Opinion
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Voucher Proposals Flourish Nationwide
Opinion -Although school vouchers were pronounced dead and buried by gleeful opponents after two initiative defeats last November--and also squeezed out of President George W. -
Parents Support Teachers in Maryland Test Scandal
Opinion -School officials in Montgomery County, Maryland are hoping this current school year turns out better than the last one, when comments from two students at a low-scoring middle school led to the unearthing of the district's second major cheating scandal -
‘Public’ Meetings Not for the Public
Opinion -Most local government bodies have some provision for members of the public to bring new items of concern--non-agenda items--to the attention of their elected officials at regularly scheduled meetings. -
Teacher Unions Resist Introduction of Competition
Opinion -"It is better for the public to procure at the market whatever the market can supply; because there it is by competition kept up in quality, and reduced to its minimum price. -
How Schools ‘Manage’ Parents
Opinion -Why is it that parents who give a mediocre grade to public schools in general almost invariably have a favorable impression of the performance of their local public school? -
State Legislative Roundup
Opinion -CALIFORNIA Break-Up Movement Threatens L.A. Unified A "break-up" movement in Los Angeles has the potential to completely dismantle the status quo in large urban school districts nationwide. -
California District Renews Fast ForWord Contract
Opinion -After reading teacher observations and reviewing student scores on state and district reading and math tests, school officials in Fontana, California, decided to renew the Unified School District's site license for the Fast ForWord® family of language -
Don’t Mess with Texans: Susan Sarhady
Opinion -In the struggle to advance parental choice in education, the battles that take place in affluent suburban communities are fundamentally different from those in low-income inner-city neighborhoods. -
Group Supports Black Homeschooling
Opinion -Although black non-Hispanic students make up 16.0 percent of the 1999 student population, they make up only 9.9 percent of students in homeschooling families. -
Answers to the Math Quiz
Opinion -1 - C [12th-grade test question] 2 - B [8th-grade test question] 3 - B [4th-grade test question] 4 - E [8th-grade] 5 - Any numbers greater than 18. -
Charter School Facilities and Finance
Opinion -Charter school founders have many business decisions to make in the process of developing a school, most of which they will make themselves. -
Charter School Update
Opinion -Although charter school developers in Illinois may appeal a local denial to the State Board of Education, the state board has seen fit to overturn local denials only in two early cases. -
Education Industry News
Opinion -Ameris to Merge with Children's Comprehensive Services On August 9, a merger was announced between Ameris Acquisition, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Kids Holdings, Inc., and Children's Comprehensive Services, Inc. -
Just the Facts: Calif. Virtual Schools Offer Bennett’s K12 Program
Opinion -California's leading manager of virtual charter schools, Innovative Education Management, Inc., is now offering its kindergarten through second grade students the world-class curriculum of K12, the Internet-based learning program created by former U.S. -
Schundler’s Tax Credits
Opinion -New Jersey Gubernatorial candidate Bret Schundler's proposals for school finance reform have received much attention, not all of it favorable. -
Survey: 850,000 Students Homeschooled
Opinion -Parents in the U.S. are educating 850,000 children at home--1.7 percent of school-age children--according to a new study of homeschooling released in early August by the National Center for Education Statistics. -
Teacher Experience and Student Achievement
Opinion -Do students reach higher levels of achievement when taught by better qualified and more experienced teachers? Just barely, according to the latest fourth-grade math scores from the 2000 National Assessment of Educational Progress. -
Try this Math Quiz
Opinion -The following are sample test questions from the National Assessment of Educational Progress for fourth-, eighth-, and twelfth-grade mathematics, with 11 questions for each grade placed in random order. -
Update: Punishment Adjusted
Opinion -In early September, seven of the 11 teachers implicated in the cheating scandal reached settlements with the Montgomery County School System "adjusting the punishments," according to local press sources. -
Vouchers Proposed to Resolve Crisis in Vermont
Opinion -With Vermont's four-year-old educational funding mechanism fast approaching crisis stage, the Ethan Allen Institute has proposed a statewide voucher system that would restore the authority of parents over their child's school, meet the obligations of the -
WA Teacher Union Found Guilty
Opinion -The Washington Education Association intentionally broke the law in spending non-member dues for political purposes, but the state watchdog agency in charge of enforcing the law didn't act until "spurred to do so by citizen complaints" from the -
Will Bush Education Bill Help Class of 2014?
Opinion -Although many education reformers lost interest in President George W. -
How Promising Is Accountability?
Opinion -As Congressional conference committee negotiations continue for President George W. -
Who Tells Teachers They Can Teach?
Opinion -QUESTION: For which grade level would the following test questions be appropriate? 1. Which of the following is equal to a quarter of a million? (a) 40,000 (b) 250,000 (c) 2,500,000 (d) 1 / 4,000,000 (e) 4 / 1,000,000 2.
