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Eric A. Hanushek

Performance-Based Funding

by Eric Hanushek, Alfred Lindsethvia Defining Ideas
Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Public school spending per pupil has nearly quadrupled since 1960 while achievement has remained largely flat.

Chester E. Finn Jr.

Reroute the Preschool Juggernaut

by Chester E. Finn Jr.via Defining Ideas
Saturday, June 6, 2009

Universal preschool education is not the solution to America’s long-standing education achievement gaps.

In the News

Video Commentary with Hoover senior fellow Eric Hanushek

with Eric Hanushek, Terry M. Moevia Hoover Institution
Friday, June 5, 2009

Hoover Institution senior fellows and members of Hoover’s Task Force on K–12 Education Eric Hanushek and Terry Moe discuss Hanushek’s new book Schoolhouses, Courthouses, and Statehouses...

In the News

Video Commentary with Hoover senior fellows Terry Moe and Eric Hanushek

with Eric Hanushek, Terry M. Moevia Hoover Institution
Friday, June 5, 2009

Hoover Institution senior fellows and members of Hoover’s Task Force on K–12 Education Terry Moe and Eric Hanushek discuss Moe’s new book Liberating Learning...

In the News

Declaring Educational Bankruptcy

by Chester E. Finn Jr.via Corner (National Review Online)
Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Turning around bad schools is harder than turning around Chrysler, GM, or AIG — but our fearless new federal administration seems bent on doing this, too...

Analysis and Commentary

Say No to Universal Preschool

by Chester E. Finn Jr.via New York Post
Sunday, May 31, 2009

It's easy to assume that government-financed preschool would do much to cure what ails American education if only it were provided to everybody...

Analysis and Commentary

Slow the Preschool Bandwagon

by Chester E. Finn Jr.via Washington Post
Friday, May 15, 2009

President Obama has pledged to spend $10 billion more a year on "zero to five" education, and his 2010 budget makes a $2 billion "down payment" on that commitment...

Analysis and Commentary

Our Government, For Better Or Worse

by Chester E. Finn Jr.via Forbes
Thursday, May 14, 2009

Ever since I came into contact with government, both state and federal, and especially in the four decades since first going to work in it, I've been struck by the gap between what many Americans expect of government and what it's actually good at doing...

cover image for Reroute the Preschool Juggernaut by Chester E. Finn, Jr.

Reroute the Preschool Juggernaut

by Chester E. Finn Jr.via Books by Hoover Fellows
Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Pre-kindergarten is one of the hottest topics in American education in 2009: Which children really need it? How many aren’t getting it? Who should provide it—and at whose expense? What’s the right balance between socialization and systematic instruction? Between education and child care? Where does Head Start fit in? What are reliable markers of quality in preschool programs? And much, much more.

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What We Learn From School Tests

by Williamson M. Eversvia New York Times
Tuesday, April 28, 2009

There are strategies for success that don’t require large amounts of money, but do require using resources more productively...

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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

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Senior Fellow
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Distinguished Visiting Fellow
Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow in Education
Distinguished Visiting Fellow
Senior Fellow
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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.