America’s Students Flounder while Education Reformers Virtue Signal
The school-reform movement’s best chance to get back on track is staring reformers in the face. Will they take it? And will it be enough?
Diane Ravitch’s Credibility in Dispute
For some reason, when a prominent policy expert completely changes her position on an issue, her views are thought to have extra credibility. So when Diane Ravitch, an education historian ...
Where the Unemployment Isn’t
This year, when you hear President Obama and congressional Democrats talk about increasing government spending to create jobs, you should understand that it isn’t really about jobs. It’s about paying ...
End the Special-Ed Racket
Vouchers can reduce false diagnoses of learning disabilities while helping both the truly disabled and the misdiagnosed.
The Problems with Special Ed
Officially reported disability rates in public schools are entirely unreliable and are almost certainly inflated indicators of how many students are actually disabled. Eventually, school and government officials are going ...
Vouchers: Not Dead Yet
The Washington, D.C., voucher program is not dead yet. Congress has set its execution date, slipping a provision into last month’s omnibus spending bill to end the program unless it ...
Change that Won’t Happen . . . Thankfully
The Democrats’ 2008 campaigns, congressional and presidential alike, were all about change. But judging by education’s share of the $819-billion stimulus package that passed the House last week, we should ...
A Special Plan for Palin
Sometimes even the greatest joys bring challenge. And children with special needs inspire a special love. To the families of special-needs children all across this country, I have a message: ...
My Question re: Stern, McCluskey, and Ponnuru
Maybe I’m missing something, but what exactly is this conflict about? Can’t we advocate both for effective instructional practices and improvement through competition? Some of us may focus more on ...
Union Days
There was a time when Harvard stood for the Union. Almost 600 of its sons fought for the North in the Civil War, nearly one-quarter of whom gave their lives. ...