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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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How Teachers Unions Use 'Common Core' to Undermine Reform
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Analysis and Commentary

Why Can't American Students Compete?

by Eric Hanushek, Paul E. Petersonvia Newsweek
Sunday, August 28, 2011

...32 percent of U.S. public and private-school students in the class of 2011 are deemed proficient in mathematics, placing the United States 32nd among the 65 nations that participated in the latest international tests administered by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)...

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Hoover senior fellows Eric Hanushek (left) and Paul Peterson

Hanushek and Peterson on American students

Monday, August 29, 2011

“The enemy I fear most is complacency. We are about to be hit by the full force of global competition. If we continue to ignore the obvious task at hand…our children and grandchildren will pay the price.” Charles Vest, the former president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Hoover senior fellows Eric Hanushek and Paul Peterson discuss the math proficiency of American students in comparison to the world in the Newsweek article “Why Can't American Students Compete?”

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Terry M. Moe

Klein reviews Steven Brill and Terry Moe’s books on reforming public education

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Joel Klein, executive vice president at News Corp. and CEO of the company's education division and former chancellor of the New York City public schools (2002–10), reviewed two publications by Steven Brill, a well-known journalist, and Hoover fellow Terry M. Moe, a member of the Institution's Koret Task Force on K–12 education at the Hoover Institution and the William Bennett Munro Professor of Political Science at Stanford University.

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Analysis and Commentary

With a Math Proficiency Rate of 32 Percent, U.S. Ranks Number 32

by Paul E. Petersonvia Education Next
Thursday, August 18, 2011

Thirty-two percent of U.S. students in the class of 2011 were proficient in mathematics when they were in 8th grade, according to the official U. S. report card on student achievement...

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Analysis and Commentary

With a Math Proficiency Rate of 32 Percent, U.S. Ranks Number 32

by Paul E. Petersonvia Education Next
Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Thirty-two percent of U.S. students in the class of 2011 were proficient in mathematics when they were in 8th grade, according to the official U. S. report card on student achievement...

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research fellow Michael Petrelli

Petrilli discusses waiving away No Child Left Behind on Opinion Journal

via Opinion Journal (Wall Street Journal)
Thursday, August 11, 2011

Mike Petrilli, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he specializes in education policy studies, discusses the White House's plan to waive No Child Left Behind provisions for states that adopt its preferred policies.

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Williamson M. Evers

Federal education policy with former assistant secretary of education Bill Evers on Reason TV.

via Reason.tv
Monday, August 8, 2011

Bill Evers, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and a member of the Institution’s Koret Task Force on K–12 Education, worries that the Obama administration wants to create a national education policy akin to France's Ministry of Education.

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Terry M. Moe

Moe on the Brian Wilson Show

via Brian Wilson and the Afternoon Drive (WSPD)
Thursday, August 4, 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 his recent book Special Interest: Teachers’ Unions and America’s Public Schools.

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Terry M. Moe

Moe discusses New Jersey unions’ challenge to benefit cuts

via Fox Business
Wednesday, August 3, 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 ways to reform unions and how changes can be made to future union benefits.

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Interviews

NJ Unions to Challenge Benefit Cuts

with Terry M. Moevia Fox Business
Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Hoover Institute Senior Fellow Terry Moe on reforming unions...

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