Opinion
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Charter Law Puts Indianapolis Mayor in Driver’s Seat
Opinion -Imagine a city where the mayor has the power to start new public schools. Imagine a mayor who can encourage private-sector participation in solving today’s education woes. Difficult to imagine? Yes ... but in Indianapolis, that’s the reality. -
More School Choice Lessons from Abroad
Opinion -The aim of paying teachers in India’s government schools four times what they would make in private schools was to make them better teachers, noted British researcher James Tooley in a recent issue of The Spectator. They also have lifetime job security. -
Mother’s Education Markedly Affects School Readiness
Opinion -Children's school readiness skills vary markedly by demographics, with mother's education level and family income being the most important factors. -
Parents Must Have the Power to Choose: an exclusive interview with Lawrence C. Patrick III
Opinion -"This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. ... Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God's children." Martin Luther King Jr. -
Ten Myths of Reading Instruction
Opinion -Managing Editor’s note: This is a condensed version of a more detailed article available under the same title at the Web site of the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory at http://www.sedl.org/reading/topics/myths.html. -
Vouchers Improve Public Schools
Opinion -Opponents of school choice frequently argue that giving parents vouchers will hurt the public schools, resulting in bad schools producing even worse educational achievement for their students. -
‘Bounty’ Funding Pushes More Kids into Special Ed
Opinion -Does the prospect of getting more money--a “bounty”--for each extra special education student persuade some educators to identify more children as disabled? -
Glad You Asked!
Opinion -The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) give parents options for transferring their children out of schools needing improvement to better-performing public school. On December 4, the U.S. -
Table: State-by-State Cost Per Proficient Fourth-Grade Reader
Opinion -Cost Per ProficientFourth-Grade Reader State NAEP Student Achievement: % scoring at or above proficient in Grade 4 reading (1998) % Annual Current Expenditure Per Pupil (1997-98) $ Cost to Produce a Proficient Fourth-Grader in 1998 ($ x 5)/% -
Private Schools Don’t Skim the Best Disabled Students
Opinion -Despite several studies demonstrating such claims to be false, critics of school vouchers continue to claim private schools would skim the best students from public schools, leaving public schools to handle all the difficult-to-educate students. -
02/2003 The Friedman Report: An Educator’s Journey
Opinion -Dr. Alberta Wilson had become emotionally drained. -
Taking the Parent out of the National PTA:an exclusive interview with Charlene K. Haar
Opinion -“PTA parents in general are concerned about what’s happening at their local schools, and the PTA leadership at the local schools deserves a great deal of praise: They do all of the work and raise all of the money that supports the state organization as -
College Vouchers Could Provide Model for K-12
Opinion -Instead of paying more than $460 million to Colorado’s colleges and universities to provide a hidden subsidy for the tuition charged to the state’s 200,000 students, a nine-member blue-ribbon panel appointed by Governor Bill Owens has proposed giving -
Keeping Track of Advocacy Groups in Education
Opinion -Since K-12 education is not only one of the most important sectors in the U.S. -
ALEC Issues Report Card on U.S. Education
Opinion -In October 2002, the American Legislative Exchange Council released its ninth edition of the Report Card on American Education: A State-by-State Analysis, 1976-2001. Written by Andrew T. LeFevre and Rea S. Hederman Jr. -
The Cost of Producing a Proficient Student
Opinion -Fourth grade marks the point that proficient students stop learning to read, and start reading to learn. -
Summer Institute Offered for High School Teachers
Opinion -For the past two summers, the Bill of Rights Institute has conducted a week-long professional development course on the Bill of Rights for high school teachers of U.S. history and government. -
02/2003 The Friedman Report: State Roundup
Opinion -Arkansas * Louisiana * New York * Oklahoma Rhode Island * Utah * Wisconsin ARKANSAS Opponents Will Consider Voucher Bill Even voucher opponents indicated they would consider a bill filed for the upcoming legislative session by Arkansas House -
DC Schools Chief Blasts Scholarship Program
Opinion -Privately funded scholarship programs that give low-income families access to private schools in Washington, DC dupe black mothers into sending their children to “inferior Catholic schools” that are no better than the public school system, the -
Educational Vouchers and Tax Credits
Opinion -SCHOOL VOUCHERS Florida Opportunity Scholarships go to families with children in schools that receive an F on the state report card for two years out of a four-year period, for use in any participating private school or another public school -
Just the Facts: Teacher Salaries
Opinion -The nation’s most prolific producer of education statistics is, not surprisingly, the U.S. -
Rees Takes Helm at Office of Innovation and Improvement
Opinion -“If Washington insists on investing in the nation’s schools, then it is fair for taxpayers to expect their dollars to yield a positive return. -
School Choice Initiatives Launched in the Old Dominion
Opinion -Two members of the Virginia House of Delegates are proposing that the 2003 session of the legislature advance both vouchers and tax credits as ways to expand K-12 education choice in the Old Dominion. -
Suburban Schools Offer No Sanctuary from Dumbing-Down Regime
Opinion -Class Warfare: Besieged Schools, Bewildered Parents, Betrayed Kids and the Attack on Excellence by J.
