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Analysis and Commentary

Stimulating a Race to the Top

by Chester E. Finn Jr., Michael J. Petrillivia Education Week
Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Public education stands to receive some $100 billion from the enormous economic-stimulus package enacted last month by Congress, about one-eighth of the total...

Analysis and Commentary

Obama Gives Failing Schools a Pass

by Chester E. Finn Jr., Michael J. Petrillivia National Review
Thursday, February 26, 2009

President Obama’s address to Congress is earning plaudits for its honesty, candor, and can-do/will-do/must-do spirit...

Analysis and Commentary

Penalizing Schools That Succeed

by Paul E. Petersonvia New York Post
Thursday, February 19, 2009

THE stimulus package will more than double the fed eral money being spent on K-12 education for the next two years...

Analysis and Commentary

Are Hollywood And The Internet Killing Reading?

by Diane Ravitchvia Forbes
Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Nearly five years ago, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) issued an alarming report called "Reading at Risk," which declared that literary reading was in dramatic decline...

Analysis and Commentary

How Caroline Kennedy can best serve the people of New York

by Diane Ravitchvia Daily News (NY)
Thursday, January 29, 2009

Over the past several weeks, New Yorkers have been re-introduced to Caroline Kennedy...

Analysis and Commentary

Will The Recession Kill School Reform?

by Chester E. Finn Jr., Michael J. Petrillivia Forbes
Thursday, January 29, 2009

Few doubt that we're living through profound changes on many fronts...

Paul Peterson, Hoover Institution senior fellow and member of Hoover's Task Force on K–12 Education

Video Commentary with Hoover senior fellow Paul Peterson

with Paul E. Petersonvia Uncommon Knowledge
Thursday, January 29, 2009

In Hoover’s newest web offering, Video Commentary, Paul Peterson, Hoover Institution senior fellow and member of Hoover’s Task Force on K–12 Education, comments on the education stimulus bill now pending in Congress. Video transcript (4:29).

Analysis and Commentary

Video Commentary with Hoover senior fellow Paul Peterson

by Paul E. Petersonvia Hoover Institution
Thursday, January 29, 2009

In Hoover’s newest web offering, Video Commentary, Paul Peterson, Hoover Institution senior fellow and member of Hoover’s Task Force on K–12 Education, comments on the education stimulus bill now pending in Congress...

In the News

What Do We Know About Improving Schools?

by Diane Ravitchvia Education Week
Wednesday, January 21, 2009

You are undoubtedly right that what we have been calling “reform” is not producing better educated young people...

Analysis and Commentary

School spending soars but lacks proper incentives

by Eric Hanushekvia Kansas City Star
Sunday, January 18, 2009

Nobody doubts the need to improve our schools...

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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.