Opinion
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Who Supplies What in the Education Industry?
Opinion -Private-sector businesses make up more than $100 billion of America’s $750+ billion education industry, which includes higher education as well as K-12. -
Huizenga Named Entrepreneur of the Year
Opinion -The Education Industry Association named J.C. Huizenga the winner of the 2003 James P. Boyle Entrepreneurial Leadership Award at the Association’s annual conference in Boston on July 23. -
Under Secretary Endorses Choice Options in Michigan
Opinion -U.S. Under Secretary of Education Gene Hickok recently met with charter school advocates, faith-based and community leaders, and parents in the Detroit area to focus on efforts to improve K-12 education in Michigan. -
Voucher Advocates Motivated by Compassion
Opinion -In his July 21 Letter “Voucher Backers Have a Privatizing Agenda,” Ralph Neas, president of People for the American Way, accurately reports my views on school vouchers but does a disservice to the school choice movement. Mr. -
Voucher Backers Have a Privatizing Agenda
Opinion -Your July 11 editorial “Freeing D.C. Kids” grossly distorts the conclusions of People for the American Way Foundation’s new report on the voucher movement, The Voucher Veneer. Contrary to the assertions in your editorial, the report is not about D.C. -
Teachers Like Tenure But Admit Its Flaws
Opinion -Most of America's public school teachers (58 percent) believe tenure protects teachers from district politics, favoritism, and the threat of losing their jobs to newcomers who would earn less, according to a new survey, titled Stand By Me, from Public -
How School Choice Changed Milwaukee
Opinion -"Freedom to choose has helped revitalize education in Milwaukee, for families and for schools," says former Milwaukee Public Schools board member John Gardener in a new TV film about the Wisconsin city's pioneering school choice program. -
Teacher Unions Promote a Political Agenda
Opinion -Teacher unions are advancing political agendas from Washington, DC down to the local precinct and schoolhouse levels. -
Parents Hail Florida’s Special Ed Vouchers
Opinion -Florida’s program making vouchers available to any special-education student in the state is yielding significant benefits for participants after just three full years of operation. -
Foes Attack Colorado Vouchers
Opinion -When the Institute for Justice pledged to defend the new school choice program Colorado Governor Bill Owens signed into law on April 16, the public interest law firm didn't have to wait long to make good on its promise. -
Brown v. Board Leaves Schools Unequal
Opinion -The Cato Institute of Washington, DC, in cooperation with the Center for New Black Leadership, recently brought together a heavy-hitting group of education reformers and researchers to discuss "Educational Freedom and Urban America: Brown v. -
Stand By Me
Opinion -Only one in three (34 percent) of the public school teachers surveyed for Public Agenda's new report, Stand By Me, is "involved and engaged" in local teacher union activities, and more than half (56 percent) think "the union charges far higher dues -
07/2003 The Friedman Report: Sister with a Cell Phone
Opinion -Sister Mary Michaeline Green has witnessed the transformation of society mirrored in the Louisiana Catholic schools where she has taught for nearly 50 years. -
Computers Could Eliminate Teaching Jobs
Opinion -Computers have replaced teachers for 11 students in a small Christian school in Harrison, Ohio, according to a recent article by Valerie Christopher in The Cincinnati Enquirer. The school is one of only 21 non-public schools in the U.S. -
Power-Shift: Teacher Unions and the Movement for School Choice: an exclusive interview with Terry M. Moe
Opinion -It's unfortunate that readers of the Koret Task Force's book, Our Schools and Our Future ... Are We Still at Risk?" do not come across the chapter by Terry M. Moe on the politics of school reform until almost half-way through the book. -
Support for Vouchers by DC Officials Continues to Grow
Opinion -At a May 9 hearing of the House Government Reform Committee, prominent District of Columbia officials expressed their unprecedented support for bringing vouchers to the District. -
Trends in the Use of School Choice
Opinion -An increasing number of families, particularly those with lower incomes, are participating in public school choice programs and sending their children to schools other than their assigned schools, according to a May 2003 survey report from the U.S. -
07/2003 The Friedman Report: School Choice Roundup
Opinion -California * Connecticut * Florida * Maine * New York Ohio * Pennsylvania * Texas * Washington * Wisconsin CALIFORNIA Schools Get Vouchers (from Microsoft) To settle antitrust claims in California, Microsoft Corp. agreed to pay $1. -
New Teacher Union Scandals Exposed
Opinion -Teacher union officials are quick to paste a "scandal" label on any misstep, misstatement, or hint of wrongdoing--intentional or otherwise--by charter school and voucher school operators. -
A How-to Guide for Structured English Immersion
Opinion -A new book by veteran public school teacher Johanna J. Haver, Structured English Immersion: A Step-by-Step Guide for K-6 Teachers and Administrators (Corwin Press, Thousand Oaks, Calif. -
After-School Programs Fall Short
Opinion -A $1 billion federal after-school program that promised to provide "expanded learning opportunities for children and youth" isn't helping most children academically, isn't making children feel safer, and hasn't changed the number of children at home -
Congress Mulls Reform of Teacher Training
Opinion -A strong bid is under way on Capitol Hill to use the pending reauthorization of the federal Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to pressure universities, their professional schools of education, and state departments of education to reform how teachers -
Voucher Wars Will Continue
Opinion -Four recently published books neatly describe the bitter struggle facing many education reformers who have been advocating parental choice using school vouchers. -
13 Zero Tolerance Horror Stories
Opinion -It is a common conceit of many reformers and lawmakers that the problems of society can be solved simply by passing a law--then another, and another. The Volstead Act of 1919 is the best example of such hubris.
