Jump to content

Stanford University

  • News & Events
  • About Hoover
  • Hoover Press
  • Hoover in DC
 
Support Hoover

Get Involved

  • Support the Mission of the Hoover Institution
  • Subscribe to the Hoover Daily Report
  • Follow Hoover on Social Media

Make A Gift

Your gift helps advance ideas that promote a free society.

Donate now

Hoover Institution

  • Research
  • Publications
  • Fellows
  • Library & Archives
  • POLICYEd
  •  
  • Research
    • Overview
    • By Topic
    • By Content
    • By Research Team
    • By Region
  • Publications
    • Overview
    • Hoover Publications
    • PolicyEd
    • Books by Fellows
    • Hoover Channels
    • Fellows Blog
    • Economics Working Papers
    • Video Series
    • Podcasts
    • Hoover Institution Press
  • Fellows
    • Overview
    • By Name
    • By Awards
    • By Category
    • By Expertise
  • Library & Archives
    • Overview
    • Reading Room
    • Collections
    • HI Stories
    • News
    • Exhibitions
    • Digital Newsletter
    • About
    • Visit
  • PolicyEd
    • News & Events
    • About Hoover
    • Get Involved
    • Hoover Press
    • Hoover in DC
    • Stanford University
Top
 

Research

  • By Topic
    • COVID-19
    • Economic Policy
    • Education
    • Energy, Science & Technology
    • Health Care
    • Foreign Affairs & National Security
    • History
    • Law
    • US Politics
    • Values & Social Policy
  • By Content
    • Articles
    • Books
    • Videos
    • Podcasts
    • Essays
    • Speeches & Testimony
  • By Research Team
    • China's Global Sharp Power
    • Economic Policy
    • Education Success Initiative
    • Energy Policy
    • Foreign Policy and Grand Strategy
    • History Working Group
    • Middle East and the Islamic World
    • Military History
    • National Security
    • National Security, Tech & Law
    • Taiwan in the Indo-Pacific
  • By Region
    • North America
    • Asia
    • Europe
    • Russia
    • Latin America & Caribbean
    • India/Pakistan/Afghanistan
    • Middle East & North Africa
    • Sub-Saharan Africa

Publications

  • Hoover Publications
    • Hoover Daily Report
    • Defining Ideas
    • Strategika
    • Human Prosperity Project
    • The Caravan
    • Decision 2020
    • China Weekly Alert
    • Governance In An Emerging New World
    • Hoover Digest
    • Eureka
  • Hoover Institution Press
  • Books by Fellows
  • Hoover Channels
    • Military History in the News
    • California on Your Mind
    • Aegis Paper Series
    • Caravan Notebook
    • The Briefing
    • Immigration Reform
    • Advancing a Free Society
  • PolicyEd
  • Fellows Blogs
    • Economics One
    • Grumpy Economist
    • Victor Davis Hanson
    • EconLog
    • LawFare
    • Paul Gregory's Writings
    • Thoughtful Ideas
    • Show Me The Math
  • Economics Working Papers
  • Video Series
    • Uncommon Knowledge
    • GoodFellows
    • Battlegrounds: International Perspectives
    • Policy Briefings
    • PolicyEd
    • American Conversation Essentials
    • The Numbers Game
    • Fellow Talks
    • Hoover Videos
  • Podcasts
    • Area 45
    • EconTalk
    • The Classicist
    • Law Talk
    • The Libertarian
    • Reasonable Disagreements
    • The Grumpy Economist
    • The Pacific Century
    • Talks from Hoover
    • Education Exchange

Fellows

  • By Name
  • By Awards
  • By Category
  • By Expertise

Library & Archives

  • Reading Room
    • Using The Reading Room
    • Reading Room Services
    • Using the Chiang Diaries
    • Frequently Asked Questions
  • Collections
    • Digital
    • Geography
    • Subject
    • Oral Histories
    • Audio/Visual
  • News
  • HI Stories
  • Exhibitions
  • Digital Newsletter
  • About
    • History
    • Fellowships
    • Assistant Employment
    • Workshops
  • Visit

    PolicyEd

    • PolicyEd Website
      • Intellections
      • Perspectives on Policy
      • Policy Stories
      • Friedman Fundamentals
      • Policy Briefs
      • Econ1 w/ John Taylor
      • The Numbers Game
      • Blueprint for America

    You are here

    1. Home ›
    2. Peter Berkowitz ›
    3. Education ›
    4. Finance & Leadership ›
    5. Values & Social Policy

    Filter By:

    Date

    E.g., 2021-01-19
    to
    E.g., 2021-01-19

    Topic

    • (-) Remove Education filter Education
      • (-) Remove Finance & Leadership filter Finance & Leadership
      • Federal Policy (4) Apply Federal Policy filter
      • K-12 Reform (4) Apply K-12 Reform filter
      • Teachers & Teaching (1) Apply Teachers & Teaching filter
    • (-) Remove Values & Social Policy filter Values & Social Policy
      • Culture (6) Apply Culture filter
      • Race & Gender (3) Apply Race & Gender filter
      • Values (7) Apply Values filter
    • Economic Policy (2) Apply Economic Policy filter
    • Energy, Science & Technology (1) Apply Energy, Science & Technology filter
    • Foreign Affairs & National Security (1) Apply Foreign Affairs & National Security filter
    • History (4) Apply History filter
    • Law (1) Apply Law filter
    • US Politics (4) Apply US Politics filter

    Type

    • Research (8) Apply Research filter
    Clear

    Search

    Peter Berkowitz

    Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow

    Peter Berkowitz is the Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Since 2019, he has been serving on the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff in the office of the secretary. He is a 2017 winner of the ...

    E.g., 2021-01-19
    E.g., 2021-01-19

    Berkowitz discusses liberal bias on college campuses on KQED’s Forum

    Research | Podcasts
    Wednesday, April 4, 2012

    Peter Berkowitz, the Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, discusses whether or not students at the University of California are receiving a biased and compromised education from activist professors.

    The Golden State's Me Generation

    Research | Articles | by Peter M. Robinson
    Friday, March 5, 2010

    In the midst of the Great Recession California students protest in favor of themselves. . . .

    What is a University For?

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Saturday, December 1, 2007

    Peter Berkowitz on Education’s End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life  by  Anthony T. Kronman

    John Hennessy: The Exit Interview

    Research | Articles | by Peter M. Robinson
    Friday, October 21, 2016

    The outgoing Stanford president reflects on the founding, and the future, of a truly great university. 

    Empowering Students through School Choice, with Betsy DeVos

    Research | Podcasts
    Monday, June 3, 2019

    AUDIO ONLY

    The 11th US secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, talks about how she’s empowering students and parents to find the best education through her school choice proposal. 

    Rebels With a Cause: Themselves

    Research | Articles | by Peter M. Robinson
    Wednesday, April 21, 2010

    Students turn protest into another form of narcissism. By Peter Robinson.

    Men with a Mission

    Research | Articles | by Tom Shachtman
    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.

    Bilingual Education: A Critique

    Research | Essays | by Peter J. Duignan
    Tuesday, September 1, 1998

    Bilingual education has been a subject of national debate since the 1960s. This essay traces the evolution of that debate from its origin in the Civil Rights Act (1964) and the Bilingual Education Act (1968), which decreed that a child should be instructed in his or her native tongue for a transitional year while she or he learned English but was to transfer to an all-English classroom as fast as possible. These prescriptions were ignored by bilingual enthusiasts; English was neglected, and Spanish language and cultural maintenance became the norm.

    Bilingual education was said to be essential for the purposes of gaining a new sense of pride for the Hispanics and to resist Americanization. The Lau v. Nichols (1974) decision stands out as a landmark on the road to bilingual education for those unable to speak English: bilingual education moved away from a transitional year to a multiyear plan to teach children first in their home language, if it was not English, before teaching them in English. This facilitation theory imprisoned Spanish speakers in classrooms where essentially only Spanish was taught, and bilingual education became Spanish cultural maintenance with English limited to thirty minutes a day. The essay discusses the pros and cons of bilingual education.

    Criticism of bilingual education has grown as parents and numerous objective analyses have shown it was ineffective, kept students too long in Spanish-only classes, and slowed the learning of English and assimilation into American society. High dropout rates for Latino students, low graduation rates from high schools and colleges have imprisoned Spanish speakers at the bottom of the economic and educational ladder in the United States.

    This revolt, the defects of bilingual education, and the changes needed to restore English for the Children are covered in the essay. The implications of Proposition 227 abolishing bilingual education in California are also discussed.

    More from Hoover

    Featured Fellow

    George P. Shultz

    George Pratt Shultz is the Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow at the Hoover Institution.

    Learn More »

    Featured Publication

    Ten Years In: Implementing Strategic Approaches To Cyberspace

    This book represents a look beyond theories and analogies to examine the challenges of strategy implementation.

    Learn More »

    Support the Hoover Institution

    Join the Hoover Institution’s
    community of supporters in
    advancing ideas defining a free
    society.

    Find out how »

    colored tree
    Gift icon
    • Research
    • Publications
    • Fellows
    • Library & Archives
    • News & Events
    • About Hoover

    Get Involved »

    Help Advance Ideas Defining a Free Society

    Become engaged in a community that shares an interest in the mission of the Hoover Institution to advance policy ideas that promote economic opportunity and prosperity, while securing and safeguarding peace for America and all mankind.

    The opinions expressed on this website are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Hoover Institution or Stanford University.

    • Twitter
    • YouTube
    • Apple iTunes
    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • RSS
    Tomorrow join @HooverInst Senior Fellow @LTGHRMcMaster & Permanent Rep. of Germany to the UN Christoph Heusgen for… t.co/aXaMGs1YZF
    Reply Retweet @HooverInst

    © 2021 by the Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University.

    • Privacy Policy
    • Sitemap (XML)