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Analysis and Commentary

You Can Deny the Truth of My Critique of Broader, Bolder Theory, But Why Can’t You At Least Spell My Name?

by Paul E. Petersonvia Education Next
Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Since [blogger Valerie Strauss] can’t get my name right, she’s probably out of whack on other things as well. Let’s see...

Analysis and Commentary

The disparities of disparate impact

by Chester E. Finn Jr.via Education Gadfly (Thomas B. Fordham Institute)
Friday, March 16, 2012

Is there a racist behind every tree in the American education forest...

Analysis and Commentary

Fix public schools before child poverty

by Paul E. Petersonvia Daily News (NY)
Sunday, March 11, 2012

Low income students can learn, too...

Analysis and Commentary

Obama college tuition cap favors wealthy

by Paul E. Petersonvia Washington Times
Saturday, March 10, 2012

Proposal would only serve to cut financial aid for the poor...

In the News

Those pesky things called laws

with Williamson M. Eversvia Washington Post
Friday, March 9, 2012
Analysis and Commentary

The Conservative Case for the Common Core

by Chester E. Finn Jr.via Education Next
Friday, March 9, 2012

This is the best path toward getting Uncle Sam and heavy-handed state governments to back off from micro-managing how schools are run and to return that authority to communities, individual schools, teachers, and parents...

In the News

The Key to America's Global Competitiveness: A Quality Education

with Eric Hanushekvia U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Chester E. Finn Jr.

Finn discusses whether minority students face harsher discipline on PBS’s NewsHour

via PBS NewsHour
Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Chester E. Finn Jr., a senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution and chairman of Hoover’s Koret Task Force on K–12 Education, discusses the education department's Office of Civil Rights’ report showing that black and Hispanic students are more likely to be suspended than white students.

Interviews

Report: Minority Students Face Harsher Discipline

with Chester E. Finn Jr.via PBS NewsHour
Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Black and Hispanic students are more likely to be suspended than white students, according to a report released Tuesday by the Education Department's Office of Civil Rights...

Analysis and Commentary

The War Against the Common Core

by Chester E. Finn Jr.via Education Next
Monday, March 5, 2012

The Common Core State Standards Initiative landed in our midst with four great assets...Ever since it landed, however, the Common Core has been the object of ceaseless attacks from multiple directions...

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.