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August 21, 2008
Cash Incentives for Students and Teachers Boosts Performance on SAT and Advanced Placement Tests
Independent research shows Texas program has biggest impact on Minority students. Read the full article, "Cash for Test Scores" by C. Kirabo Jackson
August 13, 2008
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera Materials in the Hoover Institution Archives
The large crowds visiting the Frida Kahlo exhibit now at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art testify to the enduring interest in the life and works of this unusual artist, whose fame now eclipses that of her husband, Diego Rivera, the celebrated Mexican muralist.
August 12, 2008
Confidence in Public Schools and NCLB Declining, Democrats Favored to Fix Nation's Education Problems, Education Next/PEPG National Survey Finds
Findings Also Show Most Americans Oppose Income-Based Integration and Mainstreaming Special Education. Read the full article, "The 2008 Education Next-PEPG Survey of Public Opinion" by William G. Howell, Martin R. West, and Paul E. Peterson
August 12, 2008
From Hoover Press: Greener Than Thou, by Terry L. Anderson and Laura E. Huggins
For many policy makers, whoever can outgreen the other gets to set the regulation, and if you don’t jump on the bandwagon, you risk being left behind altogether...
August 11, 2008
From Hoover Press: Liberty versus the Tyranny of Socialism, by Walter E. Williams
“Economics, more than anything else, is a way of thinking,” says economist and syndicated columnist Walter E. Williams.
August 11, 2008
Jakub Berman’s Papers Received at the Hoover Institution Archives
The private papers of Jakub Berman, one of the most powerful Polish communist politicians of the 1944–56 period, are now available in the Hoover Institution Archives.
July 28, 2008
Workshop on the Credit Crunch and Future Role of the Fed
During the past year, severe stress in the financial markets has given rise to a host of new Federal Reserve actions. The Fed has created a trio of new facilities designed to alleviate the credit crunch and support vulnerable financial firms.
July 21, 2008
Putting Our House in Order: A Guide to Social Security and Health Care Reform by George P. Shultz and John B. Shoven
A former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and an eminent economist, both Hoover Institution fellows, tackle the biggest social issue of our time in the book Putting Our House in Order: A Guide to Social Security and Health Care Reform (W.W. Norton, 2008).
July 17, 2008
Postwar Diaries of Chiang Kai-shek Open for Research on July 18, 2008
The diaries of Chiang Kai-shek from 1946 to 1955 are available to researchers at the Hoover Library and Archives as of July 18, 2008. They join earlier Chiang diaries from 1917 to 1945, which were opened in 2006 and 2007.
July 17, 2008
Hoover Institution Board of Overseers Summer 2008 Meeting
In an overview of the Hoover Institution at this year’s Board of Overseers summer meeting, John Raisian, the Tad and Dianne Taube Director, spoke of Hoover’s accomplishments and plans for growth.
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