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Interviews

Closing the Door on Innovation

with Williamson M. Eversvia School Reform News
Friday, June 10, 2011

Bill Evers, Research Fellow at the Hoover Institute discusses the anti-manifesto: "Closing the Door on Innovation" with School Reform News Managing editor Joy Pullman...

Analysis and Commentary

Independently audit test scores

by Herbert J. Walbergvia Washington Times
Friday, June 10, 2011

Incentives for success give educators, students reason to cheat...

Interviews

Should All US Students Learn the Same Thing?

with Williamson M. Eversvia Voice of America
Wednesday, June 8, 2011

...[O]pponents of national standards call them "one-size-fits-all." They say the idea does not make sense for a country as large and diverse as the United States. One of those opponents is Bill Evers at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in California...

Interviews

Terry Moe on the Ronn Owens Program

with Terry M. Moevia Ronn Owens Program (KGO-AM)
Monday, June 6, 2011
Interviews

Putting the Brakes on National Curriculum, Testing

with Williamson M. Eversvia Education Policy Center
Monday, June 6, 2011

Hoover Institution research fellow and former Assistant Secretary of Education Bill Evers discusses an organized effort he is helping to lead to put a stop to national curriculum and national tests for America’s public K-12 schools...

Analysis and Commentary

Bill Bennett, James Madison, and National Curricular Materials

by Chester E. Finn Jr.via Education Next
Wednesday, May 25, 2011

The big fuss about “national curriculum” has lately slid into an argument about whether the federal government may—and should—have anything to do with “curriculum...

Williamson M. Evers

Bill Evers on the ‘countermanifesto’ against a ‘national curriculum’

via Thoughts on Public Education
Sunday, May 22, 2011

Bill Evers, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and a member of the Institution’s Koret Task Force on K–12 Education, discusses his ideas concerning education and why he is against a national curriculum.

Interviews

Bill Evers on the ‘counter-manifesto’ against a ‘national curriculum’

with Williamson M. Eversvia Thoughts on Public Education
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Tests, Testing, and Genuine School Reform by Herbert J. Walberg
Books

Tests, Testing, and Genuine School Reform

by Herbert J. Walbergvia Hoover Institution Press
Saturday, May 21, 2011

The pressing need to improve achievement in American schools is widely recognized. In Tests, Testing, and Genuine School Reform, Herbert J.

In the News

Stop the War Against Standardized Tests

by Herbert J. Walbergvia Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)
Friday, May 20, 2011

They hold teachers accountable and benefit students. What's not to like...

Pages

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.