Opinion
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Charter Schools Fuel School Management Growth
Opinion -While large-scale privatization efforts like the Philadelphia experiment may be politically difficult, nationwide the growth of charter schools continues to fuel the growth of both for-profit and nonprofit education service providers. -
Title I Tutoring Vouchers?
Opinion -Work-study programs are not the only way to engage college students in tutoring programs. -
Race and Education: An Exclusive Interview with Abigail Thernstrom
Opinion -The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent 5-4 ruling in Grutter v. -
Principal Hiring ‘Idiocy’
Opinion -The recent experience of a Georgia publisher “helping” to hire a new school principal for the Atlanta Public Schools indicates it’s not only the teacher hiring process that leaves much to be desired. -
Valedictorian Flunks Graduation Test
Opinion -School officials in Beaufort County, South Carolina, have institutionalized grade inflation by guaranteeing their high school students a minimum first-semester grade of at least 62 out of 100, so students who start the year badly aren’t prevented from -
Just the Facts: Student Achievement
Opinion -Just The Facts: Student Achievement National Assessment of Eduational Progress Tests ACT Scores SAT Scores Percent of public school students scoring at or above proficient ACT Average Composite (2003) % of HS Grads Tested % of HS Grads -
Philadelphia’s Privatization Experiment Produces Gains
Opinion -One year after the nation’s largest school privatization experiment began in Philadelphia, the competition between restructured city schools, privately managed schools, and charter schools has led to significant gains in student achievement for -
NCLB Puts Spotlight on Public School Performance
Opinion -This summer, state departments of education identified which public schools “need improvement” after failing to make “adequate yearly progress” for two years in a row under the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act. -
10/2003 Friedman Report School Choice Roundup
Opinion -Colorado * District of Columbia * Florida * Illinois Louisiana * Michigan * New Jersey COLORADO New Charter Tries Same-Sex Classes Colorado’s James Irwin Charter Middle School will be trying same-sex classrooms this Fall. -
When Schools Compete, Good Things Happen
Opinion -Numerous studies in recent years have shown student achievement and parental satisfaction improve when families use vouchers to choose private schooling. -
Congress Returns to Tackle DC Vouchers, Other Thorny Votes
Opinion -As August recess dwindled away and Capitol Hill repopulated, Members and staff were abruptly reminded they had left town with many of the year’s thorniest education votes still before them. -
10/2003 Friedman Report Profile: A Convert to School Choice
Opinion -At one time, Missouri House Education Committee Chairwoman Jane Cunningham thought Mae Duggan, Missouri’s First Lady of school choice activism, was “nuts. -
Administrators Stonewall NCLB in Colorado
Opinion -Public school districts across the state of Colorado broke the law last year, failing to properly notify parents of essential information about a new federal law. -
How Tough Is Louisiana’s Math Exit Exam?
Opinion -Bridget Green’s failure to graduate high school because she persistently failed to pass Louisiana’s Graduate Exit Exam (GEE) prompted local test critic C.C. Campbell-Rock to imply the GEE was a tough test to pass. -
Paradoxical Ruling Appealed to Washington Supreme Court
Opinion -What if you had the right to assume people who refused to join your organization nevertheless wanted to support your political agenda? -
Study Shows Teacher Hiring Practices Need Work
Opinion -Is it low pay that causes the teaching profession to have so few males and minorities, as the nation’s largest teacher union contends? A convincing counter-argument can be made that it is the profession’s burdensome entry barriers--i.e. -
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Stage Set for DC Voucher Showdown
Opinion -The stage is nearly set for the final act of this year’s Congressional showdown on school vouchers for the District of Columbia. -
Choice Programs Remain Tiny and Restrictive
Opinion -Last summer, supporters of school choice hailed Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, the historic Supreme Court decision upholding Cleveland’s school choice program, as an important victory. -
Voucher Growth Depends on Schools Willing to Participate
Opinion -In Florida, leading Democratic lawmakers are making a concerted pitch to impose additional regulations, audits, and oversight on the hundreds of private schools that accept scholarships funded by the state’s corporate tax credit program. -
Wrong Start?
Opinion -Although supporters of Head Start and other preschool programs for underprivileged children maintain such efforts are a remarkably cost-effective way of raising student achievement in both the short term and the long term, the reality painted by -
Mixed Bag from the Nation’s Report Card
Opinion -Over the summer of ‘03, the Nation’s Report Card brought home tons of new data on the reading and writing prowess of America’s fourth-, eighth-, and 12th-graders. -
Commentary: Operation Educational Freedom
Opinion -We in Colorado are proud of becoming the first state to enact a voucher program since last year’s U.S. Supreme Court decision. -
09/2003 The Friedman Report: School Choice Roundup
Opinion -District of Columbia * Florida * New Jersey * New York Ohio * Oregon * Pennsylvania * Texas * Utah * Wisconsin DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Feinstein Endorses Voucher Proposal In an unexpected Washington Post editorial, California Democratic Senator
