Hoover fellow and executive vice president of the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation Mike Petrilli recently published The Diverse Schools Dilemma: A Parent's Guide to Socioeconomically Mixed Public Schools. The book discusses the journey Petrilli and his wife took when picking a school for their two sons. Like many Washington parents, the Petrillis wanted a school with children from mixed racial and socioeconomic backgrounds, as well as one with good test scores.

With the election just over a week away, Stanford’s Education and Society Theme House highlighted the presidential candidates’ education policies at a discussion last Thursday, September 25. Eric Hanushek, the Hoover Institution’s Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow in Education and a member of the Koret Task Force on K–12 Education and Michael Kirst, a professor emeritus in education and business administration and current president of the California State Board of Education, discussed the candidates’ views on issues in education. Although Obama and Romney have opposing views on issues including school vouchers, student grants and loans, and for-profit education, Hanushek and Kirst ultimately agreed that little separates the candidates’ overall education policies. Click here to read the article in the Stanford Report.