School Reform: The Critical Issues, a new book from Pacific Research Institute & Hoover Press, brings education leaders and journalists together on K-12 education reform
Press Release
6.13.2002
 For Immediate Release, June 3, 2002
 San Francisco, CA — A recent book from the Pacific Research Institute and Hoover Press showcases leading education-reform advocates and journalists and provides a comprehensive look at the problems in public K-12 education today. School Reform: The Critical Issues explores a wide range of issues including teacher quality, teaching methods, accountability and standards, testing, spending, school management, and teacher unions.
Contributors include Lynne Cheney, Thomas Sowell, Milton Friedman, Debra Saunders (San Francisco Chronicle), Richard Lee Colvin (Los Angeles Times), and Checker Finn. The authors also examine the widespread success of alternatives to public education, from the diversity of options available through private schooling and charter schools to the growing popularity of home schooling. “In order to effect real and long-lasting change, it is necessary to understand the basic nature of our education problems and the remedies that address them,” say editors Williamson M. Evers, Lance T. Izumi, and Pamela Riley. “Parents, journalists, school board members, and legislators will find in this primer everything they need to know about the education debate,” adds Izumi. ### | Contact: | To schedule an interview or for a hard copy of School Reform, call
Julie Majeres at 415-989-0833 ext. 120 or jmajeres@pacificresearch.org |
Williamson M. Evers is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and a member of its Koret Task Force on K-12 Education. Co-editors Lance T. Izumi and Pamela A. Riley are the director and associate director, respectively, of the Center for School Reform at the Pacific Research Institute.
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