Hoover Institution
Terry Moe of the Hoover Institution is the editor of this collection of essays comprising the first major project of Hoover's Koret Task Force on K-12 Education. It contains eleven essays, one per task force member (including yours truly) that seek to introduce the "general reader" to key topics and issues in American education. These include school spending (Eric Hanushek), school achievement (Herb Walberg), how the system works (John Chubb), "American Traditions of Education" (Diane Ravitch), teacher unions (Moe), curriculum (E.D. Hirsch), school choice (Paul Peterson) and so on. (My essay is on teachers.) This 324-page tome can be gotten from Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, Stanford CA. The ISBN is 0-8179-9942-6. You can also surf to www.hoover.org though the book is so new I can't yet find it on the website.
