Opinion
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New Mexico’s ‘New Beginning’ Includes Vouchers
Opinion -"I'm sure you're all familiar with the old saying that the definition of insanity is continuing to do things the way you've always done them but expecting a different result. That's what I think has been going on in education for decades. -
SRN Just the Facts: Charter School Legislation: State Rankings
Opinion -States With No Charter Laws Alabama Iowa Indiana Kentucky Maryland Maine Montana North Dakota Nebraska South Dakota Tennessee Vermont Washington West Virginia The Center for Education Reform has developed a -
School Choice Scorecard as 2001 Begins
Opinion -The January 2001 issue of The Friedman Report provided the following status report on school choice in the states at the start of 2001, based on data from the National Conference of State Legislatures: Intra-District Choice (10) Alabama, -
Bush Reforms Stress Results
Opinion -Just three days into his administration, President George W. Bush kept his campaign promise to stress academic results above all in elementary and secondary education. -
America’s Teaching Crisis: Sandra Stotsky
Opinion -Last November, the Massachusetts Board of Education unanimously approved new regulations for licensing teachers to practice their profession in the state's K-12 public schools. -
IRS Raises Questions as Charter Schools Mature
Opinion -After almost a decade of growth, the charter school movement has produced more than 2,000 new public schools across the country that serve more than a half-million students. -
Bush Plan ‘a Good Start,’ But Not Enough, Says Nobel
Opinion -Nobel Learning Communities, Inc., the nation's largest operator of private schools, welcomed President George W. Bush's education reform package as a strong beginning to a reform of the U.S. public school system . . . -
State Education Roundup
Opinion -Arizona New Rorschach Test? Philip Morris Cos. have sent 13 million free illustrated book jackets to schools nationwide. -
Improving Science Education
Opinion -After the results of the Third International Math and Science Study were released in 1998, raising concerns about the declining performance of U.S. -
How Dropout Rates Hit the Radar Screen in California
Opinion -In June 1998, the California Department of Education issued a press release claiming California's dropout rate had fallen to 3.3 percent, a figure printed in more than 35 California daily newspapers. -
Where Does the Money Go? (Hint: Not to teachers)
Opinion -In the fall of 1997, there were 46,127,194 students in K-12 public schools in the U.S., with 5,258,671 teachers and instructional staff employed to serve them: one staff member for every 8.8 students. -
School Choice Debated at New York City Conference
Opinion -Opponents and proponents of school choice debated their differing positions at the December 13 school choice conference in New York City, cosponsored by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. -
One in Four U.S. Students Drops Out
Opinion -Although a recent Census Bureau publication has been widely reported as showing more Americans than ever graduating from high school, with gradually improving dropout rates nationwide, data from the U.S. Department of Education make it clear that the U.S. -
Teacher Union Will Hire Edison Schools
Opinion -In October last year, the American Federation of Teachers issued a report that had little praise for the performance of public schools managed by Edison Schools Inc. -
Learning Is Like Eating Strawberries
Opinion -When her daughter Susan started kindergarten in Virginia in 1972, Jessie Wise quickly heard complaints from Susan's teacher that the child would become a social misfit because she wanted to read during free time instead of playing. -
Judicial Taxation Violates Separation of Powers
Opinion -The legislature makes the laws. The executive enforces the laws. The judiciary rules on the laws. -
The Incredible Disappearing School Choice ‘Scandal’
Opinion -Editor's Note: Marquette University professor Howard Fuller frequently has noted that voucher opponents have a three-phase strategy for defeating school choice in any state. -
Takeover Plan for St. Louis Schools?
Opinion -Although they say they want to avoid it, the Missouri School Board is developing contingency plans for taking control of the school districts in Kansas City and St. Louis, according to a September 22 report in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. -
Best and Brightest Pull Higher Grades for Lower SATs
Opinion -Though not emphasized by the College Board as much as the "30-year high" in math scores, other data in the latest SAT test score release raise concerns about the state of American education. -
Could School Choice Save St. Louis?
Opinion -In a series of attempts to stem a dramatic population loss and revitalize a shrinking tax base, St. -
California: Setting the Standard for Science Teaching: interview with Michael A. Rios
Opinion -"Science is an organized body of knowledge and a method of proceeding to an extension of this knowledge by hypothesis and experiment.” Nobel laureate Glenn T. -
Parents Want Standards and Student Testing
Opinion -Despite well-publicized protests by teachers and students against the imposition of academic standards and standardized tests, a new survey finds the vast majority of parents--the paying customers for educational services--support the way higher -
What Doesn’t Work
Opinion -The U.S. Department of Education was identified nearly a decade ago, in 1993, as a troubled agency in need of significant reform. -
Recentered SAT Yields Apples and Oranges
Opinion -When the College Board artificially "recentered" SAT scores to 500 apiece for the verbal and math sections in 1995, it created a world of doubt about the reliability of its long-term data.
