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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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Hiding In Plain Sight: Advancing SEL By Tackling Today’s Urgent Problems

by Chester E. Finn Jr.via Flypaper (Fordham Education Blog)
Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Partisans of social-emotional learning are wont to make their case in utopian terms: Create better learning environments and good things will happen to kids, to academic achievement, to the society in which we live, etc.

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In the News

Condoleezza Rice To Helm Hoover Institution At Stanford University

quoting Condoleezza Rice, John B. Taylor, Thomas W. Gilliganvia Palo Alto Online
Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has been chosen as director of Stanford University's Hoover Institution, Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne announced Tuesday.

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In the News

Florida To Roll Out 'Common Sense' Standards After Dropping Common Core

quoting Michael J. Petrillivia Education Dive
Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran cited the "flatlining" of results on the National Assessment of Educational Progress — and in Florida's case, even a decline in student performance — as a catalyst for the change.

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Condoleezza Rice To Lead Stanford’s Hoover Institution

featuring Condoleezza Ricevia Stanford News
Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Rice will assume the post as head of the 100-year-old public policy research center on Sept. 1.

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Analysis and Commentary

With Superintendent John White Leaving, Louisiana Needs A New Education Leader — Not A New Education Plan

by Michael J. Petrillivia The 74 Million
Monday, January 27, 2020

In his classic 1998 book, Spinning Wheels, Frederick M. Hess explains the logic that animates much of the nation’s education system: Superintendents are faced with a dilemma.

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Analysis and Commentary

The Education Exchange: Student Test Scores In Newark Charter Schools

by Paul E. Petersonvia The Education Exchange
Monday, January 27, 2020

Marcus Winters, an associate professor in Boston University and Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss a new study by Winters that shows lasting test score gains for students at charter schools in Newark, N.J.

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In the News

Why I'm Optimistic About The Future Of The Humanities

quoting Niall Fergusonvia CNN
Friday, January 24, 2020

The humanities are in crisis. They've always been in crisis, at least according to reports from the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and over the last decade, but it's gotten more and more dire.

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Interviews

Michael Petrilli: The State Of School Reform

interview with Michael J. Petrillivia First Things
Thursday, January 23, 2020

Hoover Institution fellow Michael Petrilli talks about the latest K-12 education news.

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HESI Background Paper

Teacher Pensions and Teacher Quality: Drawing on Existing Evidence to Formulate New Ideas

by Maria Fitzpatrickvia Hoover Education Success Initiative | The Papers
Thursday, January 23, 2020

Given the massive taxpayer investments that school districts and states are making in educator pension systems, it is time to reconsider how these retirement incentives impact teacher retention and student learning in our nation’s classrooms.

Background paper for The Unavoidable: Tomorrow's Teacher Compensation.

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PoliticsFeatured

California Should Take A Collective Breath—And Consider What Collective Bargaining Has Brought

by Bill Whalenvia California on Your Mind
Thursday, January 23, 2020

Forget about death and taxes as life’s only certainties.

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