The Hoover Institution’s Koret Task Force on K-12 Education Presents A Debate on School Reform: Curriculum and Instruction or Markets and Choice?
WHAT: A debate between four of the nation's foremost scholars in
education policy on the following resolution:
"Resolved, true school reform demands more attention to
curriculum and instruction than to markets and choice."
-- In Support: Hoover Institution Koret Task Force members Diane
Ravitch, New York University, and E. D. Hirsch Jr.,
University of Virginia (emeritus).
-- In Opposition: Hoover Institution Koret Task Force members
Caroline M. Hoxby, Harvard University, and Paul E. Peterson,
Harvard University.
Moderated by Koret Task Force chairman Chester E. Finn Jr.,
Hoover senior fellow and president of the Thomas B. Fordham
Foundation.
WHEN: Thursday, January 18, 2007
Debate begins promptly at 7:00 p.m.
WHERE: Stauffer Auditorium
Hoover Institution, Stanford University
All media are invited to attend
Koret Task Force Debate Participants
E. D. Hirsch Jr., a member of the Koret Task Force on K—12 Education and a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, is professor emeritus of education and humanities at the University of Virginia. He is the author of several books on education issues, including The Knowledge Deficit and The Schools We Need and Why We Don't Have Them. He is the founder and chairman of the board of the Core Knowledge Foundation.
Caroline M. Hoxby, a member of the Koret Task Force on K—12 Education and a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, is the Allie S. Freed Professor of Economics at Harvard University and director of the Economics of Education Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the National Board for Education Sciences. She is the editor of The Economics of School Choice and College Choices.
Paul E. Peterson, a member of the Koret Task Force on K—12 Education and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, is the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government and director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University. Peterson is the editor in chief of Education Next and author or editor of numerous books on U.S. education, including Choice and Competition in American Education, No Child Left Behind? The Politics and Practice of School Accountability, and The Future of School Choice.
Diane Ravitch, a member of the Koret Task Force on K—12 Education and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, is a research professor at New York University. From 1991 to 1993, she served as assistant secretary of education and counselor to Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander. A historian of American education, she is the author of many books, including The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn, The Great School Wars, and Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms.
Moderator Chester E. Finn Jr., a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, is chairman of the Koret Task Force on K—12 Education and president and trustee of the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation. Formerly a professor of education and public policy at Vanderbilt University, he also served as assistant secretary for research and improvement and counselor to the secretary of the U.S. Department of Education. He currently serves as the senior editor for Education Next.
The Koret Task Force on K-12 Education
The quality and productivity of primary and secondary schooling in the United States have become increasingly urgent questions demanding careful, detached, analytic inquiry. Recognizing this fact, the Hoover Institution, with the support of the Koret Foundation, assembled in 1999 a top-rated team of education policy experts—the Koret Task Force on K—12 Education—to work together to better inform policymakers and give guidance on the most promising pathways to reform. The primary objectives of the task force are to (1) gather, evaluate, and disseminate the existing evidence in an analytic context and (2) analyze reform measures that will enhance the quality and productivity of K—12 education.
In addition to the debate participants, members of the Koret Task Force include John E. Chubb, Edison Schools; Williamson M. Evers, Hoover Institution; Eric A. Hanushek, Hoover Institution; Paul T. Hill, University of Washington; Terry M. Moe, Hoover Institution and Stanford University; and Herbert J. Walberg, University of Illinois at Chicago.
More information about the Koret Task Force can be found at www.KoretTaskForce.org.
The Hoover Institution
The Hoover Institution, founded at Stanford University in 1919, is an interdisciplinary research center for advanced study on domestic public policy and international affairs, with an internationally renowned archive. For more information on the Hoover Institution, visit www.Hoover.org.
Contacts
Hoover Institution, Stanford University
LaNor Maune, 650-723-1454
maune@hoover.stanford.edu
Caleb Offley, 518-573-9175
offley@hoover.stanford.edu
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