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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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Analysis and Commentary

If Obama Beat Clinton in Colorado, Nancy Beat Barack in Washington

by Paul E. Petersonvia Education Next
Wednesday, August 11, 2010

In the Clinton-Obama tug-of-war, the Obama team gave education reformers something to cheer when they won the Senate contest in Colorado...

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The Public Thinks That Poor Kids Make for Bad Schools

by Michael J. Petrillivia Education Next
Wednesday, August 11, 2010

We all know that when someone says they are moving to a neighborhood with “good schools,” that really means “schools without too many poor kids.” Not that choosing to send your son or daughter to a school with lots of disadvantaged children is an easy decision...

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Analysis and Commentary

China-Harvard Connection: A Modest Proposal

by Alvin Rabushkavia Thoughtful Ideas
Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Harvard could increase its physical capital while China would receive an annual return in an increased number of students earning Harvard degrees. This could serve as a model of cooperation with other U.S. universities for which private and government funding is much tighter for expansion and renewal of physical plant...

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Analysis and Commentary

Cheering Immaturity

by Thomas Sowellvia Creators Syndicate
Tuesday, August 10, 2010

One of the many disservices done to young people by our schools and colleges is giving them the puffed up notion that they are in a position to pass sweeping judgments on a world that they have barely begun to experience...

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Analysis and Commentary

Common Standards Remarkably Uncontroversial

by Chester E. Finn Jr., Paul E. Petersonvia Education Next
Monday, August 9, 2010

Education Next’s Paul Peterson and Chester E. Finn, Jr. talk this week (August 9) about the politics and economics of the Common Core standards...

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Williamson M. Evers

Hoover fellow on the Heartland Institute’s School Reform podcast

via Heartland Institute
Thursday, July 29, 2010

Williamson M. Evers, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and a member of the Institution’s Koret Task Force on K–12 Education who specializes in research on education policy, especially as it pertains to curriculum, teaching, testing, accountability, and school finance from kindergarten through high school, discusses Common Core standards.

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National standards would harm math curriculum

by Williamson M. Eversvia San Francisco Chronicle
Friday, July 30, 2010

The State Board of Education is voting Monday on adopting national K-12 curriculum standards in a package that includes an obese, unteachable eighth-grade math course...

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Analysis and Commentary

Conflicting Research On Core Standards: Nothing "converse" about it!

by Chester E. Finn Jr.via National Journal Expert Blog: Education
Monday, July 26, 2010

Are Common Core Standards an effective education reform tool..?

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Proposed math standards unteachable

by Williamson M. Eversvia Sacramento Bee
Saturday, July 24, 2010

California's proposed new mathematics content standards would gut the state's successful program, which has put 60 percent of the state's children in Algebra I by eighth grade...

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The Common Core Curriculum

by Chester E. Finn Jr., Michael J. Petrillivia National Review Online
Thursday, July 22, 2010

National education standards that even conservatives can love...

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