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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
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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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Analysis and Commentary

Twenty-Five Years Later, A Nation Still at Risk

by Chester E. Finn Jr.via Wall Street Journal
Saturday, April 26, 2008

Today marks the 25th anniversary of "A Nation at Risk," the influential Reagan-era report by a blue-ribbon panel that alerted Americans to the weak performance of our education system...

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Analysis and Commentary

Economics of college: Part III

by Thomas Sowellvia Creators Syndicate
Saturday, April 26, 2008

Why does college cost so much?

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In the News

Fighting for a piece of Clio

with Diane Ravitchvia Economist
Thursday, April 24, 2008

THREE years ago Bob Huff, a newly-elected Republican assemblyman, voted for a bill that would have pressed schools to teach pupils more about Filipinos' role in the second world war...

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Comment: Time to reform teacher pay schedules

with Eric Hanushekvia San Antonio Express-News
Thursday, April 24, 2008

As the cost of food, fuel and electricity continues to increase, school officials inevitably face trying to do more with less...

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Twenty-five years later, nation remains at risk

with Chester E. Finn Jr.via Grand Forks Herald (ND)
Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Let us limp down memory lane to mark this week’s melancholy 25th anniversary of a national commission’s report that galvanized Americans to vow to do better...

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What Should Happen in Our Houses of Learning?

by Diane Ravitchvia Education Week
Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Well, we do disagree about what should happen in “our houses of learning.”...

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Still at Risk

with Diane Ravitch, Chester E. Finn Jr.via American Enterprise Institute
Tuesday, April 22, 2008

In the aftermath of the furor provoked by A Nation At Risk, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) conducted a groundbreaking study to determine what America's seventeen-year-olds knew about history and literature...

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'Nation at Risk': The best thing or the worst thing for education?

with Diane Ravitchvia USA Today
Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Twenty-five years ago this week, Americans awoke to a forceful little report that, depending on your point of view, either ruined public education or saved it...

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Where Do We Go Now?

with Eric Hanushekvia American Enterprise Institute
Monday, April 21, 2008

As ever, Richard Rothstein is eloquent...

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Does the rise in alternatively trained teachers spell trouble?

with Hoover Institutionvia St. Petersburg Times
Saturday, April 19, 2008

So many teacher sex scandals...

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