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Analysis and Commentary

No Child Gets Ahead

by Chester E. Finn Jr., Michael J. Petrillivia National Review Online
Thursday, June 19, 2008

In his seminal 1961 book, Excellence, John W. Gardner posed the question, “can we be equal and excellent too?”...

In the News

What Good are Tests?

by Diane Ravitchvia Education Week
Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Tests inevitably gauge a student’s fund of knowledge and experience, not just what was taught in school...

In the News

IQ Testing in Historical Perspective

by Diane Ravitch with Education Nextvia Education Week
Tuesday, May 20, 2008

When I first read Murray and Herrnstein’s "The Bell Curve," I was unpersuaded...

Analysis and Commentary

The Education Industrial Complex

by Paul E. Peterson with Eric Hanushek, Education Nextvia New York Sun
Friday, May 9, 2008

The latest international test results in math and science show America trailing the average international score...

In the News

What Finland's Example Proves

by Diane Ravitchvia Education Week
Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Time to disagree...

Analysis and Commentary

The Delusion of Accountability

by Diane Ravitchvia Gotham Gazette
Monday, May 5, 2008

In the six years since Mayor Michael Bloomberg won control of the city's public schools, installed Joel Klein as chancellor and instituted sweeping changes, teachers, parents and other New Yorkers have differed sharply over the city's education policies and their effects on more than one million students...

Analysis and Commentary

The End of School Finance As We Know It

by Paul T. Hillvia Education Week
Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Since the late 1960s, school finance has been a field unto itself. But the past may give clues to a much different future...

In the News

Is Finland the Answer?

by Diane Ravitchvia Education Week
Tuesday, April 29, 2008

As you know, Americans have a long history of looking to other countries for answers to our educational problems...

Analysis and Commentary

Twenty-Five Years Later, A Nation Still at Risk

by Chester E. Finn Jr.via Wall Street Journal
Saturday, April 26, 2008

Today marks the 25th anniversary of "A Nation at Risk," the influential Reagan-era report by a blue-ribbon panel that alerted Americans to the weak performance of our education system...

In the News

What Should Happen in Our Houses of Learning?

by Diane Ravitchvia Education Week
Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Well, we do disagree about what should happen in “our houses of learning.”...

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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.