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Education is Still a Priority
Opinion -Many parents, students, community leaders, and spokespersons have recently participated in a real partisan debate about who should run the country. -
Inspection Failures Compromise School Safety
Opinion -While parents may have a reasonable expectation that their child's public school--as a facility owned and operated by the government--would be a safe structure that has passed local construction and fire inspection requirements, recent reports from -
Educating Minnesota about School Choice
Opinion -Tim Sheehy, president of the Metro Milwaukee Association of Commerce, believes school choice provides his Wisconsin city with a competitive advantage over other Midwest cities. That's why, on a recent visit to St. -
Charter School Studies: Apples to Apples vs. Apples to Oranges
Opinion -The New York Times created consternation in the charter school community when it gave favorable front-page coverage to an American Federation of Teachers (AFT) study purporting to show charter students score lower on national assessments of reading and -
GAO Weighs in on NCLB Compliance
Opinion -"How is the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act going?" was one question many of the nation's education researchers and policy analysts found themselves asked repeatedly as summer waned and Election Day approached. -
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U.S. Education Policy at a Crossroads: Stop the Waste, or Waste More?
Opinion -Drawing its evidence almost entirely from official sources such as the U.S. -
Appeals Court Will Reconsider Florida Voucher Ruling
Opinion -When the First District Court of Appeal struck down Florida's Opportunity Scholarship program in August, the decision was made by just two judges on a three-judge panel of the court. -
Sacrificing for Her Son
Opinion -Like most eight-year-olds, Abraham Larner is in third grade. His path to get there, though, has been quite a challenge. -
Contributing Editor Now Promotes Spirit of America
Opinion -Pamela Riley, then with the Pacific Research Institute, was one of the original group of contributing editors to School Reform News when the newspaper was first published in January 1997. For much of the past year, she worked as a U.S. -
Where Are They Now?
Opinion -Some of School Reform News' early contributing editors are now making much bigger contributions to education ... and to the nation. Jeff Flake Formerly executive director of the Goldwater Institute, Jeff Flake is serving his second term in the U.S. -
Power to the Principal
Opinion -"My recommendation would be to turn every single school in the district into a charter school and to turn the central office into a support center for the charter schools. -
November 2004 Friedman Report: School Choice Roundup
Opinion -STATE ROUNDUP Colorado * Florida * Georgia * Illinois * Maryland New Mexico * Utah * Wisconsin COLORADO Colorado Teacher Union Offers College Credit for Political Support A Colorado teacher union local, the Jefferson County Education -
Saving the St. Louis School District from Bankruptcy
Opinion -Until St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay and four members of the city's board of education voted to hire the consulting firm Alvarez & Marsal in the spring of 2003, William V. -
Top 10 Myths about No Child Left Behind … and Why You Shouldn’t Believe Them
Opinion -If you listen to media reports on the implementation and costs associated with the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB), you've been bombarded by a slew of misinformation. Below are 10 common myths about NCLB ... and the facts to debunk them. -
California Charter Schools Short-Changed on Special Education Funds
Opinion -According to a recent survey from the Los Angeles-based Reason Foundation, California's charter schools are reducing the number of students labeled as "special education" by using aggressive early intervention strategies such as "neverstreaming" to keep -
Challenge Continues to Massachusetts Blaine Amendment
Opinion -The Massachusetts Constitution not only contains an 1800s-era Blaine Amendment--an "Anti-Aid Amendment" barring any portion of the common school fund from going to "sectarian" schools--it also contains a 1917 "Religious Exclusion" amendment that bars the -
Paige Honored with Education Leader Award
Opinion -When Rod Paige first came to Indiana in the 1950s, it was as a college student to earn a master's degree and a doctorate from Indiana University. When he returned to Indiana State recently, it was as the U.S. -
Re-Opening Schools in Iraq
Opinion -In December 2003 I became U.S. advisor to Iraq's Ministry of Education. Strapped into a parachute seat, I was flown into Baghdad in a C130 military transport plane, with stomach-turning air maneuvers to avoid mortar and rocket attacks. -
Study: NBPTS Teachers Produce Only Tiny Gains
Opinion -Soon the education world will have a mass of reports to digest on the relative effectiveness of teachers who receive certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS). -
U.S. Education Gets Low Grade on ALEC Report Card
Opinion -"Overall, the facts presented by this year's Report Card on American Education give us no cause for celebration. -
Where Do Public School Teachers Send Their Kids to School?
Opinion -Public school teachers in urban areas are far more likely than city residents in general to send their children to private schools, according to a new analysis of 2000 Census data by researchers led by Denis P. -
A Vision Realized: Atlanta’s Tech High Charter School
Opinion -More than three years after the Georgia Public Policy Foundation (GPPF) first began laying the groundwork for an innovative math, science, and technology charter high school in the Atlanta Public Schools (APS) system, Tech High Charter School started its -
Feminists Are Challenged to Support School Choice
Opinion -Feminist groups are out of touch with women on the issue of education, concludes a new study by Carrie L. Lukas for the Independent Women's Forum (IWF).
