Recent Research: Education

Research & Commentary: Digital Textbooks

Joy Pullmann
February 13, 2012

The Obama administration has announced it wants every child in the nation to have an e-textbook by 2017.

Research & Commentary: Louisiana Education Reforms

Joy Pullmann
February 13, 2012

In January 2012, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) proposed policies that would shift the state’s education system toward greater accountability, freedom, and choice.

The Leaflet - National School Choice Week A Big Success

John Nothdurft
February 9, 2012

Another successful National School Choice Week is in the books, and what a success it was.

Research & Commentary: School Funding that Follows the Child

Joy Pullmann
January 31, 2012

The idea of education funding following the child has several names, such as weighted student funding, backpack funding, fair-student funding, student-based budgeting, and results-based budgeting.

Research & Commentary: Civic Education

Joy Pullmann
January 31, 2012

Often lost in the attention rightly paid to students’ poor achievement in math and reading is that civic knowledge and participation have been sliding for decades in the United States.

The Leaflet - The State of the States

John Nothdurft
January 26, 2012

This week was President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address, and in many states the governors’ State of the S

Research & Commentary: Early Childhood Education

Joy Pullmann
January 26, 2012

In November 2011, President Barack Obama restructured Head Start funding to require competitive grants for the least effective providers, to forestall congressional Republicans seeking to limit or

Research & Commentary: Race to the Top, Year One

Joy Pullmann
January 24, 2012

One-quarter of the states receiving part of the $4 billion in federal Race to the Top grants are in danger of losing those grants by failing to keep promises made to win them, said Education Secret

Research & Commentary: The College Bubble

Joy Pullmann
January 23, 2012

U.S. student loan debt has increased 500 percent since 1999, and the cost of college has risen 400 percent since the 1980s.

The Leaflet - National School Choice Week

John Nothdurft
January 19, 2012

On Saturday, January 21, National School Choice Week 2012 will kickoff in New Orleans, Louisiana.