Opinion
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EDventures ’98: Bridging the Gap Between Education and Business
Opinion -From charter schools to vouchers, from distance learning to contracting out, America is in the midst of an education revolution that is moving forward on many fronts, according to Wayne B. -
Local Voucher Program on Hold
Opinion -The voucher program offered as a model by Philadelphia Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua is the local voucher measure adopted in April by the school board in Pennsylvania's Southeast Delco School District, which gives parents vouchers of different dollar -
Angels Program Distributes First Miami Vouchers
Opinion -Just five weeks after the program was announced, Miami Inner City Angels (MICA) awarded $1,000 tuition vouchers to 100 Overtown children who were selected by lottery from the 600 scholarship applications. -
Study: KC Dollar Deluge Fails to Raise Test Scores
Opinion -After doing everything educators claim is needed to increase student achievement--reducing class sizes, lowering teacher workloads, hiking teacher pay, and dramatically increasing per-pupil spending--Kansas City has learned the hard way that none of it -
Charter School Offers ‘Learning Guarantee’
Opinion -Parents who send their children to Boston's Academy of the Pacific Rim Charter School get more than promises about student learning: they get a "Learning Guarantee. -
The Education Industry Report
Opinion -News and emerging trends in the $650 billion education industry are reported monthly in The Education Industry Report, from the St. Cloud, Minnesota-based Education Industry Publishing Group. -
Latinos Do Better in LA’s Catholic Schools
Opinion -Nationwide, nearly one in ten Latinos fail to finish high school. That isn't the case with Latinos in Catholic schools, even those schools in the heart of inner-city Los Angeles. For example, some 97. -
How Legislators Can Spur Innovation in Education
Opinion -Ohio industrialist David Brennan has a message for all those who think that charter schools, pilot voucher programs, and private scholarships already have brought significant changes to public education: "We haven't scratched the surface of what can be -
After 15 Years, Nation Is Still at Risk
Opinion -Fifteen years after the publication of A Nation At Risk, the United States remains engulfed in "a sea of educational mediocrity," according to an education reform group of prominent business executives, academics, lawmakers, and educators. -
Milwaukee Voucher Decision Appealed to U.S. Supreme Court
Opinion -The American Civil Liberties Union, People for the American Way Foundation, and National Education Association have asked the United States Supreme Court to review a Wisconsin Supreme Court decision upholding the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program. -
U.S. Workers Paid Billions to Read
Opinion -Good reading skills are important not only to school-age children, but also to adults in the daily performance of their jobs. Reading proficiency has huge economic and social significance in the US, notes Herbert J. -
U.S. Schools: Low Achievement at High Cost
Opinion -Compared to schools in more than twenty other economically advanced countries, schools in the United States are the least productive, according to a report from the Washington, DC-based Thomas B. Fordham Foundation. -
American Education Imperils American Dream
Opinion -If we knew how to cure cancer and didn't do anything about it, people would be outraged. Why is education so different? -
Does Head Start Make a Difference?
Opinion -In operation for 33 years at a cost of over $30 billion, the federal government's touted Head Start early childhood development program has never been subjected to a valid, useful study of how well it works. -
… Norquist Calls for Further Expansion
Opinion -On August 4, Milwaukee Mayor John O. -
ALEC Celebrates 25 Years at Annual Meeting in Chicago
Opinion -The American Legislative Exchange Council's 25th Anniversary Annual Meeting was held in Chicago, Illinois, on August 18-22, 1998. -
While Opponents Call for More Regulation …
Opinion -Having lost the court battle on vouchers, the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction proposed--but was quickly forced to withdraw--a new strategy to limit participation in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program. -
Profiting from Education
Opinion -Many public school teachers and administrators are disdainful of the notion that private companies should be permitted to profit by providing educational services to children. -
Solving the Great Education Mystery
Opinion -"The public education system will not reform itself." That was Chester E. Finn Jr. -
It’s Hard to Go Back to Building Widgets
Opinion -"Just a kid from the streets of Philadelphia" who put himself through eight years of night school, A.J. "Jack" Clegg truly understands the value of education in changing the lives of city children. -
Floridians Say Competition Will Improve Public Schools
Opinion -A new survey shows Florida voters have a definite interest in the idea of public schools operating in a competitive environment, with 60 percent of respondents saying that competition will improve public schools. -
Low Scores Bedevil Other High-Spending Efforts
Opinion -Much like Kansas City, Missouri, St. George's County, Maryland, underwent a 12-year effort to raise academic achievement levels in a group of nearly all-black schools. -
Bad Teachers across the Nation
Opinion -Ineffective teachers are preventing students from learning in schools in Kansas City, Missouri, according to a recent report from a team of education consultants. -
Education Being Emasculated, Says Prof
Opinion -As a direct consequence of reforms prompted by the 1983 report, A Nation at Risk, "big government is moving in on education" in the United States, according to Aldo S.