“Through its vision and focused grantmaking, Koret has succeeded in shifting the education debate onto what truly works in raising the achievement of students.”
—Lance Izumi
Director of Education Studies, Pacific Research Institute
In addition to supporting individual schools and students, Koret aims to improve K–12 education by working with think tanks, research institutes, and other policy organizations to effect change at a systemic level.
The Hoover Institution strives to address big‐picture issues, offering ideas with broad applications and internally consistent implications. The institution works to collect knowledge pertaining to economic, political, and social changes in societies at home and abroad, as well as to understand their causes and consequences; to analyze the effects of government actions relating to public policy; to generate, publish, and disseminate ideas that encourage positive policy formation using reasoned arguments and intellectual rigor, converting conceptual insights into practical initiatives judged to be beneficial to society; and to convey to the public, the media, lawmakers, and others an understanding of important public policy issues thus promoting vigorous dialogue.
Founded in 1979, the Pacific Research Institute (PRI) is a nationally renowned, San Francisco–based free‐market think tank that champions individual freedom, opportunity, and personal responsibility by advancing practical, free market policy solutions. In addition to producing what Milton Friedman has called some of the most “innovative and effective” policy research in the world, the institute also aggressively markets and disseminates these ideas to policymakers, opinion leaders, and the public at large. PRI’s premiere new education research project, Not As Good As You Think: Why the Middle Class Needs School Choice, moves forward from its last publication, an analysis of charter school best practices called Free to Learn.
The Thomas B. Fordham Institute advances the reform of American education by engaging in solid research and provocative analysis, disseminating information and ideas that shape the debate, and informing policymakers at every level about promising solutions to pressing education problems. The institute strives to address America’s academic achievement by raising standards, strengthening accountability, and expanding education options for parents and families.
The Center for Education Reform (CER) works in over 40 states, advocating for high standards, accountability, and freedom of choice in education reform. The center also provides grassroots training by working with specific communities to foster positive, competitive education reforms. To support its advocacy for charter schools and parent choice in education, CER combines grassroots tactics with a sophisticated marketing strategy to reach its target audience.
The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) comprises 60 resident scholars and fellows, including some of America’s foremost economists, legal scholars, political scientists, and foreign policy experts. The resident faculty is augmented by a network of more than 70 adjunct scholars at universities and policy institutes throughout the United States and abroad. AEI’s education policy projects have included an examination of the No Child Left Behind Act; rather than producing a holistic assessment of the law or a simple evaluation of its complex provisions AEI examined what these measures look like in practice, how they are being modified and implemented at the state and district level, and what lessons policymakers might learn.