Editorials: Education

Heartland Institute Experts React to State of the Union Address

Jim Lakely
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February 13, 2013
Here is the reaction of many Heartland Institute staffers, scholars, fellows, and policy advisors to President Obama's first second-term State of the Union address.   

Parent Trigger Shifts the Balance

Joy Pullmann
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February 07, 2013
The nation's third invoking of a Parent Trigger, in Los Angeles, disproves the charges of many critics of the 2010 California law.

Some Facts About the Student Testing Wars

Joy Pullmann
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January 31, 2013
Teachers in Washington have raised a national uproar by refusing to administer state tests to their students.

Common Core K-12 Hits Home

Robert G. Holland
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January 15, 2013
Defenders of home schooling are beginning to worry about the Common Core K-12 standards morphing into a national curriculum that will stifle the family-centered creativity that has fostered high ra

VIDEO: Foundation for Excellence School Grading System

Jim Lakely
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January 15, 2013
Our friends at the Foundation for Excellence in Education have just released the first in a series of new, animated policy videos, starting with

The Truth About Armed Guards in Schools

Maureen Martin
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January 12, 2013
Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, was greeted with derision when he proposed placing an armed police officer in every school to protect students.

Teachers Unions Steer Clear of Race to the Top

Joy Pullmann
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December 20, 2012
Teachers unions are infamous for pursuing money and power at children’s expense. It’s ironic when they try to turn down taxpayer money on principle but state and local officials won’t let them.

A Glimmer of Hope

Maureen Martin
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December 13, 2012
In 1994, lawyer Philip Howard wrote a book called “The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suf

Not Washington’s Business

Robert G. Holland
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December 05, 2012
By briefly quoting one critic of the national Common Core education standards, which are shaping curricula and tests for schoolchildren in Pennsylvania and across the nation, the Trib at least did

Emanuel Needs to Pull ‘Mayor Trigger’

Joy Pullmann
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November 19, 2012
Critics of the Parent Trigger for school reform charge it’s a new idea with a short track record.