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Analysis and Commentary

Obama should heed Tocqueville on schools

by Williamson M. Eversvia Freedom Politics
Monday, September 26, 2011

It is worth the time to remind ourselves what some of Tocqueville’s insights were. Once we do, we can consider the Obama administration’s current nationalization of K-12 public-school curriculum, with Tocqueville’s insights in mind...

Analysis and Commentary

The Unilateral Repeal of NCLB and the 2012 Election

by Chester E. Finn Jr.via Corner (National Review Online)
Friday, September 23, 2011

The Obama administration’s new waiver plan doesn’t officially repeal the No Child Left Behind Act, but it is tantamount to making large-scale amendments to it. Which it does unilaterally, without even a thumbs-up from Congress...

Analysis and Commentary

Public Wants Single-Sex School Option, Even Though Professors Do Not

by Paul E. Petersonvia Education Next
Friday, September 23, 2011

Science magazine has given space in its journal to a small group of self-appointed experts who insist that no child shall be allowed to attend a single-sex public school...

Analysis and Commentary

Obama’s Anti-Clinton Tax Increase

by Paul E. Petersonvia Advancing a Free Society
Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Obama’s strategists are surely telling him that reaching out to Republicans and Independents can wait until the growing disturbance within the Democratic Party is pacified. That is best done by appeasing the left-leaning, interest-group activists within the Democratic Party...

In the News

Beyond the School District

by Chester E. Finn Jr.via National Affairs
Monday, September 19, 2011

Round after round of education reform has failed in recent decades, and one major reason is our anachronistic and deeply flawed system for organizing and operating public schools...

Analysis and Commentary

A Blue-State Bailout in Disguise

by Paul E. Petersonvia Wall Street Journal
Thursday, September 15, 2011

Our new study shows that under the Obama jobs bill, debt-ridden states will get another big handout...

Analysis and Commentary

Create a Question Bank, and Deepen Learning, Too

by Eric Hanushekvia SchoolBook (New York Times)
Monday, September 12, 2011

The use of student outcome measures for accountability is now firmly entrenched and is not about to go away. But a variety of complaints about the current testing system exist...

Williamson M. Evers

Reason.tv: Federal Education Policy with Former Assistant Secretary of Education Bill Evers

via Hoover Videos
Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Williamson M. Evers, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and a member of the Institution’s Koret Task Force on K–12 Education, discusses federal education policy.

Interviews

Terry Moe on Special Interest

with Terry M. Moevia Between the Covers (National Review Online)
Tuesday, September 6, 2011

"Teachers join unions to protect their jobs and to promote their occupational interests, and these interests are not the same as the interests of children...all these things are supported by teachers because they affect and threaten their jobs," says Terry Moe...

Analysis and Commentary

Are NCLB waivers legal?

by Williamson M. Eversvia Freedom Politics
Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Here we have the U.S. Department of Education, a part of the Executive branch, saying that -- to receive waivers from NCLB sanctions -- the states must agree to conditions set by the Department. Yet these conditions are found nowhere in NCLB...

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.