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Eric Hanushek

    Author Website: http://www.hanushek.net


    Author Bio:

    Eric Hanushek is the Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University.  He has been a leader in the development of economic analysis of educational issues, and his work on efficiency, resource usage, and economic outcomes of schools has frequently entered into the design of both national and international educational policy.  His research spans such diverse areas as the impacts of teacher quality, high stakes accountability, and class size reduction on achievement and the role of cognitive skills in international growth and development.  His pioneering analysis measuring teacher quality through student achievement forms the basis for current research into the value-added of teachers and schools. 

    He is chairman of the Executive Committee for the Texas Schools Project at the University of Texas at Dallas, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a member of the Koret Task Force on K-12 Education.  He currently serves as chair of the Board of Directors of the National Board for Education Sciences.

    His newest book, Schoolhouses, Courthouses, and Statehouses : Solving the Funding-Achievement Puzzle in America's Public Schools, describes how improved school finance policies can be used to meet our achievement goals.  Prior books include Courting Failure, the Handbook on the Economics of Education, The Economics of Schooling and School Quality, Improving America’s Schools, Making Schools Work, Educational Performance of the Poor, Education and Race, Modern Political Economy, Improving Information for Social Policy Decisions, and Statistical Methods for Social Scientists, along with numerous widely-cited articles in professional journals.

    He previously held academic appointments at the University of Rochester, Yale University, and the U.S. Air Force Academy.  Government service includes being Deputy Director of the Congressional Budget Office, Senior Staff Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers, and Senior Economist at the Cost of Living Council.  He has been appointed to a variety of policy commissions including the Governor’s Committee on Education Excellence in California and the Governor’s Commission for a College Ready Texas.  He is a member of the National Academy of Education and the International Academy of Education along with being a fellow of the Society of Labor Economists and the American Education Research Association.  He was awarded the Fordham Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in 2004.    

    He is a Distinguished Graduate of the United States Air Force Academy and completed his Ph.D. in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  He served in the U.S. Air Force from 1965-1974.  (http://www.hanushek.net) 


Articles

An Effective Teacher in Every Classroom

A lofty goal, but how to do it?

Summer 2010 / Vol. 10, No. 3


Total Student Load

Review of William Ouchi’s The Secret of TSL

Spring 2010 / Vol. 10, No. 2


Many Schools Are Still Inadequate, Now What?

Is court involvement in school spending essential to reform, or can we use education funding to drive reforms that promise better outcomes for students?

Fall 2009 / Vol. 9, No. 4


Education and Economic Growth

It’s not just going to school, but learning something while there that matters

Spring 2008 / Vol. 8, No. 2


The Confidence Men

Selling adequacy, making millions

Summer 2007 / Vol. 7, No. 3


RAND versus RAND

What Do Test Scores in Texas Tell Us? by Stephen P. Klein et al.

Spring 2001 / Vol. 1, No. 1


Deconstructing RAND

Improving Student Achievement: What NAEP State Test Scores Tell Us by David W. Grissmer et al.

Spring 2001 / Vol. 1, No. 1


The Seeds of Growth

The United States became the world’s economic superpower over the course of the 20th century. But can today’s education system be counted on to fertilize growth in the future?

Fall 2002 / Vol. 2, No. 3


Lost Opportunity

Increased economic growth, fueled by improvements in student performance, might have funded the nation’s entire K–12 education budget by now

Spring 2003 / Vol. 3, No. 2


High-Stakes Research

Accountability works after all

Summer 2003 / Vol. 3, No. 3


The Revolving Door

A path-breaking study of teachers in Texas reveals that working conditions matter more than salary

Winter 2004 / Vol. 4, No. 1


Pseudo-Science and a Sound Basic Education

Checked:
“The New York Adequacy Study:
Determining the Cost of Providing All Children in New York an
Adequate Education,” American
Institutes for Research and Management Analysis and Planning
(March 2004).
“Resource Adequacy Study for the New
York State Commission on Education Reform,”
Standard & Poor’s School Evaluation
Service (March 2004).
“Report and Recommendations of the
Judicial Referees,” in Campaign
for Fiscal Equity, Inc., [...]

Fall 2005 / Vol. 5, No. 4


Blog Posts/Multimedia

Compared to Other Countries, Does the United States Really Do That Badly in Math?

Many Americans were shocked to learn how poorly U. S. students were doing when the Program on International Student Assessment released its study of math achievement for 2006. But educators were encouraged in December 2008 when another respected international survey, Trends in Mathematics and Science Study, released results from its math testing for 2007. Have we unfairly maligned our schools?

07/12/2010

Why Is Reform So Hard?

Many people find it hard to believe that student performance has been flat for four decades when we have more than tripled funding for schools and when we have put into place a number of reform measures. The recent discussions in Congress, however, shed some light on this.

07/01/2010

Research and Policy: Master’s Degrees

There are a variety of educational policies that simply conflict with research. One of the largest is pay for master’s degrees.

06/14/2010

Florida Positions Itself at the Forefront

Over the past decade, Florida has shown its laser-focus on student performance. Beginning with Jeb Bush and his able and imaginative education team, Florida moved forward on a reform agenda. Now it is showing additional leadership by moving aggressively on issues of teacher quality.

04/07/2010

A Clearer Picture on Charter Schools

The effectiveness of charter schools in raising student achievement has become an intensely debated issue. When we last considered this topic, the Department of Education was pushing charter schools but dueling studies introduced uncertainty. A new study by CREDO clears up the uncertainty.

01/11/2010

What To Do About NCLB

Three separate lines of inquiry provide evidence that existing accountability systems have led to larger gains than expected in a world without them. At the same time, accountability is a relatively new invention, and it needs to be refined and improved.

11/09/2009

Court Mandates on School Funding Sharply Decline

Since 2005, there have been important adequacy case decisions in over a dozen states, and in none of them have the courts required further funding increases. Several courts, when deciding new adequacy cases, have either dismissed them based on separation of powers grounds or have ruled against the plaintiffs on the merits following a trial.

11/03/2009

Why are Some Environments Better than Others for Charter Schools? Today’s Policy Question

This has been a good year for evidence on the effectiveness of charters, highlighted by a major national study from CREDO and a new study in the continuing work from New York City. Nonetheless, understanding and interpreting the scientific research within the political and media environment is made more difficult by the political context.

10/08/2009

The Supreme Court Gets School Funding Right

One sleeper in the flurry of decisions at the end of the last U.S. Supreme Court term has to be the decision in Horne v. Flores, a long-running Arizona case about funding special programs for English Language Learners (ELL). In overturning lower court decisions calling for continued court-ordered school spending without regard to student outcomes, the Court may lead to a new era of more rational and effective court involvement in school funding policies.

09/15/2009

Will Horne v. Flores Affect School Finance Litigation?

Video: Eric Hanushek talks with Education Next about the recent Supreme Court decision on school spending in Arizona, and considers the ruling’s impact on state school finance litigation.

08/15/2009

Schoolhouses, Courthouses, and Statehouses

Video: Hoover Institution senior fellows and members of Hoovers Task Force on K12 Education Terry Moe and Eric Hanushek discuss Hanushek’s new book Schoolhouses, Courthouses, and Statehouses.

06/10/2009

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