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Stop the War Against Standardized Tests

by Herbert J. Walbergvia Defining Ideas
Friday, May 20, 2011

They hold teachers accountable and benefit students. What's not to like?

Analysis and Commentary

The Upside of Class Size Reduction

by Eric Hanushekvia Education Next
Thursday, May 19, 2011

Class size is again in the media across the country, this time because of increases in class size related to fiscal cutbacks...

Analysis and Commentary

Education hornets’ nest: Creating a national K-12 curriculum

by Williamson M. Eversvia Hill
Monday, May 9, 2011

The U.S. Department of Education has, since September of 2010, been financing the work of two testing groups to create a national K-12 curriculum for English and mathematics...

Co-Author: Robert Eitel

Interviews

Education Reformers Fight Back Against National Curriculum

with Williamson M. Eversvia Big Government
Monday, May 9, 2011

Bill Evers, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education for Policy under President George W. Bush, recently participated in a question-and-answer session regarding a national curriculum...

Analysis and Commentary

Are charter-school reforms on right track?

by Chester E. Finn Jr.via Columbus Dispatch (OH)
Monday, May 9, 2011

No: Bill would reward poor performers and keep out strong ones...

Eric A. Hanushek

Eric Hanushek on My Great Kid

via My Great Kid (WDTW)
Saturday, May 7, 2011

Eric Hanushek, the Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow and a member of the Koret Task Force on K–12 Education, discusses teachers, budgets, and improving the classroom environment on My Great Kid AM1310.

Interviews

Eric Hanushek on My Great Kid

with Eric Hanushekvia My Great Kid (WDTW)
Saturday, May 7, 2011

Staci and Steve talk to Eric Hanushek, Senior Fellow at Stanford University, discussing teachers, budgets, and improving the classroom environment...

Interviews

School Voucher Debate Heats Back Up

with Chester E. Finn Jr.via NPR
Friday, May 6, 2011
Analysis and Commentary

The Longevity Increase—What?

by Paul E. Petersonvia Education Next
Monday, April 18, 2011

Teacher union leaders are outraged that the Watertown, Mass. school committee has rejected a negotiated contract that would give them a longevity increase...

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The K-12 Education Koret Task Force is no longer active as of December 2014.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.