Opinion
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Soaring Spending Fails to Lift Achievement
Opinion -After unprecedented increases in federal spending on K-12 education during the Clinton administration, does U.S. public education need still more money? Teacher union leaders insist it does. "Conservative" President George W. -
State Education Roundup
Opinion -FLORIDA Challenge to Scholarship Program Rejected On April 24, the Florida Supreme Court declined to review the decision of the First District Court of Appeals in the legal challenge to the Florida Opportunity Scholarship Program, which allows -
Tax Credits Would Boost Private Schooling in New Jersey
Opinion -Total private school enrollment in New Jersey would increase by 40 percent, and the state treasury would realize net annual savings of almost a half billion dollars, if the Garden State legislature enacted two proposed tuition tax credit plans, according -
Types of K-12 Education Tax Credits
Opinion -First, there's little difference between a tax credit and a tax deduction, except that a credit is worth much more than a deduction. -
Voucher ‘Lies and Distortions’ Stymie Choice for Poor
Opinion -A campaign of misinformation about school vouchers is keeping the benefits of parental choice out of the hands of low-income families, while middle-income and upper-income families continue to take such benefits for granted simply by changing their -
Advantage Charter Schools Narrow Learning Gap
Opinion -In a significant demonstration of how choice-based school reform can result in the creation of an effective, replicable learning environment, Advantage Schools on March 28 reported that students in its 14 charter schools across the country had achieved a -
What Is Direct Instruction?
Opinion -Advantage Schools uses the Direct Instruction (DI) curriculum to teach all children reading, writing, and math. -
How Bush Plan Would Change NAEP
Opinion -By administering the National Assessment of Educational Progress to a sample of fourth- and eighth-graders every year, President George W. Bush's testing plan would effect major changes in the "nation's report card. -
Massachusetts Next for Bilingual Reform?
Opinion -The introduction of separate bilingual education reform proposals by two prominent Massachusetts lawmakers has sparked speculation that the Commonwealth may become the newest addition to a growing list of states that have undertaken major reform of -
NYC School Board Approves Bilingual Reforms
Opinion -The New York City Board of Education on February 28 voted to make important reforms to the city's bilingual education programs. -
Does SAT Discriminate Against Minorities?
Opinion -Although University of California President Richard Atkinson disparages the SAT I and wants to drop it as a requirement for UC admissions, other college officials endorse the test, which focuses on higher-order reading and math skills. -
The Continuing Struggle: Howard L. Fuller
Opinion -"If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. -
National Test Is Key to Bush Education Reform Proposal
Opinion -Ronald Reagan's famous watchwords for arms control were, "Trust but verify." George W. Bush's equivalent for reform of federal education spending could be, "Trust but test. -
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Charter Schools Week: April 30 – May 4, 2001
Opinion -The achievements of charter schools across the United States will be recognized and celebrated during National Charter Schools Week, April 30-May 4. -
Education and the American Dream: Peter Hoekstra
Opinion -Brought to Holland, Michigan, by his Dutch parents as a wide-eyed three-year-old in 1957, and now a respected leader of education reform in the United States Congress, Representative Peter Hoekstra has lived the American Dream. -
Charter Schools That Work
Opinion -What are charter schools? How are they created? Who runs them? How successful have they been? These questions are addressed in an hour-long program called "Charter Schools That Work," broadcast on PBS last fall. -
Education Industry News
Opinion -A sampling of education industry news from The Education Economy, a weekly publication of the market research firm Eduventures.com, which conducts research on the pre-K-12, post-secondary, corporate training, and consumer markets worldwide. -
Education Reform Produces Options for Dayton Parents
Opinion -As in many urban communities across the nation, Dayton, Ohio residents have watched their local public schools deteriorate as three decades of forced busing and subsequent middle-class flight took their toll. -
Keep Fed Role in Education Simple, Panel Told
Opinion -At a field hearing in Chicago on March 2, members of the House Education and the Workforce Committee learned that education reforms in the Windy City have involved not only systemic changes to the city's public schools, but also the creation of a greater -
SAT Spat Overlooks Real Admissions Barrier
Opinion -In proposing to drop the SAT I from the University of California's admissions process, UC President Richard Atkinson implied it is the SAT that blocks most black and Hispanic students from entering the UC system. -
Homeschooler or Truant?
Opinion -As part of a nationwide effort to combat truancy, a local government official in Somerset, England, has come up with an easy way for police officers to distinguish between homeschoolers and truants: Let the homeschoolers register with the local -
Bush Bilingual Plan Offers Major Changes
Opinion -Since 1998, when California voters approved Proposition 227 and virtually ended the state's bilingual education programs, state- and district-wide reform of bilingual education has spread rapidly throughout the United States. -
Anti-Intellectualism Runs Rampant in U.S. Education: Diane Ravitch
Opinion -"History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.
