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Analysis and Commentary

Choosing Blindly

by Grover J. Whitehurstvia Education Next
Thursday, May 17, 2012

Students learn principally through interactions with people (teachers and peers) and instructional materials (textbooks, workbooks, instructional software, web-based content, homework, projects, quizzes, and tests)...

In the News

A Philadelphia Story

by John E. Chubbvia Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)
Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Or, how technology will fundamentally reverse the course of our failing public schools...

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A Philadelphia Story

by John E. Chubbvia Defining Ideas
Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Or, how technology will fundamentally reverse the course of our failing public schools.

Analysis and Commentary

Hey Guys, Common Core Is Voluntary

by Chester E. Finn Jr.via National Journal Expert Blog: Education
Monday, May 14, 2012

In truth, states are perfectly capable of deciding for themselves whether the Common Core is the way to go in English and math standards. It's VOLUNTARY...

Analysis and Commentary

Raise standards, eliminate cheating from school tests

by Herbert J. Walberg, David V. Andersonvia NJ Voices Guest Blog (NJ.com)
Sunday, May 13, 2012

With its proposed testing program, New Jersey is making a good start. Does it have the courage to plow ahead? It won’t be easy...

Analysis and Commentary

Is the Common Core Just a Distraction?

by Eric Hanushekvia Education Next
Wednesday, May 9, 2012

All of the intense pushing and shoving about the Common Core leaves one simple question: should we care?...

Analysis and Commentary

Dumbing Down the GPA: It’s the Unsophisticated Bright Kid who Suffers

by Paul E. Petersonvia Education Next
Monday, May 7, 2012

It is not the under-achieving students in urban centers who perpetuate the ongoing crisis in American education...The threats come from the mindless educational potentates who have captured control of the best public schools in the country...

Analysis and Commentary

Education Is the Key to a Healthy Economy

by George P. Shultz, Eric Hanushekvia Wall Street Journal
Tuesday, May 1, 2012

If we fail to reform K-12 schools, we'll have slow growth and more income inequality...

Analysis and Commentary

Will Stanford Join the Digital Learning World?

by Paul E. Petersonvia Education Next
Monday, April 23, 2012

The idea of a second campus on the East Coast was always a distraction. Why not take that same pot of gold—or, more exactly, a handful or two out of that pot—and start building a digital university for the ages...

Analysis and Commentary

Spring Break Is Here: Can I get my unemployement insurance check?

by Paul E. Petersonvia Education Next
Friday, April 20, 2012

Did you know that school bus drivers and cafeteria workers file unemployment claims whenever schools take a vacation break...

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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.