Opinion
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As Teachers, We Believe …
Opinion -All of the educators on the Teachers' Advisory Board of the Children's Scholarship Fund signed on to the following Statement of Principles: Children are the reason for a system of education, and that system's needs must never take precedence over -
Creating Partnerships
Opinion -"We have lost our focus on our core business of educating children," and one way to get that focus back is to outsource things we don't do well, maintains James Williams, former superintendent of the public school system in Dayton, Ohio. -
Vouchers Improve Academic Outcomes
Opinion -Since supporters of parental choice in education hold the moral high ground in the education reform debate, opponents have consistently attempted to shift the debate to secondary issues, such as cost and whether choice produces better outcomes. -
Shooting the Messenger
Opinion -When Judge Kenneth Starr agreed to become Special Prosecutor, he little suspected that his own professional integrity would be targeted for destruction in order to discredit the findings of his investigation of Bill and Hillary Clinton in the -
Magnet Schools Take Best Students
Opinion -While public school advocates demand that voucher schools take all students who apply so they cannot "skim the cream," the same advocates of equal opportunity do not make the same demands on public magnet schools, which have highly selective enrollment -
Keyes Would Abolish Dept. of Education
Opinion -In a January 11 speech to the Professional Educators of Iowa, a group of teachers and school administrators who oppose mandatory teacher membership in unions, Republican Presidential candidate Alan Keyes called for the abolition of the 21-year-old U.S. -
Who Picked Gore?
Opinion -A recent nationwide survey of teachers by the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution revealed Texas Governor George W. Bush as their first choice for the next President of the United States, with almost as many undecided. -
TesseracT Assures Parents: Schools Will Stay Open
Opinion -With its stock delisted from Nasdaq, two of its top officers resigned, one-quarter of its central office staff laid off, and three of its schools outside of Arizona closed, the TesseracT Group, Inc. -
Administrators Wrong on Choice
Opinion -Parents who took advantage of Wisconsin's public school choice program were not driven by convenience, but were seeking a better education for their children, according to a new study from Milwaukee's Public Policy Forum, a private, nonprofit public -
Inkster Gets the Message
Opinion -As Detroit Free Press reporters Peggy Walsh-Sarnecki and Sheryl James noted recently, no one took it seriously a few years ago when the Mackinac Center for Public Policy proposed the idea of privatizing public school districts. -
Troubled Districts Face Takeover . . . By Private Firms
Opinion -While it's relatively easy for state policy makers to identify a failing school district and then take it over, legislators around the country are beginning to realize it's another matter entirely to turn the performance of that district around. -
04/2000 School Choice Roundup
Opinion -California * Colorado * Connecticut * Florida * Georgia * Indiana * Kansas * Kentucky Maryland * Michigan * Missouri * New Hampshire * New Jersey * New Mexico New York * Pennsylvania * South Carolina * South Dakota * Utah Vermont * Virginia * -
Competition Necessary for Sustainable School Reform
Opinion -The estimated $360 billion U.S. K-12 education market makes up almost 10 percent of GDP, the second largest sector after health care. -
McCain Takes On Teacher Unions
Opinion -In a major education speech in Spartanburg, South Carolina on February 10, Republican presidential candidate John McCain renewed his call for a massive national voucher experiment, and then delivered a stinging attack against the teacher unions and -
Parents Can’t Get Enough of Vouchers
Opinion -Sophisticated statistical techniques aren't needed to prove that parents of Cleveland voucher students are overwhelmingly satisfied with their children's new schools. -
Scholarship Fund Gives Teachers a Voice
Opinion -When the Children's Scholarship Fund offered half-cost tuition vouchers for children in low-income families to go to private schools, it provided megaphone amplification to the voices of over one million parents and children around the country who were -
Who Chooses?
Opinion -One of the favorite arguments raised by voucher opponents in an attempt to show the supposed unfairness of school choice is the question, "Who chooses? -
Cheating Is Lying
Opinion -Cheating by students is on the rise, with students taking their cues from adult attitudes, says Michael Josephson, who heads California's Josephson Institute for Ethics. -
‘Accountable’ Public Schools Squander Funds
Opinion -When an Ohio state audit recently revealed that a voucher school in Cleveland had bilked the state out of more than $85,000, state legislators proposed passing a law to prevent any reoccurrence of such incidents. -
Federal Agency Not Following Federal Law
Opinion -Frustrated at the Bureau of Indian Affairs' lack of progress in carrying out its responsibility to bring its schools into compliance with the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, lawyers with the Native American Protection and Advocacy -
What About the Children? an interview with John E. Berthoud
Opinion -If the "New Unionism" did mean something--if it wasn't just a lot of rhetoric coming from a big public relations firm--then you might expect to see an organization that now was a little more interested in qualitative reforms rather than just the same -
Can Americans Trust Their National Report Card?
Opinion -Testing data tumble out of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), the so-called “Nation's Report Card,” with great regularity. But can the numbers always be trusted? -
Reading is Key Science Skill
Opinion -How do scientists acquire most of their knowledge? Surprisingly, it's not by "observing," "measuring," or doing "hands-on" investigations. It's by reading. -
Reading Is Not Enough
Opinion -A new Canadian study has found that children do not learn to read simply by having their parents read to them. Parents must accompany reading with teaching the alphabet in order for children to grasp the mechanics involved in reading.
