DeVos Should Take on Education’s Reformocracy
Betsy Devos should question the orthodoxies of the education-reform movement.
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Preschool has benefits for low-income, but media have irresopnsibly exaggerated the findings of a recent study with a small sample.
Reaping the Whirlwind at Mizzou: Enrollment Plummets
If Mizzou can't deal with protesters' substantive issues without being derailed by ridiculous ones, a 25 percent drop in enrollment is just the start.
How to Fight the Right’s New Fear of School Choice
Conservatives are suddenly afraid that school choice will leave private schools open to government takeover. Here's how choice advocates can address that concern.
Red Tape Comes to Charter Schooling
Charter schools may be the nearest thing to a “safe” 21st-century school reform. Other contenders — such as school vouchers, teacher evaluation, school accountability, or the Common Core — have ...
How Not to Fix No Child Left Behind
This week the House of Representatives will consider a replacement for the obsolete No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act. NCLB was passed in 2001 by a large, bipartisan majority — ...
Education: A Natural Issue for Republicans
The Republicans enjoyed a huge night on Tuesday. And it goes without saying that the results had little (or nothing) to do with education. Gallup’s final poll of what issues ...
Common-Core Critics Can’t Just Say No
At the end of March, Indiana became the first state to repeal the Common Core standards. The aftermath has not been pretty. Critics have raised valid concerns but failed to ...
Politico‘s Voucher Story Is Bogus
This morning, Politico published an attention-grabbing story about how some private schools that teach creationism receive public funding through tuition tax credits and school vouchers.
The top line takeaway of the story: Nearly 1 billion ...
Common Core: A Slippery Slope
Since the effectively national Common Core education standards were unveiled in 2010, advocates have insisted that they’re a “state-led” effort. President Obama declared in the 2011 State of the Union ...