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Teachers’ Unions Push Democrats to Oppose Charter Schools
Teachers’ unions and others are pushing Democrats to oppose charter schools, which serve mostly poor, minority students looking for a better education.
The Overheated Reactions to the New AP U.S. History Framework
Last week, the College Board released its revised Advanced Placement U.S. History framework and, to our pleasant surprise, it’s not just better -- it’s flat-out good.
Punishing Achievement in Our Schools
President Obama’s contempt for the Constitution, and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s unfortunate disregard of that document, have been loudly and justly decried by critics of executive overreach. Less heralded, ...
Time for a Reboot
Americans are ambivalent about testing, standards, and accountability in their children’s schools. This is clear from survey results that swing wildly depending on how, exactly, the question is phrased — and ...
Beyond the Common Core
The raucous Common Core debates of recent months have distracted many conservatives from their primary mission in the education wars: ensuring that every state and district in the land moves ...
We’ll Miss You, Michael Gove
Recent revelations suggest that David Cameron’s unexpected move to replace reform-minded education minister Michael Gove (who’s been popular with British conservatives) with Ms. Nicky Morgan might have been triggered by more than ...
The Two Tracks of School Reform
For two decades now, education reformers have promoted a two-track strategy for improving our schools. The first track is standards-based: Set clear, high expectations in core academic subjects; test students ...
Rethinking High School
As waves of reforms and would-be reforms have washed over American public education these past three decades, high schools have mostly stayed dry. Although test scores have risen slightly in ...
Margaret Thatcher, Education Reformer
Foreign policy isn’t all that Margaret Thatcher and her team had in common with Ronald Reagan and his. The 1980s also saw much crossing of the Atlantic — in both directions ...