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Hoover Experts Strike Out « InterACT

Hoover Experts Strike Out « InterACT

Hoover Experts Strike Out

Hoover Tower

photo: Jawed Karim (commons.wikimedia.org)

Eleven “education experts” at the Hoover Institution have recently offered up their review of the Best and Worst in American Education, 2010, and totally missed the mark in eight of their ten conclusions. Regarding a math teaching study, and a voucher system in Washington D.C., I don’t have an opinion. On every other count I disagree strongly, and will highlight the worst of their review, leading to the conclusion that this type of thinking