General Audience Articles
General Audience Articles
(with Minh Nguyen, Ben Ost, and Steven Rivkin). Education Next. Spring 2025
In Margaret E. Raymond (ed.). How to Improve our Schools in the Post-COVID Era, Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution. 2021
(with Chester E. Finn Jr.). The State Education Standard, September 20(3), pp. 13-17. 2020
Hoover Education Success Initiative. 2020
(with Marc Piopiunik and Simon Wiederhold). Education Next, 19(2) , pp. 57-64. Spring 2019
In George P. Shultz (ed.). Blueprint for America, Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, pp. 89-108. 2016
(with Jens Ruhose and Ludger Woessmann). Education Next, 16(3) , pp. 16-24. Summer 2016
(with Paul E. Peterson and Ludger Woessmann). Education Next, 14(4), pp. 8-18. Fall 2014
In Chester E. Finn Jr. and Richard Sousa (ed.). What lies ahead for america's children and their schools, Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 23-35. 2014
(with Gregory F. Branch and Steven G. Rivkin). Education Next, 13(1), pp. 62-69. Winter 2013
In Norberto Bottani and Daniele Checchi (Ed.). La Sfida Della Valutazione, Bolgna, IT: Società Editrice il Mulino, pp. 39-46. 2012
(with Ludger Woessmann)
. World Bank, Washington, DC, 27 pages. Jul-07
Education Next, pp. 49-55. Spring 2012
Education Next, 11(3), pp. 40-45. Summer 2011
In Darrel Drury and Justin Baer (ed.). The American Public School Teacher: Past, Present, and Future, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press), pp. 109-118. 2011
In Koret Task Force. American Education in 2030: An Assessment by Hoover Institution’s Koret Task Force on K–12 Education, Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution. 2010
in Karl Weber (ed.). Waiting for "Superman": How We Can Save America’s Failing Public Schools. New York: Public Affairs, pp. 81-100. 2010
(with Kati Haycock)
. Education Next, 10(3), pp. 46-52. Summer 2010
In Dan Goldhaber and Jane Hannaway (ed.). Creating a New Teaching Profession, Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press, pp. 165-180. 2009
Peabody Journal of Education, 82(4), pp. 574-586. Oct-07
(with Steven G. Rivkin)
. Future of Children, 17(1), pp. 69-96. Spring 2007
General Audience Articles
(with Bradley Strauss). In Nuno Crato and Harry Patrinos (ed.). Improving National Education Systems After COVID-19: Moving Forward After PIRLS 2021 and PISA 2022, Springer, 189-203. 2024
(with G. William Hoagland, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Glenn Hubbard, Maya MacGuineas, Richard V. Reeves, Robert D. Reischauer, Gerard Robinson, Isabele V. Sawhill, Diane Schanzenbach, Richard Schmalensee, Michael R. Strain, and C. Eugene Steuerle). Grand Bargain Committee. July 2024
(with Bradley Strauss). Hoover Education Success Initiative. 2024
In Stephen L. Bowen and Margaret E. Raymond (ed.). A Nation at Risk +40, Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution, 161-179. 2023
Hoover Education Success Initiative. 2023
In Margaret E. Raymond (ed.). How to Improve our Schools in the Post-COVID Era, Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution. 2021
(with Ludger Woessmann). Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. 2020
In Lindsay M. Burke and Jonathan Butcher (ed.). The Not-So-Great Society, Washington, DC: Heritage Foundation, pp. 45-51. 2019
(with Paul E. Peterson, Laura M. Talpey, and Ludger Woessmann). Education Next, 19(3), pp. 8-17. Summer 2019
In Scott W. Atlas, Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, Eric A. Hanushek, Edward P. Lazear, Lee Ohanian, Joshua D. Rauh, and Frank A. Wolak. Economic Policy Challenges Facing California’s Next Governor, Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, pp. 19-23. Oct-18
Education Next, 16(2), pp. 22-30. Spring 2016
In Ingrid Gould Ellen, Edward L. Glaeser, Eric A. Hanushek, Matthew E. Kahn, and Aaron M. Renn. The Next Urban Reaissance: How Public-Policy Innovation and Evaluation Can Improve Life in America’s Cities, New York: Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, pp. 25-40. 2015
In María de Ibarrola and D.C. Phillips (ed.). Leaders in Educational Research, Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, pp. 93-105. 2014
In Denis C. Phillips (ed.). Encyclopedia of Educational Theory and Philosophy, Los Angeles: SAGE Reference, pp, 4-7. 2014
(with Paul E. Peterson and Ludger Woessmann). Education Next, 12(4), pp. 24-33. Fall 2012
(with Paul E. Peterson and Ludger Woessmann). PEPG Report No. 12-03. Jul-12
(with Paul E. Peterson, Ludger Woessmann, and Carlos Xabel Lastra-Anadón)
. Education Next, 11(4), pp. 51-59. Fall 2011
(with Paul E. Peterson, Ludger Woessmann, and Carlos Xabel Lastra-Anadón)
. PEPG Report No. 11-03, Cambridge, MA: Program on Education Policy and Governance, Harvard University. Aug-11
Teaching Math to the Talented: Which Countries - and States - are Producing High-Achieving Students?
(with Paul E. Peterson and Ludger Woessmann). PEPG Report No. 10–19, Cambridge, MA: Program on Education Policy and Governance, Harvard University. Nov-10
(with Ludger Woessmann) in Dominic J. Brewer and Patrick J. McEwan (ed.)
. Economics of Education (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2010), pp. 60-67. 2010
(with Ludger Woessmann)
. Paris: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, pp. 1-55. 2010
(with Alfred A. Lindseth and Michael A. Rebell)
. Education Next, 9(4), pp. 49-56. Fall 2009
(with Dean T. Jamison, Eliot A. Jamison and Ludger Woessmann)
. Education Next, 8(2), pp. 62-70. Spring 2008
Education Next, 7(3), pp. 73-78. Summer 2007
In Robert C. Enlow and Lenore T. Ealy. Liberty and Learning: Milton Friedman’s Voucher Idea at Fifty, Washington, DC: Cato Institute, pp. 67-79. 2006