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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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Profile in School Reform: Terry Moe

by Emily Esfahani Smithvia Defining Ideas
Friday, April 15, 2011

The politics of education, and why technology will render teachers unions obsolete.

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Analysis and Commentary

Are Experienced Teachers Really That Much Better?

by Paul E. Petersonvia Education Next
Thursday, April 7, 2011

...[A]ccording to a study Matthew Chingos and I just completed, teachers get better in the first few years of teaching, and then their performance slips in later years...

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Valuing Teachers

by Eric Hanushekvia Education Next
Tuesday, April 5, 2011

How much is a good teacher worth...?

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Analysis and Commentary

Bottom up vs. top down

by Russ Robertsvia Cafe Hayek
Tuesday, April 5, 2011

...[T]here are fads in math education and the rest of education that are bad ideas. Do we really want those fads to take over. Or do we want competition...?

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Analysis and Commentary

What Would Al Shanker Do?

by Michael J. Petrillivia Education Next
Thursday, March 31, 2011

I strongly encourage you to read Richard Kahlenberg‘s brilliant 2007 biography of Albert Shanker, Tough Liberal...What struck me most about the book was the status of the teaching profession before Shanker and his colleagues won the right to collectively bargain in 1960...

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Sins of the Fathers, the Mothers, and Others

by Thomas Sowellvia Hoover Digest
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
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A Most Ingenious Trick

by Matt Ridley, Peter M. Robinsonvia Hoover Digest
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Matt Ridley, author of The Rational Optimist, insists that we humans must face the truth about ourselves—no matter how good it might be. An interview with Peter Robinson.

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Analysis and Commentary

How to Raise the Status of Teachers: Restructure Compensation

by Michael J. Petrillivia Room for Debate (New York Times)
Sunday, March 27, 2011

The current budget crisis could pave the way for a restructured teacher compensation system along these lines once the money returns...

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In Harm's Way

by Henry I. Millervia Hoover Digest
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

How we misjudge the risks—and non-risks—of daily life. By Henry I. Miller.

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Spoken Like a World Citizen

by Russell A. Bermanvia Hoover Digest
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Learning a foreign language is more than just a boot camp for future soldiers and diplomats. By Russell A. Berman.

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