Opinion
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IJ Launches School Choice Offensive
Opinion -After the U.S. Supreme Court awarded control of the constitutional battlefield to voucher advocates on June 27, the Institute for Justice didn’t waste time celebrating the victory. -
Just the Facts: Sources and Uses of Public Education Dollars
Opinion -Total expenditures on U.S. K-12 public education and other related programs in the 1999-2000 school year were $381.9 billion, up an impressive $26.1 billion, or 7.3 percent, from 1998-99. Total revenues for the same period were 97. -
National Elections Bring School Choice Advocates to the Forefront
Opinion -The school choice community will lose two of its Congressional champions when House of Representatives Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-Texas) and Rep. Bob Schaffer (R-Colorado) retire at the end of this session. -
To Improve, Public Schools Need Competition, Not More Money
Opinion -State Education Superintendent Robert E. Schiller must think Illinois taxpayers are pretty gullible if he thinks he can sell the idea that our public schools need more money to produce better results (Voice of the People, November 9, 2002). -
Still No Choice for Poor and Minority Students
Opinion -Millions of children were left behind as the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) reform began to take effect this fall. -
Already Booming, Tutoring Receives Large NCLB Boost
Opinion -In search of the best possible education, Americans already spend more than $5 billion a year on private tutoring. -
Declining Literacy a Threat to Newspapers
Opinion -U.S. newspapers have a life-or-death interest in schoolchildren being taught how to read and becoming motivated to read regularly. The trends are not encouraging—for literacy or for newspapers. -
Ballot Initiatives Used to Reform Bilingual Education
Opinion -Theodore Roosevelt, the country’s 26th President, was a firm believer in the ballot initiative as an instrument “not to destroy representative government, but to correct it whenever it becomes misrepresentative. -
NEA September 11 Web Site Draws Criticism
Opinion -An essay recommending parents and educators not “suggest any group is responsible” for last year’s terrorist attack on the World Trade Center brought the National Education Association’s new Web site, “Remember September 11th,” under heavy criticism from -
Paige Backs Parental Choice at Meeting of State Legislators
Opinion -On August 8, U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige addressed a large and supportive audience of state elected officials at the American Legislative Exchange Council’s 29th Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida. -
10/2002 The Friedman Report and School Choice Roundup
Opinion -BAEO Leader Wants Parents “Overwhelmed” with Opportunities by Laura J. -
Ready or Not, Education Is Changing
Opinion -More than 360 education entrepreneurs, investors, computer specialists, writers, foundation staff, and policy experts gathered on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia on July 25-27 for the EDVentures 2002 Conference, organized by -
Entrepreneurial Leadership Award
Opinion -AEPP’s 2002 James P. Boyle Entrepreneurial Leadership Award was presented to Dr. Ellyn Lerner, president of KIDS 1, Inc., which operates specialized private schools and related services for students facing learning and social challenges. -
Hold Schools Accountable for Cost of Finished Graduate
Opinion -U.S. taxpayers paid on average $108,730 to produce each 1998 high school graduate. -
If the Curriculum Has No Content, What’s Left to Teach?
Opinion -Although U.S. K-12 education has proven remarkably impervious to efforts aimed at structural reform, efforts aimed at curriculum reform have been much more successful. -
Illinois Court Upholds Parental Rights
Opinion -Saying the law violates the due process rights of a surviving parent, the Illinois Supreme Court in April struck down a state statute giving grandparents the right to sue for visitation rights to their grandchildren when one parent is deceased. -
Just the Facts: Student Achievement
Opinion -Just the Facts: Student Achievement ACT Scores SAT Scores National Assessment of Educational Progress Percent scoring at or above proficient ACT Average Composite (2002) % of Grads Tested % of Grads Tested Mean Verbal (2002) Mean Math -
Latest Test Scores Show Value of Tough Curriculum
Opinion -Good news on student performance: This year, 41 percent of high school students who took the SAT test had an A grade point average, compared to only 31 percent 10 years ago. -
Together, We Can Do It: an exclusive interview with U.S. Senator George V. Voinovich
Opinion -“Together, we can do it.” That was U.S. Senator George V. Voinovich’s motto when, at the request of local community leaders, he resigned the job of lieutenant governor of Ohio and took over as mayor of the bankrupt City of Cleveland in 1979. -
U.S. Educators Ignoring the Lessons of History
Opinion -The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. -
Voucher Advocate Takes Charge at Children First America
Opinion -In August, Tampa businessman and leading school choice advocate John Kirtley was named president and CEO of Children First America (CFA), a school choice organization formed 10 years ago to extend nationwide the privately funded scholarship model created -
Teachers Shortchanged by Education Bureaucracy
Opinion -The Education Intelligence Agency recently issued a report that presents education statistics from a different angle, ranking states and school districts by measures such as teacher compensation as a percentage of instructional spending, number of -
Disabled Children Need a Better IDEA
Opinion -It began in 1975 as a federal enactment intended to safeguard the individual rights of disabled children. -
Camden Is First to Call for Vouchers
Opinion -The first shot fired in the post-Cleveland phase of the school voucher battle was heard in the City Council Chambers of Camden, New Jersey, on July 25, less than a month after the U.S.
