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School Accountability—Past, Present, and Future
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by Chester E. Finn Jr.via Hoover Education Success Initiative | The Papers
The Unavoidable: Tomorrow's Teacher Compensation
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by Eric Hanushekvia Hoover Education Success Initiative | The Papers
Charters Can Do What’s Best for Students Who Care
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by Michael J. Petrillivia New York Times
Uncommon Knowledge with Hoover fellows Rick Hanushek and Paul Peterson
Uncommon Knowledge with Hoover fellows Rick Hanushek and Paul Peterson
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interview with Eric Hanushek, Paul E. Petersonvia Uncommon Knowledge
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How Teachers Unions Use 'Common Core' to Undermine Reform
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by Eric Hanushekvia Wall Street Journal
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Not Just the Problems of Other People's Children: U.S. Student Performance in Global Perspective
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by Eric Hanushek, Paul E. Peterson, Ludger Woessmannvia Harvard's Program on Education Policy and Governance (PEPG)

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The Ayers Affair (IV): In The Interest of Full Disclosure (Cont.)

with Chester E. Finn Jr., Paul T. Hillvia Education Week
Thursday, May 22, 2008

My own experience in public education policy is based on a firm belief in the superiority of imperfect markets over central planning...

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NAEP Gap Continuing for Charters

with Chester E. Finn Jr.via Education Week
Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Nearly four years after a front-page story in The New York Times sparked a fierce debate by suggesting that charter school students nationally were lagging academically behind their peers in regular public schools, the national testing program that informed the controversy has generated far more data for researchers and advocates to scrutinize...

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Groups Urge That FERPA Rules Give Researchers Access to Data

with Eric Hanushekvia Education Week
Wednesday, May 21, 2008

The Department of Education received some 125 comments on proposed new regulations for the main federal school privacy law suggesting revisions to make sure student data remain accessible to researchers, to enable states to better track student outcomes, and to protect school officials who disclose student information to ensure the health and safety of students and others...

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Georgia Enacts Comprehensive School Choice Law

with Milton Friedmanvia NewsMax
Wednesday, May 21, 2008

This past week Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue signed into law the most expansive school-choice program in the nation, yet the so-called mainstream media has completely ignored it...

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McCain's Advisers Include Several Advocates of Big Changes in Higher Education

with Williamson M. Evers, Koret Task Force, Hoover Institutionvia Chronicle of Higher Education
Friday, May 16, 2008

The Thomas B. Fordham Institute’s education blog, Flypaper, says it has obtained a fairly comprehensive list of John McCain’s education advisers...

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Virtual schools see strong growth, calls for more oversight

with Hoover Institutionvia Christian Science Monitor
Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Rather than send her kids off on the yellow bus, Briana LeClaire has school come to her home...

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Study forecasts hike in online education

with Hoover Institutionvia United Press International
Wednesday, May 14, 2008

A conservative think tank in California is predicting that U.S. high schools will be delivering half of their courses online by the year 2019...

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Courtesy, Curriculum, and a New Topic

by Diane Ravitchvia Education Week
Tuesday, May 13, 2008

I want to be first in line to shout "hosanna" to your call for courtesy...

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Education Next’s New Report Card on State Proficiency Standards under NCLB Reveals Which States Have World-Class Standards and Which Do Not

with Paul E. Petersonvia Business Wire
Monday, May 12, 2008

Education Next’s Paul E. Peterson and Frederick M. Hess have released their new report card on state proficiency standards, updated with the 2007 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) data and state assessment results. ..

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Historians and the Dumbing Down of Public Discourse

with Diane Ravitchvia History News Network
Monday, May 12, 2008

In the early 1990's, a brouhaha over an attempt to develop national standards for the teaching of history offered an exemplary and depressing demonstration of the politically motivated pigheadedness shared by many hard-line conservative and left-wing multiculturalist intellectuals...

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