Hoover Senior Fellow Eric Hanushek Named to Membership in National Academy of Education.STANFORD, Calif. -- Eric A. Hanushek, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace is a public policy think tank and library founded by Herbert Hoover at Stanford University, his alma mater. The Institution was founded in 1919 and over time has amassed a huge archive of documentation related to President of Stanford University Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif.; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1891 as Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (still the legal name). The original campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. David Starr Jordan was its first president. , is one of three pioneers in educational research and policy development chosen for membership in the National Academy of Education. The appointments were announced on May 24 by Lorrie Shepard, president of the National Academy of Education. Also named were William H. Schmidt, codirector of the Education Policy Center and distinguished professor at Michigan State University Michigan State University, at East Lansing; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1855. It opened in 1857 as Michigan Agricultural College, the first state agricultural college. , and Sidney Strauss, chairman of the Department of Education and professor of educational psychology at Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University (TAU, אוניברסיטת תל־אביב, את"א) is Israel's largest on-site university. . Eric Hanushek Eric A. Hanushek is the Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University and an expert on education policy. His main area of interest is the economics of education, focusing on controversial areas of education policy including the class size , the Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow in Education at Hoover and a member of its Koret Task Force The Koret Task Force on K–12 Education The Hoover Institution’s Koret Task Force on K–12 Education is a group of senior education scholars brought together by the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, who work collectively as well as individually on on K-12 Education, was trained as an economist. He is widely recognized for his groundbreaking research on the multi-faceted relationship between economics and education. For decades his work has been the launching pad for public debate that has had national implications for U.S. education policy. His ongoing research spans a number of the most important areas of education policy including the impact of high stakes High Stakes is a British sitcom starring Richard Wilson that aired in 2001. It was written by Tony Sarchet. The second series remains unaired after the first received a poor reception. accountability, class size reduction and the importance of teacher quality. His most recent research has focused on the importance of teacher quality and on how the financing of schools can promote higher student achievement. He is a member of the National Board for Education Sciences. He has also been appointed to Governor Shwarzenegger's Advisory Committee on Education Excellence. The National Academy of Education is an honorary society that currently has 129 members and eight foreign associates. Total membership is limited to 150 scholars. Over the years its members have included other such luminaries as anthropologist Margaret Meade and psychologist Jean Piaget. The National Academy of Education was founded in 1965 to advance the highest quality education research and its use in policy formation and practice. Through the years, the National Academy of Education has organized numerous expert study panels to address pressing issues in education, including such topics as national testing and teacher preparation. |
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