Obama’s Education Legacy: Overreach and Misrule
On education, the Obama administration overreached in its dictation of policy to states and districts, uniting Left and Right against D.C. bureaucracy.
In Defense of For-Profit Colleges
Unless you follow education policy closely, you probably don’t know who Representative John Kline is. But just a few weeks ago, lefty talk-show host and comedian Bill Maher declared the ...
Bind Us Together? Not in Public Schools
The ongoing federal shutdown offers a powerful lesson about public schools, and it’s not just that you can’t count on checks from D.C. It is something much more basic: When ...
The Battle for Education Freedom
Under the guise of voluntary measures, and obscured by nebulous terminology, the nationalization of what your children will learn has been proceeding apace. And Congress is working right now on ...
Here Come the Federal Education Standards
The Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCSSI), a joint project of the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) — no bureaucracy there, folks ...
One Student Aid Right Sure Doesn’t Fix All the Wrongs
President Obama has declared passage of student-aid reform — which he signed into law this morning — a major accomplishment, one that is especially terrific for would-be college students and, ...
Run Away from ‘Common’ Education Standards
A couple of days ago, Fordham Institute president Chester Finn declared on NRO that conservatives should embrace new, national education standards from the Common Core State Standards Initiative. What he ...
Where’s the Evidence?
If you listen to advocates of national education standards — from the Obama administration to the conservative Thomas B. Fordham Institute — you’ll seldom hear anything about “evidence” or “research.” ...
Battleground Stakes
All around the country, children are boarding school buses, mounting bikes, or heading out on foot for another year of battling ignorance. Meanwhile, adults are mobilizing for their own educational ...
Open the Gates
Bill Gates and Eli Broad didn’t become billionaires by tinkering around with hopeless old models. Gates got rich selling the world new computer software it needed and wanted, while Broad’s ...