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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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Glimpses of Economic Liberty

by Clint Bolickvia Hoover Digest
Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Bit by bit, courts are being forced to ponder the laws and licenses that stifle people’s freedom to work. By Clint Bolick.

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Men with a Mission

by Tom Shachtmanvia Hoover Digest
Wednesday, January 12, 2011

The Scheinman collection brings to life the story of how two friends, a white American and a black Kenyan, helped African democracy bloom. By Tom Shachtman.

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Analysis and Commentary

Do Home Schoolers Deserve a Tax Break? Yes, but Tests Are Necessary

by Chester E. Finn Jr.via Room for Debate (New York Times)
Tuesday, January 4, 2011

In return for the financial help...home-schooled students should be required to take state tests, just as they would do in regular school, charter school or virtual schools...

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Implications of International Comparisons of Student Performance

by Gary S. Beckervia Becker-Posner Blog
Sunday, January 2, 2011

Despite all the qualifications, scores on standardized tests, like the PISA tests, are much more effective ways to compare student achievements in different countries than are average years of schooling and other measures of school years completed...

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Analysis and Commentary

Nevermore Perched Outside My Chamber Door

by Paul E. Petersonvia Education Next
Sunday, January 2, 2011

When it comes to education, teacher unions—and their left-leaning allies—are never wrong, no, never, nevermore...In “bleak December,” I resolved to prove that dreary proposition wrong...

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Evers discusses the best and worst education developments of 2010

via Pajamas Media
Friday, December 24, 2010

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 best and worst education developments of 2010 with Joe Hicks from PJTV. Evers discusses math, teacher tenure, opportunity scholarships, Mayor Fenty, and much more.

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In Defense of the Liberal Arts

by Victor Davis Hansonvia National Review Online
Thursday, December 16, 2010

The therapeutic Left and the utilitarian Right both do disservice to the humanities...

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Chester E. Finn Jr.

Finn says United States needs to ‘get serious’ about education

via Bloomberg Television
Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Chester Finn, a senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution and chairman of Hoover’s Koret Task Force on K–12 Education, discusses the outlook for the US education system with Carol Massar and Matt Miller on Bloomberg Television's "Street Smart."

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Education Experts Identify Best and Worst in American Education in 2010

Monday, December 13, 2010
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America’s troubled schools attracted unusual attention during 2010, for both good and ill. How can we sort out the year’s many education developments to determine what truly mattered?

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Finn discusses Chinese pupils’ top global education scores

via BBC News
Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Chester E. Finn Jr., a senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution and chairman of Hoover’s Koret Task Force on K–12 Education, discusses a survey of half a million 15-year-old students from around the world; the survey shows that those in the Chinese city of Shanghai lead the world in reading, science, and math.

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