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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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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
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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Analysis and Commentary

How To Educate An American: The Conservative Vision For Tomorrow's Schools

by Michael J. Petrilli, Chester E. Finn Jr.via Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Monday, February 24, 2020

In the years after A Nation at Risk, conservative ideas for reforming America’s lagging education system gained much traction. Key items like school choice, rigorous academic standards, and results-based school accountability drew bipartisan support and were put into practice across the country.

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Public Schools Are Teaching Our Children To Hate America

quoting William Damon, Michael J. Petrillivia The New York Post
Saturday, February 22, 2020

When he was young, Thomas Jefferson carefully copied those words — a quote from the great political philosopher Montesquieu — into his “commonplace book,” the private journal he kept as a student for future inspiration.

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Stanford Professor Terry Moe Finds Monopoly Bargaining Harmful To Students

quoting Terry M. Moevia Concerned Educators Against Forced Unionism
Wednesday, February 19, 2020

As a public sector monopoly bargaining makes it way through the Virginia legislature, it is worthwhile to look at the evidence against such a law, especially as the bill would negatively affect both teachers and students’ performance. 

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Analysis and Commentary

Five Reasons Congress Should Not Block-Grant The Federal Charter Schools Program

by Michael J. Petrillivia Flypaper (Fordham Education Blog)
Wednesday, February 19, 2020

As a center-right think tank president, there are certain things I’m supposed to adore. Among them: donations from billionaires (yes), smoking a pipe (no), and turning prescriptive federal programs into block grants (hell yes!).

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Long-Run Trends In The U.S. SES-Achievement Gap

by Eric Hanushek, Paul E. Peterson, Laura M. Talpey, Ludger Woessmannvia Analysis
Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Rising inequality in the United States has raised concerns about potentially widening gaps in educational achievement by socio-economic status (SES). Using assessments from LTT-NAEP, Main-NAEP, TIMSS, and PISA that are psychometrically linked over time, we trace trends in achievement for U.S. student cohorts born between 1954 and 2001. 

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Analysis and Commentary

The Education Exchange: The Gap Between High School Graduation And College Preparedness

by Paul E. Peterson interview with Margaret (Macke) Raymondvia The Education Exchange
Tuesday, February 18, 2020

A distinguished research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Macke Raymond (pictured), joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss Raymond’s new paper that looks into rising high school graduation rates, and the gap between those high-school graduation requirements and the entry requirements for state universities.

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The High School Diploma Dilemma

by Margaret (Macke) Raymondvia The Hill
Monday, February 17, 2020

How hard should it be to earn a high school diploma? The way high school diploma requirements are currently evolving across the United States virtually ensures that the nation will continue to backslide in social equity, economic well-being and international competitiveness.

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Better Pay For Teachers Makes Perfect Sense. But Getting There Won't Be Easy.

quoting Eric Hanushekvia The Washington Post
Friday, February 14, 2020

As I expected, many readers reacted heatedly to last week’s column on a proposal to reduce teacher retirement plans so that teachers who produced the best results could be paid more. Hanushek and company are even more hopeful than I am that the very difficult adjustments in the pension and compensation system could ever happen.

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Policy Seminar with Peter Arcidiacono

Thursday, February 13, 2020
Lou Henry Hoover Building, Room 101

Peter Arcidiacono, Professor of Economics at Duke University, discussed his paper on “Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard.”

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Interviews

Michael Petrilli On The Education Gadfly Show: Why Teachers With Higher Grading Standards Get Better Student Outcomes

interview with Michael J. Petrillivia Education Gadfly
Wednesday, February 12, 2020

Hoover Institution fellow Michael Petrilli  talks with Seth Gershenson, associate professor at American University, and David Griffith about the Fordham study Gershenson authored this month, Great Expectations: The Impact of Rigorous Grading Practices on Student Achievement.

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