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Peter Berkowitz

Berkowitz discusses liberal bias on college campuses on KQED’s Forum

via Forum with Michael Krasny (KQED)
Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Peter Berkowitz, the Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, discusses whether or not students at the University of California are receiving a biased and compromised education from activist professors.

Analysis and Commentary

Is the Media Biased in Favor of Reform? It Depends on the Reform

by Michael J. Petrillivia Education Next
Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Paul Farhi of the Washington Post created a stir this weekend with an American Journalism Review article ripping mainstream education reporting for being uncritical of school reform...And Farhi’s not wrong...

Analysis and Commentary

Why School Principals Need More Authority

by Chester E. Finn Jr.via Atlantic
Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Under the current system, educational leaders have all of the responsibility but none of the power. Allowing principals to act like CEOs may foster a more efficient system...

Teacher shouting and kids doing pushups cartoon

A Boot Camp for Citizenship

by Peter Berkowitzvia Hoover Digest
Friday, April 6, 2012

Civics education must not be indoctrination, but it also must not be overlooked. By Peter Berkowitz.

Peter Berkowitz

Berkowitz discusses his op-ed “Professors Proselytizing Liberalism”

via Wall Street Journal TV
Friday, March 30, 2012

Peter Berkowitz, the Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, chair of the Koret-Taube Task Force on National Security and Law, and cochair of the the Boyd and Jill Smith Task Force on Virtues of a Free Society, notes, on Wall Street Journal TV, that public colleges are legally obligated to keep the classrooms free of politics and that classrooms should be places where students are free to explore ideas.

Analysis and Commentary

Misplaced Optimism and Weighted Funding

by Eric Hanushekvia Education Week
Monday, March 26, 2012

Schools will not improve until there are greater incentives for improving student achievement. Redistributing funds across schools or increasing the funding to schools by themselves will not magically put us on this path...

Condoleezza Rice

Condoleezza Rice makes the case for the arts as a vital part of education on PBS’s NewsHour

via PBS NewsHour
Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Condoleezza Rice, the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution and a professor of political science at Stanford University, discusses a new report by the Council on Foreign Relations that sounds an alarm on the poor state of our nation's education system. Rice also emphasizes the importance of a well-rounded individual, including her or his study of the arts.

Condoleezza Rice

Condoleezza Rice: School shortfalls put America at risk

via CBS News
Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Condoleezza Rice, the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution and a professor of political science at Stanford University, discusses a new report by the Council on Foreign Relations that sounds an alarm on the poor state of our nation's education system. Rice, who cochaired the task force that released the report, talks to Charlie Rose and Erica Hill on CBS News about the report’s findings.

Analysis and Commentary

You Can Deny the Truth of My Critique of Broader, Bolder Theory, But Why Can’t You At Least Spell My Name?

by Paul E. Petersonvia Education Next
Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Since [blogger Valerie Strauss] can’t get my name right, she’s probably out of whack on other things as well. Let’s see...

Analysis and Commentary

Education keeps America safe

by Condoleezza Rice, Joel Kleinvia CNN.com
Tuesday, March 20, 2012

America's greatest strengths stem from the freedom to innovate, create, compete and succeed. Without a wide base of educated and capable citizens, our strengths will fade, and the United States will lose its capacity to lead in the international community...

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