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Analysis and Commentary

The 'Education' Mantra

by Thomas Sowellvia Creators Syndicate
Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Too many of the people coming out of even our most prestigious academic institutions graduate with neither the skills to be economically productive nor the intellectual development to make them discerning citizens and voters...

In the News

Closing the Door on Innovation: Why One National Curriculum is Bad for America

by John E. Chubb, David Davenport, Richard A. Epstein, Williamson M. Evers, Robert P. George, David R. Henderson, Edwin Meese III, Michael McConnell, Shelby Steele, Herbert J. Walbergvia K12Innovation.com
Monday, May 9, 2011

A Critical Response to the Shanker Institute Manifesto and the U.S. Department of Education’s Initiative to Develop a National Curriculum and National Assessments Based on National Standards...

Williamson M. Evers

Education reformers fight back against national curriculum

Monday, May 9, 2011

Bill Evers, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and a member of the Institution’s Koret Task Force on K–12 Education, discusses the issues concerning a national K–12 curriculum and why he is against it. Evers ideal system would be decentralized and have a pluralism of mechanisms by which education would be delivered to students.

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Hoover  senior fellow Russell Berman

Berman on learning multiple languages

Friday, May 6, 2011

Russell A. Berman, the Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, discusses the necessity for all high school students to be fluent in a language other than English. Berman calls for “a national commitment to ramping up the quality of education.” Click here to read the full article.

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Analysis and Commentary

Mission Lost

by Bruce Thorntonvia City Journal
Tuesday, May 3, 2011

California’s state university system offers everything but a liberal education...

Analysis and Commentary

Our Elite Schools Have Abandoned Military History

by Peter Berkowitzvia Wall Street Journal
Saturday, April 30, 2011

The study of war elucidates some of mankind's noblest virtues and bitterest vices. So why do colleges seem afraid of it...?

Analysis and Commentary

California Abandons History for Melodrama

by Bruce Thorntonvia Advancing a Free Society
Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Just when you think California can’t get any wackier, the state legislature steps up and proves you wrong...

Analysis and Commentary

The New Unionism, Legislative Version

by Eric Hanushekvia Education Next
Thursday, April 14, 2011

An expanding list of states has joined in legislative battles over the future character of collective bargaining, a territory that was completely uncharted six months ago...

Special Interest: Teachers Unions and America's Public Schools

Moe’s new book Special Interest: Teachers Unions and America's Public Schools

Friday, April 15, 2011

Terry Moe, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, member of the Institution's Koret Task Force on K–12 education, and the William Bennett Munro Professor of political science at Stanford University, recently published Special Interest: Teachers Unions and America's Public Schools which covers how the unions have caused the education reform movement to be a disappointment. His book is also discussed in the Defining Ideas article Profile in School Reform: Terry Moe.

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Analysis and Commentary

Evaluation of teachers must improve

by Terry Ryan with Eric Hanushekvia Columbus Dispatch (OH)
Saturday, April 9, 2011

Given how powerfully teachers can alter students' life trajectories, it is not only prudent but imperative to push reforms that enable education leaders to distinguish effective teachers from ineffective ones...

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