Koret Task Force
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The Koret Task Force on K–12 Education is a group of senior education scholars brought together by the Hoover Institution
, Stanford University
, who work collectively as well as individually on American public education reform issues. The task force was created in 1999 as part of the Hoover Institution’s Initiative on American Educational Institutions and Academic Performance. The group conducts original research and assessments of a broad variety of K–12 education issues, policies, and practices.
The task force supports three core education reform principles: accountability, choice, and transparency. In its scholarship and writing, the group has advanced reforms that ensure rigorous academic standards and assessments, competition among schools, parental choice, results-based performance incentives, and public access to information about every school and school system. The task force has written on such issues as accountability and academic achievement, charter schools, curriculum and learning standards, education finance issues, the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act
, the politics of public education, and teacher certification, professional development, and incentive pay structures. The group has advised, among others, congressional leaders and staff, governors and state legislators, state education officers, and officials at the U.S. Department of Education. The members of the task force have provided testimony before legislatures, courts, and governmental and policy organizations. Their articles and commentaries appear frequently in the pages of major publications, as well as on broadcast and electronic media. In addition to its research and analysis, the Koret Task Force serves as the editorial board of the Hoover-affiliated journal Education Next.
and a professor emeritus of education and humanities at the University of Virginia
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Hoover Institution
The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace is a public policy think tank and library founded in 1919 by then future U.S. president, Herbert Hoover, an early alumnus of Stanford....
, Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
, who work collectively as well as individually on American public education reform issues. The task force was created in 1999 as part of the Hoover Institution’s Initiative on American Educational Institutions and Academic Performance. The group conducts original research and assessments of a broad variety of K–12 education issues, policies, and practices.
The task force supports three core education reform principles: accountability, choice, and transparency. In its scholarship and writing, the group has advanced reforms that ensure rigorous academic standards and assessments, competition among schools, parental choice, results-based performance incentives, and public access to information about every school and school system. The task force has written on such issues as accountability and academic achievement, charter schools, curriculum and learning standards, education finance issues, the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act
No Child Left Behind Act
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 is a United States Act of Congress concerning the education of children in public schools.NCLB was originally proposed by the administration of George W. Bush immediately after he took office...
, the politics of public education, and teacher certification, professional development, and incentive pay structures. The group has advised, among others, congressional leaders and staff, governors and state legislators, state education officers, and officials at the U.S. Department of Education. The members of the task force have provided testimony before legislatures, courts, and governmental and policy organizations. Their articles and commentaries appear frequently in the pages of major publications, as well as on broadcast and electronic media. In addition to its research and analysis, the Koret Task Force serves as the editorial board of the Hoover-affiliated journal Education Next.
Members
Current members of the Koret Task Force are- John E. Chubb, a founding partner, executive vice president, and chief education officer of Edison SchoolsEdison SchoolsEdisonLearning Inc., formerly known as Edison Schools Inc., is a for-profit education management organization for public schools in the United States and the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1992 as The Edison Project, largely the brainchild of Chris Whittle...
and a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution.
- Williamson M. Evers, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution (on leave). Evers has been nominated by President George W. BushGeorge W. BushGeorge Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....
to be assistant secretary of education for planning, evaluation, and policy development at the U.S. Department of Education.
- Chester E. Finn Jr., chairman of the Koret Task Force and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and president and trustee of the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation.
- Eric A. Hanushek, the Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, chairman of the Executive Committee for the Texas Schools Project at the University of Texas at Dallas, and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic ResearchNational Bureau of Economic ResearchThe National Bureau of Economic Research is an American private nonprofit research organization "committed to undertaking and disseminating unbiased economic research among public policymakers, business professionals, and the academic community." The NBER is well known for providing start and end...
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- Paul T. Hill, the John and Marie Corbally Professor at the University of WashingtonUniversity of WashingtonUniversity of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The university has three campuses, with its largest campus in the University...
's Daniel J. Evans School of Public AffairsDaniel J. Evans School of Public AffairsThe Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington in Seattle is a school of public policy in the Northwest....
, director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education, and a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution.
- Caroline M. Hoxby, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, professor of economics at Stanford University, and the director of the Economics of Education Program for the National Bureau of Economic Research.
- Terry M. Moe, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the William Bennett Munro Professor of Political Science at Stanford University.
- Paul E. Peterson, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government and the director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard UniversityHarvard UniversityHarvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
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- Herbert J. Walberg, a University Scholar at the University of Illinois at ChicagoChicagoChicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
and a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution.
Members Emeritus
E. D. Hirsch Jr. is a member emeritus of the Koret Task Force on K–12 Education. He was a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution from 1999 to 2006. Hirsch is the founder and chairman of Core Knowledge FoundationCore Knowledge Foundation
The Core Knowledge Foundation is an independent, non-profit, non-partisan educational foundation founded in 1986 by E. D. Hirsch, Jr. The Foundation is dedicated to excellence and fairness in early education.-Ideals of Core Knowledge:...
and a professor emeritus of education and humanities at the University of Virginia
University of Virginia
The University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson...
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Publications
The publications of the Koret Task Force include- Education Next: A Journal of Opinion and Research (quarterly)
- Charter Schools against the Odds (Education Next Books, 2006)
- Courting Failure: How School Finance Lawsuits Exploit Judges' Good Intentions and Harm Our Children (Education Next Books, 2006)
- Reforming Education in Florida (Hoover Institution Press, 2006)
- Reforming Education in Arkansas (Hoover Institution Press, 2005)
- Within Our Reach: How America Can Educate Every Child (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, in association with the Hoover Institution, 2005)
- Reforming Education in Texas (Hoover Institution Press, 2004)
- Our Schools and Our Future ...Are We Still at Risk? (Hoover Institution Press, 2003)
- Choice with Equity (Hoover Institution Press, 2002)
- School Accountability (Hoover Institution Press, 2002)
- A Primer on America's Schools (Hoover Institution Press, 2001)