Recent Research: Education

Research & Commentary: Reform Unionism

Joy Pullmann
August 26, 2011

As school choice and competition measures eke into the American education system, the implications are becoming clear to the nation’s three million public school teachers and the unions to which ma

Research & Commentary: School Funding Lawsuits

Joy Pullmann
August 15, 2011

With state and local governments tightening their belts in response to falling tax revenues caused by the bad economy, school districts facing cuts are increasingly resorting to lawsuits to force g

Research & Commentary: Online Learning and Related Technology

Joy Pullmann
August 8, 2011

Online K-12 education is growing rapidly as lawmakers authorize state-run or -approved virtual education options such as single classes from myriad operators and entire virtual schools.

Research & Commentary: Teacher Evaluations

Joy Pullmann
July 28, 2011

Taxpayers and state governments are increasingly acting on the principle that teachers should receive evaluations of their work, to measure their effectiveness and ensure better education for stude

Research & Commentary: High-Stakes Tests and Cheating in Atlanta

Joy Pullmann
July 11, 2011

An investigative report from Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal’s office charges 178 Atlanta Public Schools teachers and administrators with falsifying students’ state standardized tests.

Research & Commentary: Teacher Evaluations

Joy Pullmann
July 1, 2011

Teachers receive job evaluations much like workers in other professions; except the “satisfactory” rates for teaching usually lie somewhere in the high 90th percentiles, according to an Education N

Research and Commentary: Blaine Amendments

Joy Pullmann
June 28, 2011

Thirty-eight states have Blaine Amendments to their constitutions, which prohibit public dollars from supporting religious private schools.

Research & Commentary: National ‘Common Core’ Curriculum Standards

Joy Pullmann
June 23, 2011

The Common Core State Standards Initiative, supported and created by the National Governors Association and Council of Chief State School Officers, sets grade-by-grade content requirements for K–12

Research & Commentary: National and State Standardized Tests

Joy Pullmann
June 21, 2011

As Congress gears up to reauthorize No Child Left Behind, the largest federal law on education, and various school districts display the fruits of the act’s mandated testing, experts have begun to

Research & Commentary: Early Learning Challenge

Joy Pullmann
June 21, 2011

Under the federal government’s "Early Learning Challenge" for state early education and childcare programs, states will offer a proposal, then follow through if they win a grant.