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Interviews

Hanushek on Teachers

by Russ Roberts with Eric Hanushekvia EconTalk
Monday, August 29, 2011

Eric Hanushek of Stanford University's Hoover Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the importance of teacher quality in education...

Analysis and Commentary

Why Can't American Students Compete?

by Eric Hanushek, Paul E. Petersonvia Newsweek
Sunday, August 28, 2011

...32 percent of U.S. public and private-school students in the class of 2011 are deemed proficient in mathematics, placing the United States 32nd among the 65 nations that participated in the latest international tests administered by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)...

Analysis and Commentary

A Year Late and a Million (?) Dollars Long—the U. S. Proficiency Standards Report

by Paul E. Petersonvia Education Next
Monday, August 22, 2011

The U. S. government just provided the public with much the same information Education Next (Ednext) shared with readers a year ago: A comparison of state standards in reading and math at the 4th and 8th grade levels...

Analysis and Commentary

Up With Teachers, Not So Much With Unions

by Chester E. Finn Jr.via Education Next
Friday, August 19, 2011

Over the next couple of weeks, youngsters across the land will strap on their SpongeBob backpacks and lace up their new Converses...

Hoover senior fellows Paul Peterson (left) and Eric Hanushek

United States schools fail international competition

with Eric Hanushek, Paul E. Petersonvia Hoover Videos
Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Hoover senior fellows and members of the Koret Task Force on K–12 Education Eric Hanushek and Paul Peterson describe how the United States compares to developed countries of the world in math achievement. On average US students place 32nd in the world in math, following Portugal. The best state, Massachusetts, is only 9th in the world; the most populous state (California) comes in 37th. (5:59)

Analysis and Commentary

With a Math Proficiency Rate of 32 Percent, U.S. Ranks Number 32

by Paul E. Petersonvia Education Next
Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Thirty-two percent of U.S. students in the class of 2011 were proficient in mathematics when they were in 8th grade, according to the official U. S. report card on student achievement...

In the News

Arguing With Success

with Caroline M. Hoxbyvia Wall Street Journal
Tuesday, August 9, 2011

We write frequently about the charter-school wars in New York City because the battle touches so many aspects of the effort to give children from poor families the education necessary to escape their circumstances.

Hoover senior fellows Paul Peterson (left) and Eric Hanushek

Should California close its schools?

with Eric Hanushek, Paul E. Petersonvia Hoover Videos
Monday, August 8, 2011

Hoover senior fellows and members of the Koret Task Force on K–12 Education Eric 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)

Williamson M. Evers

Federal education policy with former assistant secretary of education Bill Evers on Reason TV.

via Reason.tv
Monday, August 8, 2011

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.

Interviews

Federal Education Policy with Former Assistant Secretary of Education Bill Evers

with Williamson M. Eversvia Reason.tv
Monday, August 8, 2011

Does the Obama Administration want to create a national education policy akin to France's Ministry of Education? According to Bill Evers, Former US Assistant Secretary of Education and current Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, that is exactly what they are attempting to do...

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The K-12 Education Koret Task Force is no longer active as of December 2014. This page will not be updated with future posts.

Koret Task Force Timeline 1998-2014

Chair
Senior Fellow
Participants
Distinguished Visiting Fellow
Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow in Education
Distinguished Visiting Fellow
Senior Fellow
Senior Fellow
Senior Fellow

The K–12 Education Task Force focuses on education policy as it relates to government provision and oversight versus private solutions (both within and outside the public school system) that stress choice, accountability, and transparency; that include systematic reform options such as vouchers, charter schools, and testing; and that weigh equity concerns against outcome objectives.

Its collaborative efforts spawned a quarterly journal titled Education Next, one of the premier publications on public education research policy in the nation.

Chester E. Finn, Jr. serves as chair of the Task Force on K–12 education.