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Analysis and Commentary

Why Most People Do Their Yoga at Home

by Paul E. Petersonvia Education Next
Thursday, April 19, 2012

According to Matthew Yglesias, quite a few people are making the effort to go to yoga classes when “it would clearly be cheaper and more convenient to just unroll your yoga mat in your living room and work out while watching yoga videos...

School Buses
Analysis and Commentary

The Paradox of Public Education

by Paul T. Hillvia Atlantic
Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Schools are controlled by the government, but they serve specific communities with niche needs. How can education be publicly funded but privately managed...

Analysis and Commentary

The Voucher Animus

by Chester E. Finn Jr.via Education Next
Sunday, April 15, 2012

Rumor has it that we will soon see an actual education plan from Mitt Romney, his team having been loath to wade into this debate during the primaries...

Interviews

New York Teacher Ratings Renew Evaluation Debate

with Eric Hanushekvia All Things Considered (NPR)
Saturday, April 14, 2012

How do you measure who is an effective teacher...

Analysis and Commentary

Digital Learning in Utah: Devil is in the Details

by Paul E. Petersonvia Education Next
Friday, April 13, 2012

Can school districts be vehicles for introducing a choice-based system of digital education...

Analysis and Commentary

The President's Bully Pulpit and School Reform

by Paul E. Petersonvia Education Next
Monday, April 9, 2012

If presidents come to learn that they are also being held accountable for the nation’s educational performance, they will think more carefully about the consequences of their actions for students, not job holders...

Analysis and Commentary

Obama’s education grade left behind by Bush’s

by Paul E. Petersonvia Washington Times
Friday, April 6, 2012

President funneled money to teachers’ salaries rather than teaching success...

Analysis and Commentary

Why School Principals Need More Authority

by Chester E. Finn Jr.via Atlantic
Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Under the current system, educational leaders have all of the responsibility but none of the power. Allowing principals to act like CEOs may foster a more efficient system...

Analysis and Commentary

Misplaced Optimism and Weighted Funding

by Eric Hanushekvia Education Week
Monday, March 26, 2012

Schools will not improve until there are greater incentives for improving student achievement. Redistributing funds across schools or increasing the funding to schools by themselves will not magically put us on this path...

Analysis and Commentary

Nationalizing education through national defense?

by Williamson M. Eversvia Freedom Politics
Thursday, March 22, 2012

This Council on Foreign Relations proposal sounds like a much more ambitious re-run of the federal foray into K-12 education after the launching of Sputnik back on Oct. 4, 1957...

Pages

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.