Opinion
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Voices for School Reform
Opinion -During the past six and a half years, School Reform News has interviewed more than 60 school reform advocates. Although all of these interviews are available online, they are organized there only by date, perhaps not the most helpful structure. -
A Guide to State Regulation of Private Schools
Opinion -While parents may have the right to direct the education of their children in a private school, states still have the power to regulate those schools in various ways. What regulations are imposed in different states? -
NCLB Prompts Districts to Re-Examine Technology Plans
Opinion -Technology and K-12 Education While the past decade has seen entrepreneurs seize the new opportunities offered by a browsable Internet, low-cost connectivity, and cheap digital video devices to develop innovative cyberschools serving widely -
NEA’s ‘Technical Amendments’ Would Gut No Child Left Behind
Opinion -At a time when the nation is prosecuting its war on terrorism across four continents and chasing down deadly remnants of Iraqi armies, the National Education Association has chosen to battle against “federal requirements to make significant decisions -
States Are Providing More Choice Options
Opinion -Asking the questions is easy: How is school choice progressing? Overall? By state? Within a state? By type of program? Where do we have vouchers? Individual tax credits? Corporate tax credits? Charter schools? Who’s involved in my state? -
Push for Accountability Is Changing Public Education
Opinion -During the three days of the Education Industry Association’s annual conference, EDVentures 2003, the unmistakable mood of the almost 400 business representatives and educators who attended was one of optimism for the prospects of the entrepreneurial -
Head Start Reforms Meet Resistance
Opinion -On July 25, the House of Representatives voted 217-216 to approve H.R. 2210, the School Readiness Act. -
Diplomas Denied as Seniors Fail Exit Exams
Opinion -If students can’t pass a test on what they are supposed to have learned in school, should they still get a high school diploma? -
Ed Schools ‘Out of Touch’ with Public, Say Critics
Opinion -As debate heated up this summer over using federal aid to reform teacher preparation and licensing, a forum at the American Enterprise Institute moderated by Second Lady Lynne Cheney posed a provocative question: Can education schools be saved? -
Nonpublic Schools and the Courts
Opinion -David W. Kirkpatrick School Reform News is pleased to welcome back David W. Kirkpatrick as a contributing editor. Kirkpatrick is a senior education fellow with the U.S. Freedom Foundation, for which he writes a weekly education column. -
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.
