K-12 Reform

Education

Filter By:

Type

Fellow

Research Team

Use comma-separated ID numbers for each author

Support the Hoover Institution

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

Support Hoover

In the News

Parents Involved in Community Schools, v. Seattle School District No. 1, et al.

by Herbert J. Walbergvia Supreme Court of the United States of America
Tuesday, July 3, 2007

Brief of Amici Curiae Drs. Murphy, Rossell and Walberg in support of petitioners...

In the News

Racial Racketeering In Education

with Koret Task Force, Eric Hanushekvia Day (CT)
Monday, July 2, 2007

As public educators continue to come under fire for failing to improve mediocre schools, those with a vested interest in the status quo increasingly mask their self-serving agenda with phony prescriptions for racial equity — projects designed to recruit the naive while intimidating knowledgeable critics into silence....

In the News

Question & Answer: The Truth About America's Schools

by Diane Ravitchvia American
Sunday, July 1, 2007

Is K–12 education really lagging badly, or have we ‘raised our sights’?

Analysis and Commentary

New school plan has promise

by Liam Julianvia St. Petersburg Times
Saturday, June 30, 2007

After 35 years of busing to achieve racially integrated classrooms, Pinellas County's new pupil assignment plan will make its schools much more racially monolithic....

In the News

Paying for Grades Insults Poor

with Diane Ravitchvia New York Sun
Friday, June 29, 2007

Before the bureaucrats and the federal government entered the picture, New York City offered good public schools and what essentially amounted to free health care...

Analysis and Commentary

Eradicating White Guilt

by Michael J. Petrillivia National Review Online
Thursday, June 28, 2007

Today’s Supreme Court decision striking down Louisville’s and Seattle’s race-based student assignment plans will surely lead to much gnashing of teeth, recriminations, and accusations of America slipping back to the era of Jim Crow...

In the News

Life lessons - Tuition hikes reflect hard realities

with Milton Friedmanvia Colorado Springs Gazette
Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Brace for another upswelling of anger and whining: the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs is asking taxpayer-subsidized college students to shoulder more of the true cost of their educations, by not giving away credits for free and hiking tuition 7 percent...

In the News

Bong Hits 4 Jesus Was About More than Free Speech

by Diane Ravitchvia Huffington Post
Tuesday, June 26, 2007

On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled narrowly in favor of the school in Alaska that suspended a student for holding up a banner that said "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" at a school-sponsored event...

In the News

Students shortchanged in testing

with Hoover Institutionvia Salem Statesman Journal (OR)
Sunday, June 24, 2007

Oregon's students are held to some of the lowest standards in the nation, according to a recent Gannett News Service analysis of test scores...

In the News

Substituting Pay for Passion

by Diane Ravitchvia Education Week
Friday, June 22, 2007

Apparently your trip to China has in no way dimmed your energy or your imagination...

Pages

Hoover Education Success Initiative (HESI)

CREDO at Stanford University