Eric Hanushek
| Eric A. Hanushek | |
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Eric Hanushek speaking in 2012
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| Born |
May 22, 1943 Lakewood, Ohio |
| Nationality | American |
| Institution |
Stanford University University of Rochester Yale University |
| Field | Education economics |
| Alma mater |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States Air Force Academy |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Eric Alan Hanushek (born May 22, 1943) is an economist who has written prolifically on public policy with a special emphasis on the economics of education. Since 2000 he has been a Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, an American public policy think tank located at Stanford University in California.
Hanushek received a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Air Force Academy in 1965 and a PhD in economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1968. He served in the U.S. Air Force from 1961 to 1974. Hanushek held teaching positions at the U.S. Air Force Academy (1968–73) and at Yale University (1975–78) and was named professor of economics and public policy at the University of Rochester from 1978–2000.
Hanushek advocates using economic analysis to in order to improve student performance. He has authored numerous, highly cited articles on the effects of class size reduction, high-stakes accountability, teacher effectiveness, and other education related topics. In a 1971 paper he introduced the concept of evaluating teacher effectiveness on the basis of student learning gains. This idea is the basis of value-added assessments of teacher quality. In his most recent book, The Knowledge Capital of Nations, Hanushek concludes that the quality of education is causally related to economic growth.
He states that his findings show no systematic relationship between the amount of money spent in an American school and the amount of student learning in a given district, and therefore he generally opposes increases in school funding to achieve overall reductions in class size, for example. For this reason he is associated, especially by his detractors, with the slogan "money doesn't matter". Hanushek explains his position this way:
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