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Analysis and Commentary

Unrealized Potential

by Michael J. Petrillivia Room for Debate (New York Times)
Sunday, October 2, 2011

Over the past two decades, “tracking” as traditionally practiced has been virtually eliminated from the vast majority of America’s schools — with the exception of mathematics at the middle and high school levels...

research fellow Michael Petrelli

Petrilli says US education policy doesn’t support smartest children on Fox Business News

via Fox Business
Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Mike Petrilli, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution where he specializes in education policy studies, breaks down the shortfalls of the education system and how No Child Left Behind is hurting our best and brightest students.

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Walberg on free markets with Mike Beitler

via Heartland Institute
Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Herbert Walberg, a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution and a member of the Koret Task Force on K–12 Education, discusses education reform and his latest book, Advancing Student Achievement, which you can read about here.

Income Integration at School

by Amy L. Waxvia Policy Review
Saturday, October 1, 2011

An unwise policy of social engineering

Abbas M. Milani

Facebook Open Office Hours: Questions for Abbas Milani

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Abbas Milani, Hoover fellow and director of Iranian studies at Stanford University, is taking questions on Facebook Open Office Hours. Do you have thoughts about Iran's international relations, politics, history or culture? Milani will answer the questions, and the video responses will appear within the week.

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Analysis and Commentary

Create a Question Bank, and Deepen Learning, Too

by Eric Hanushekvia SchoolBook (New York Times)
Monday, September 12, 2011

The use of student outcome measures for accountability is now firmly entrenched and is not about to go away. But a variety of complaints about the current testing system exist...

Williamson M. Evers

Evers moderates K–12 Education Forum Workshop

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Bill Evers, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and a member of the Institution’s Koret Task Force on K–12 Education, will moderate a workshop on K–12 education at the California Republican Party convention workshop series on September 17, 2011. The workshop will discuss education issues in California, including testing and accountability, curriculum, charter schools and open enrollment, and teachers’ unions. Click here for more information about the event.

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Terry M. Moe

Terry Moe discusses his book Special Interest with National Review’s John Miller

via Between the Covers (National Review Online)
Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Terry Moe, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a member of the Institution's Koret Task Force on K–12 Education, discusses teachers’ unions and how they affect K–12 education, performance, and learning.

Eric A. Hanushek

Hanushek on teachers

via EconTalk
Monday, August 29, 2011

In this podcast Russell Roberts, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and EconTalk host, discusses, with Eric Hanushek, the Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a member of the Koret Task Force on K–12 Education, the importance of teacher quality in education. Hanushek argues that the standard measures of quality—experience and advanced degrees—are uncorrelated with student performance.

Analysis and Commentary

NY Regents: Stop the madness!

by Michael J. Petrillivia Education Next
Monday, August 29, 2011

[Their] newfangled evaluation system is going to be miles more rigorous than what virtually all your districts have today, regardless of whether one-fifth or two-fifths of the ratings comes down to test scores...

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