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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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by Eric Hanushekvia Wall Street Journal

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Your Child Left Behind

by Eric Hanushek, Paul E. Petersonvia Hoover Digest
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

In advanced math studies, not a single American state or demographic group is keeping up with the rest of the world. Hoover fellows Eric A. Hanushek and Paul E. Peterson ran the numbers. By Amanda Ripley.

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Shanghai Surprise

by Chester E. Finn Jr.via Hoover Digest
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Students in China’s largest city just aced three global assessment tests. If American education ever had a “Sputnik moment,” this is it. By Chester E. Finn Jr.

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Why We Spend What We Spend

by Victor Davis Hansonvia Hoover Digest
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

The Pentagon’s budget is no ordinary line item. There are many reasons not to cut it. By Victor Davis Hanson.

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Union Made

by Richard A. Epsteinvia Hoover Digest
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

To bring government budgets back down to earth, first puncture those inflated labor contracts. By Richard A. Epstein.

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Analysis and Commentary

Losing Their Bargaining Rights Won’t Send Teachers to the Poorhouse

by Michael J. Petrillivia Education Next
Thursday, March 17, 2011

Teachers in non-collective bargaining districts actually earn more than their union-protected peers–$64,500 on average versus $57,500...

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Analysis and Commentary

U.S. Performance on PISA: The Rest of the Story

by Michael J. Petrillivia Education Next
Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Today, in advance of this week’s International Summit on the Teaching Profession, Fordham is releasing a little paper by Janie Scull and me, American Achievement in International Perspective...

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Analysis and Commentary

Are Too Many Young People Going to College?

by Gary S. Beckervia Becker-Posner Blog
Monday, March 14, 2011

...America will benefit greatly from increasing the numbers of young men and women who go to and graduate from colleges and universities. To do that, however, will require improving the preparation received at K-12 levels...

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Analysis and Commentary

Reader Rebuttal: Algebra in eighth grade

by Williamson M. Evers, Ze’ev Wurmanvia Orange County Register
Friday, March 11, 2011

Despite the efforts of California policymakers...constraints of the federal government sabotaged the steady progress in math achievement of California students...

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Chester Finn and William Damon

Hoover fellows sign statement to show support for a common core curriculum

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Chester Finn Jr., a senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution and chairman of Hoover’s Koret Task Force on K–12 Education, and William Damon, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, director of the Stanford Center on Adolescence, and a professor of education at Stanford University, are part of a broad bipartisan group of educators and business and labor leaders who announced their support for a common curriculum that states could adopt for public schools across the nation.

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Teachers must be evaluated by what students learn

by Williamson M. Eversvia San Francisco Chronicle
Sunday, March 13, 2011

We hear constantly today about the "effective teacher," but who is this effective teacher...?

Co-Author: Doug Lasken

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