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In the News

What Did the NAEP Scores Mean?

by Diane Ravitchvia Education Week
Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Welcome home from Russia!

In the News

Democracy Rests on Disagreements

by Diane Ravitchvia Education Week
Tuesday, October 16, 2007

I agree with you about the uncertainty involved in medicine...

In the News

Leave no (none, zero, nada) child behind?

by Chester E. Finn Jr.via Education Gadfly
Thursday, October 11, 2007

Passed by Congress in late 2001 and signed by President George W. Bush one year after his inauguration, the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is the most ambitious federal education statute ever...

In the News

The Regulated Lives of Teachers

by Diane Ravitchvia Education Week
Tuesday, October 9, 2007

No, I don't think the dilemmas you describe are as omnipresent in all of life's vocations as they are in teaching...

Analysis and Commentary

Dumbing Education Down

by Chester E. Finn Jr.via Wall Street Journal
Friday, October 5, 2007

President George W. Bush's signature education reform -- the No Child Left Behind Act -- is coming in for a close inspection in Congress...

Analysis and Commentary

Get Congress Out of the Classroom

by Diane Ravitchvia New York Times
Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Despite the rosy claims of the Bush administration, the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 is fundamentally flawed...

In the News

In Defense of Judgment

by Diane Ravitchvia Education Week
Tuesday, October 2, 2007

It's no big surprise that "standards" involve judgments...

Analysis and Commentary

New York State Test Scores: Who to Believe?

by Diane Ravitchvia City Journal
Friday, September 28, 2007

The release of national test scores in reading and math on September 25 was an embarrassment for the New York State Education Department...

In the News

Why We Need National Testing

by Diane Ravitchvia Education Week
Tuesday, September 25, 2007

You make some good points about the distinction between norm-referenced tests and criterion-referenced tests, but I disagree with your characterization of the latter...

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The Proper Goal of Schooling

by Diane Ravitchvia Education Week
Monday, September 17, 2007

I don’t think you should worry at all about annoying those “with more power” than you...

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The K-12 Education Koret Task Force is no longer active as of December 2014.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.