During the last decade, Dallas Independent School District overhauled its system for evaluating and compensating teachers and began a new program to attract teachers to hard-to-staff schools. The ...

Eric Hanushek, the Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University, has long been one of the leading educational economists of our time. He has authored books and ...

A University of Georgia education professor today responds to a recent interview I did with Stanford economist Eric Hanushek about his new study on the achievement gap. Peter Smagorinsky, a frequent ...

Malcolm Gladwell on how to spot great teachers (and why we should want to): Eric Hanushek, an economist at Stanford, estimates that the students of a very bad teacher will learn, on average, half a ...

Eric Hanushek, a senior fellow with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University whose writings on education economics have held more sway in Texas and abroad than in his own California backyard, is ...

With the National Board for Education Sciences still down five of 15 members and with more expected to go at the end of November, outgoing chairman Eric Hanushek told me the board couldn’t wait for ...

Noted economist Eric Hanushek has determined a dollar value in lost lifelong earnings and states’ economic growth as a result of the drop in learning during the pandemic. In California, it is huge, ...

Eric Hanushek, the Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University, has long been one of the leading educational economists of our time. He has authored books and ...

Eric Hanushek is the Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. He is a leader in the development of economic analysis of educational issues. He has authored ...

In his more upbeat moments, Stanford economist Eric Hanushek believes improving schools is possible and successful reform models exist to point the way. However, he says, “When I wake up on the ...

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Re “End Class-Size Straitjacket,” Opinion, April 27: Eric Hanushek’s comment that “pupil-teacher ratios have fallen nationally to under 16-1 today” makes my blood boil, and I am sure raised the ...