How News Habits Changed in 2004 Andrew Kohut of the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press presented the results of his new national survey of where Americans get their news and what they think of it.
Tuesday, June 8
In Common Sense School Reform, author Frederick Hess, director of
Education Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, argues that effective reform is based on altering the status quo in school systems and
creating an environment where "success is expected, excellence is
rewarded, and failure is not tolerated." Abigail Thernstrom and Thomas Toch, both longtime education policy experts, will comment on Hess's proposal and
discuss their own ideas for school reform.
How can we prevent the next Enron and improve investment choices
throughout the 401(k) system without curtailing individual choice? Leading academic and legal
experts—including Richard Thaler, Alicia Munnell, and Mark Iwry—join industry representatives and others to examine these issues.
This AEI-Brookings Joint Center symposium focuses on the implications
for university-industry relations and features a new working paper on those
relationships by three of the leading experts in the field—professors
David Blumenthal, Eric Campbell, and Greg Koski of Harvard University.
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