K-12 Education Task Force

Explore Research

Filter By:

Topic

Type

Author

Enter comma-separated ID numbers for authors

Support the Hoover Institution

Join the Hoover Institution's community of supporters in advancing ideas defining a free society.

Support Hoover

In the News

The Voucher Revolution in Education

by Herbert J. Walbergvia Private School Monitor
Tuesday, December 13, 2011

By 2030, K-12 education in America will be largely privatized...

Hoover senior fellows Terry Moe (left) and Eric Hanushek.

Putting education and growth into deficit talks

with Eric Hanushek, Terry M. Moevia Hoover Videos
Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Eric Hanushek and Terry Moe, Hoover senior fellows and members of the K–12 Education Task Force, discuss the role of economic growth in dealing with current deficit problems. The breakdown of congressional fiscal discussions over the balance of spending cuts and taxes completely neglects the third option of increasing GDP growth, a policy that would deal with long-run Medicare and Social Security issues. Improving long-run growth, however, will take significant changes in school policy–something that is difficult to achieve politically. (6:06)

Analysis and Commentary

The Euro and the Common Core

by Chester E. Finn Jr.via Education Next
Friday, December 9, 2011

If you hope the Euro crashes, that this week’s Brussels summit fails, and that European commerce returns to francs, marks, lira, drachma, and pesetas, you may be one of those rare Americans who also seeks the demise of the Common Core State Standards Initiative in U.S. education...

Williamson M. Evers

Ask the Expert: Bill Evers

with Williamson M. Eversvia Hoover Videos
Wednesday, December 7, 2011

This week, Hoover fellow Bill Evers hosted a forum with Stanford University students to discuss the Koret Task Force on K–12 Education’s list of best and worst events in education in 2011, as well as problems with the federal government’s effort to create a national curriculum.  Watch the video on Hoover's YouTube page. 

Grinding the antitesting ax—NCLB and high school exit exams

Grinding the antitesting ax—NCLB and high school exit exams

with Eric Hanushek, Terry M. Moevia Hoover Videos
Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Eric Hanushek and Terry Moe, Hoover senior fellows and members of the K–12 Education Task Force, discuss the recent report on school accountability by the National Research Council (NRC). That report neglected the scientific evidence when it concluded that No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and high school exit exams were not good policies. By the NRC’s own evidence, test-based accountability is valuable and investing in these programs has a rate of return that dwarfs that of virtually all governmental programs. (4:57)

Interviews

Bill Evers on Financial Spectrum

with Williamson M. Eversvia Financial Spectrum (WKXL)
Monday, December 5, 2011

GUESTS: Len Zacks - Handbook of Equity Anomalies; Dr. Williamson Evers - Hoover Education Experts Select 2011's Best and Worst Events...

Analysis and Commentary

A Modest Federal Role

by Chester E. Finn Jr.via National Journal Expert Blog: Education
Monday, December 5, 2011

Some things are simply beyond Uncle Sam's reach, and one of those is competent enforcement of spending comparability in the absence of state/district school budget and financing based on KIDS rather than GROWN-UPS...

Analysis and Commentary

Too Many Cooks, Too Many Kitchens

by Chester E. Finn Jr., Michael J. Petrillivia Education Next
Friday, December 2, 2011

Despite America’s romantic attachment to “local control of public education,” the reality is that the way it works today offers a worst-of-both-worlds scenario...

In the News

The Voucher Revolution

by Herbert J. Walbergvia Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)
Thursday, November 17, 2011

By 2030, K-12 education in America will be completely privatized...

an image

The Voucher Revolution

by Herbert J. Walbergvia Defining Ideas
Wednesday, November 16, 2011

By 2030, K-12 education in America will be completely privatized.

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.