29, 2007, has been declared “Milton Friedman Day” in the State of California.

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Hoover Library and Archives Present “Sharply Drawn: The Political Cartoons of Louis Raemaekers: 1914–1941”

Monday, January 22, 2007

Political cartooning has always been fraught with controversy and even danger; today’s cartoonists are not the first to have their work condemned.

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