Hoover Education Summit: 'What are the Stakes? A Global Perspective?' w/ Hanushek and Schleicher

Recorded March 10, 2022

A conversation with Eric Hanushek, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution and
Yidan Prize Laureate for Education Research, and Andreas Schleicher, Director of Education, OECD
. The US is not alone in confronting serious education challenges. How vital is improvement of education systems to public and economic welfare?

Eric Hanushek is the Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the
Hoover Institution of Stanford University. He is internationally
recognized for his economic analysis of educational issues,
and his research has had broad influence on education policy
in both developed and developing countries. In 2021, he
received the Yidan Prize for Education Research. His widely-cited studies span
such topics as the effects of class size reduction, school accountability, teacher
effectiveness, and the economic returns to school quality.
He has authored or edited twenty-four books and over 250 articles. He is a
Distinguished Graduate of the United States Air Force Academy and completed
his Ph.D. in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Andreas Schleicher is Director for Education and Skills at the OECD. He initiated and oversees the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and other international instruments that have created a global platform for policy-makers, researchers and educators across nations and cultures to innovate and transform educational policies and practices.
He has worked for over 20 years with ministers and education leaders to improve education. Former U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said that Schleicher “understands the global issues and challenges as well as or better than anyone I’ve met, and he tells me the truth”. Former UK Secretary of State Michael Gove called Schleicher “the most important man in English education” – even though he is German and lives in France.
He is the recipient of numerous honours and awards, including the “Theodor Heuss” prize, awarded in the name of the first president of the Federal Republic of Germany for “exemplary democratic engagement”. He holds an honorary Professorship at the University of Heidelberg.

ABOUT THE HOOVER INSTITUTION EDUCATION SUMMIT

The Hoover Institution Education Summit was held on March 9-10, 2022 at Stanford University. The convening of this inaugural event comes at a critical inflection point in K-12 education as the COVID-19 pandemic exposed an education system that is ripe with opportunity for reform. The event showcased the broad base of support that exists for bringing new ideas and energy into K-12 education in our country. The program was designed to engage and foster fact-based critical thinking through interactive sessions on the most important policy issue of the day – educating our children and educating them well.

[tp]

A complete wrong perception and fact that technologies remove jobs, this is pure political motivated thinking. Technologies helps people in many ways, higher pay, better working environment, higher production, and most importantly improve the safety and hardness for people to work.

[alankwellsmsmba]

What a career in IT taught me was that learning is lifelong. More, it is non-linear, what one learns in vertical A often has components applicable to vertical B. If any one thing *could* be taught it would be that all learning has value and that curiosity is the most valuable skill that if can be taught, should be.

[michelecampanelli]

Fortune GLOBAL 500 is a good way to assess worldwide Long Life Learning

[strwind]

The education system is completely outdated. The skills they teach at school has very little use after students get into the real world.