Eric Hanushek on Test-based Accountability, Federal Funding, and School Finance

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🗓️ 10 August 2009

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Eric Hanushek of Stanford University's Hoover Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the current state of education and education policy. Hanushek summarizes the impact of No Child Left Behind and the current state of the charter school movement. Along the way, he and Roberts discuss the role of testing as a way of measuring achievement. The conversation concludes with a discussion of school finance, the role of the court system, and suggestions for improving finance to create better incentives.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:12.5	I'm your host Russ Roberts of George Mason University and Stanford University's Hoover
0:17.3	Institution.
0:18.7	Our website is econtalk.org, where you can subscribe, find other episodes, comment on this podcast,
0:25.8	and find links to other information related to today's conversation.
0:29.9	Our email address is mailadicontalk.org.
0:33.6	We'd love to hear from you.
0:35.4	Today is August 5th, 2009, and my guest is Eric Hannacheck, the Paul and Jean Hanna,
0:44.4	Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
0:48.3	His most recent book, without for the lenseth, is School Houses, Courthouses, and State
0:53.1	Houses, Solving the Funding Achievement Puzzle in America's Public Schools.
0:57.5	Rick, welcome back to Econ Talk.
0:58.9	Thanks so much for having me.
1:00.4	To get us started, I'd like you to give us an overview of what's been happening over
1:04.2	the last few years in the political economy of education, the interface between the political
1:09.1	process and the educational system.
1:11.3	Well, the big event, of course, is the federal involvement through No Child Left Behind
1:17.1	Act.
1:18.5	This insisted that all states have test-based accountability for schools and put in to
1:26.2	law a variety of things that had to be done if kids were failing in schools.
1:32.2	Now, that law actually just put in place something that had been done by a vast majority
1:40.8	of the states before the law went into effect, so it's a continuation.
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