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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
How Not To Teach American History
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by David Davenport, Gordon Lloydvia Defining Ideas
The Civic Education Crisis
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by David Davenportvia Defining Ideas
Charters Can Do What’s Best for Students Who Care
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by Michael J. Petrillivia New York Times
How the Education Spendthrifts Get Away With It
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by Paul E. Petersonvia Wall Street Journal
Uncommon Knowledge with Hoover fellows Rick Hanushek and Paul Peterson
Uncommon Knowledge with Hoover fellows Rick Hanushek and Paul Peterson
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How Teachers Unions Use 'Common Core' to Undermine Reform
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by Eric Hanushekvia Wall Street Journal
Global Education
Affirmative Action and the Demotion of Truth
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by Peter Berkowitzvia Real Clear Politics
A Win For Students
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by Richard A. Epsteinvia Defining Ideas

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15 Stanford Faculty Members Elected To The American Academy Of Arts And Sciences

mentioning Caroline M. Hoxbyvia Stanford News
Thursday, April 23, 2020

15 Stanford faculty elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the country’s oldest and most prestigious honorary learned societies, are scholars in the fields of education, performing arts, economics, law and mathematics.

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'Connected' In A Time Of COVID

by Bowman Heiden, Richard Sousavia Defining Ideas
Saturday, April 25, 2020

Will our altered habits of work and study outlast the pandemic? 

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Shooting The Test-Messenger – By Chester E. Finn, Jr.

by Chester E. Finn Jr.via EducationNext
Friday, April 24, 2020

Two cheers for Lynn Olson’s and Craig Jerald’s long, perceptive explanation of hostility to statewide assessments (“Statewide Standardized Assessments Were in Peril Even Before the Coronavirus. Now They’re Really in Trouble.”). Their chronology is spot on. They’re right about the intensity of the “testing backlash.”

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Two Passings Of Note (Neither Related To COVID-19)

by Chester E. Finn Jr.via Flypaper (Fordham Education Blog)
Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Abby Thernstrom wasn’t a close friend, but she was a lot more than a cordial acquaintance. For as many decades as I can remember, she was both a force to be reckoned with in education and civil rights policy and a treasured colleague in pursuit of excellence and integrity in both realms.

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No Wonder The Kids Are Historically Illiterate

quoting Thomas Sowellvia American Thinker
Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Generally, when a buyer is defrauded of services, the demand for the goods diminishes. As more emerges of what colleges and universities across this country are not doing, the demand will dry up unless there are drastic changes.

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New Issue Of Hoover Digest Online

via Hoover Digest
Tuesday, April 21, 2020

The spring issue of Hoover Digest is now available online. The journal focuses on topics both classical—the economy, personal freedom, the role of government—and timely, such as cybersecurity, terrorism, and geopolitical shifts. 

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Congratulations To Hoover Curator Herbert S. Klein!

Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Dr. Herbert S. Klein, Curator of Latin American Collections at Hoover Institution Library & Archives, has recently published two new works on the social and political history of Brazil. A longtime Hoover research fellow, Gouverneur Morris Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University, and former director of Stanford's Center ...

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The Education Exchange: “People Want Their Kids Back In School”

by Paul E. Petersonvia The Education Exchange
Monday, April 20, 2020

The former superintendent of Seattle Public Schools, Joseph Olchefske, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss how how to deliver education while physical campuses are closed because of Covid-19, and how to plan simultaneously for either a quick re-opening of school buildings or an prolonged shut-down.

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Putting Aside Woke Things

by Frederick M. Hess, Chester E. Finn Jr.via Hoover Digest
Monday, April 20, 2020

Far too many schools place social justice ahead of learning. For the sake of students, we must reject this harmful revolution.

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AP Makes the Grade

by Chester E. Finn Jr., Andrew Scanlanvia Hoover Digest
Monday, April 20, 2020

Education reforms come and go, most achieving little. But Advanced Placement programs? They work.

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