Hoover senior fellows and members of the Koret Task Force on K–12 EducationEric Hanushek and Paul Peterson label California's answer to the potential cuts in school funding—reducing the school year—as the worst possible policy. Hanushek and Peterson note that eliminating bad teachers could improve schools by ensuring a good teacher for everyone. (5:35)
Bill Evers, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and a member of the Institution’s Koret Task Force on K–12 Education, worries that the Obama administration wants to create a national education policy akin to France's Ministry of Education.
Charles Blahous, a Hoover research fellow currently serving as one of the two public trustees for the Social Security and Medicare Programs, discusses the role of the public trustee and the solvency of the two entitlement programs.
Terry Moe, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a member of the Institution's Koret Task Force on K–12 Education, discusses ways to reform unions and how changes can be made to future union benefits.
John Taylor, the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution and the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University, explains why he thinks a lot was accomplished in the debt negotiations and why the deal will be successful in getting the US economy moving again.
John Taylor, the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution and the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University, discusses the economy, unemployment, regulations, the effect of the stimulus money, and the possible consequences of the agreement to raise the US debt ceiling and cut spending.
John Taylor, the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution and the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University, discusses the bipartisan agreement to raise the US debt ceiling and cut spending on PBS’s NewsHour.
Michael Spence, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Philip H. Knight Professor Emeritus of Management in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, discusses the outlook for a political resolution to Italy's debt woes. Spence also discusses the US debt-ceiling debate and the country's credit rating with Maryam Nemazee on Bloomberg Television's The Pulse.
Michael Spence, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Philip H. Knight Professor Emeritus of Management in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, discusses the ongoing negotiations to raise the US debt ceiling.
