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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
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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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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Britain addicted to exams, says professor

with Niall Fergusonvia ATL Education News (UK)
Thursday, May 15, 2008

The education system is crippling children's abilities to achieve because of its narrow choices and obsession with exams, a US professor claims...

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The education-industrial complex

with Paul E. Petersonvia World on the Web
Thursday, May 15, 2008

Paul Peterson, director of Harvard’s Program on Education Policy and Governance and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, is doing something more and more people seem to be doing...

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'Quick fix culture is dumbing down education'

with Niall Fergusonvia Telegraph (UK)
Wednesday, May 14, 2008

School tests have been "dumbed down" to ensure that pupils get the right answer quickly rather than working through ideas, said Jonathan Milton, the headmaster of Westminster Abbey Choir School, in London...

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Exam system ‘fails to prepare students for university studies’

with Niall Fergusonvia Times (UK)
Wednesday, May 14, 2008

England’s education system has become “fatally distorted” by an unhealthy fixation with anachronistic exams that ill prepare students for university, a leading academic has claimed...

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Why A College Degree is Worth the Cost

with Gary S. Beckervia University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
Wednesday, May 14, 2008

The worldwide boom in higher education has led to higher earnings and better living conditions across the board for people with college educations, said Gary Becker, University Professor of Economics and of Sociology...

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Alternatives to Middle East major offered

with Abbas Milanivia Stanford Daily
Wednesday, May 14, 2008

While its peer universities offer dedicated Near or Middle Eastern Studies programs for undergraduates, Stanford’s opportunities in Middle Eastern studies are less centralized...

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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 in English schools is 'fatally distorted' says Niall Ferguson

with Niall Fergusonvia Times (UK)
Tuesday, May 13, 2008

The English education system has become “fatally distorted” by an unhealthy fixation with an anachronistic examinations system that ill prepares students for university, a leading academic has warned...

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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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