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Analysis and Commentary

The End of Teachers Unions

by Terry M. Moevia Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Analysis and Commentary

Running in Place

by Paul E. Petersonvia Education Next
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
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The End of Teachers Unions

by Terry M. Moevia Defining Ideas
Wednesday, July 18, 2012

In the next two decades, their political power will wane, and America will finally achieve meaningful K-12 reform.

Analysis and Commentary

When It Comes to Student Achievement, States are Changing Big Time

by Paul E. Petersonvia Education Next
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Interviews

Bill Evers on the Rod Arquette Show (at 1:15:32)

with Williamson M. Eversvia Rod Arquette Show (KNRS)
Monday, July 9, 2012
Analysis and Commentary

Rigorous National Standards: Necessary but Not Sufficient

by Chester E. Finn Jr.via Education Next
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Analysis and Commentary

Should All U.S. Students Meet a Single Set of National Proficiency Standards?

by Chester E. Finn Jr.via Wall Street Journal
Monday, June 25, 2012

Yes, says education expert Chester E. Finn Jr., because it will ensure that students have the skills they need to compete globally...

Analysis and Commentary

Disruptive Innovation and Independent Public Schools

by Chester E. Finn Jr.via Education Next
Friday, June 22, 2012

[Clayton] Christensen and colleagues don’t suggest that [our K-12 education system is] going out of business but they do say it will be transformed by a pair of disruptive innovations: technology (online learning, in particular) and a shift to “student-centric” learning...

Analysis and Commentary

‘Vouchers Unspoken,’ Predictable—But Unproductive

by John E. Chubbvia Education Next
Monday, June 18, 2012

In the long run, education is the key to our troubled economy. But, if new ideas are immediately subject to caricature and politicization, we won’t be hearing many of them...

Analysis and Commentary

In Remembrance of Elinor Ostrom: the political scientist who won the Nobel prize in economics

by Paul E. Petersonvia Education Next
Thursday, June 14, 2012

I cannot better express my appreciation for her life and work than by re-posting what I said at the time she became the first woman–and the first political scientist–to win the Nobel prize in economics...

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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.