Opinion
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Parent ‘Vote’ Is Key to Better Schools
Opinion -Today, we think it strange that women once didn't have the vote. In the future, says entrepreneur John Walton, co-founder of the Children’s Scholarship Fund, it will seem equally strange that many Americans today don't have an educational vote. -
Call to Halt School-to-Work Spending
Opinion -WASHINGTON--Since the 104th Congress passed the School-to-Work Opportunities Act in 1994, the federal government has dispensed a total of $2 billion in implementation grants to the 50 states. -
Views on Vouchers
Opinion -It’s not a matter of public vs. private schools, it’s a matter of better schools. -
Lessons from Wisconsin
Opinion -The intellectual debate over vouchers in Milwaukee may be over, but the battle to regulate educational choice still is being fought, according to American Education Reform Council president Susan Mitchell in a recent report from the Wisconsin Policy -
Two School Chiefs Talk about Vouchers
Opinion -While dismissing vouchers as "a diversion" and "a proxy for real investment," New York Schools Chancellor Rudy Crew admitted to a Milwaukee audience that "you're causing me pure hell in New York. -
School Choice for the Next Millennium
Opinion -Treat everyone the same, with a fair share for each person: The idea is so basic that children learn it in kindergarten, long before they’re able to express it as a fundamental concept of the rule of law. -
01/2000 School Choice Roundup
Opinion -Arkansas * Alabama * Connecticut * Illinois * Indiana * Kansas Massachusetts * Michigan * New Hampshire * Pennsylvania * Texas ARKANSAS A Town Divided--by Teacher Salaries When the Texas Legislature approved a $3,000-per-year pay increase -
The New Philanthropists
Opinion -The idea came from a successful Wall Street entrepreneur and a director of one of America's most successful retailers, but it didn't sound like a winning proposition. -
Meager Results from STW in Wisconsin
Opinion -"While many Wisconsin schoolchildren did participate in classroom-based job and career awareness programs, there is little evidence that School to Work has had any impact at all on Wisconsin's future work force.” James H. -
Profile of a Pedophile
Opinion -"If sexually abusive educators had tails and horns, matters would be simplified greatly. The fact is, however, they often are well-liked by students and colleagues. -
School Choice Debate Is Over, Says Norquist
Opinion -If it's true what choice opponents say about vouchers--that they're a hoax--then a lot of Milwaukee residents are being taken for a ride, according to a new poll conducted this fall by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. -
The Dark Side of Suburban School Achievement
Opinion -In early November, parents in many New York communities were shocked to discover that buying an expensive home in an exclusive suburb hadn’t guaranteed a good education for their children in the local public schools. -
Helping Teachers Raise Student Achievement: an interview with William L. Sanders
Opinion -When a sports player wants to work on improving his or her game, it's not very productive to spend time simply looking at the scores of recent games. -
We’re Talking about the Future Here: an interview with Harold W. Stevenson
Opinion -If "mathematics is the gate and key to the sciences," as English scientist Roger Bacon put it in 1267, then many of today's public school students are being given an ill-fitting key to unlock the gate of the sciences. -
School Violence Prevention: Choice and Accountability Are Key: an interview with Alexander Volokh
Opinion -“Parents care about grades, they care about violence, they care about safety. School choice will tend to make any of those things go in the right direction. -
Brilliant Teachers + Good Administration + Concern Parents = The Best School You Can Get
Opinion -The State of North Carolina almost shut down Durham's predominantly African-American Healthy Start Academy last year because its demographics violated the state's requirements for racial balance. -
Vouchers Ruled Constitutional in Ohio
Opinion -In another victory for school choice, the Ohio Supreme Court has ruled without dissent that the state's use of publicly funded vouchers to educate low-income children at private or religious schools does not violate provisions for the separation of -
Reading Is Anything But Natural
Opinion -Must children be taught phonics as part of learning how to read? Or do they learn to read in a natural process, simply by being exposed to the "whole language" of written literature? -
School Choice Is a Matter of Justice: an interview with Patrick J. Heffernan
Opinion -Although philosophers teach us that ideas have consequences, few of them have the range of practical experience required to illustrate the truth of that statement with an example from their own lives. -
What Works in Raising Student Achievement
Opinion -After hearing evidence of how parental choice programs can raise student achievement, some of those attending the November 1998 Wingspread conference in Racine, Wisconsin recommended that such efforts be expanded and evaluated. -
School Lessons
Opinion -Lessons on Vouchers from Milwaukee Although the title of Tamar Lewin's March 27 New York Times article was "Few Clear Lessons from Nation's First School-Choice Program," her account of the Milwaukee voucher program suggests that two fundamental -
ESEA: Congress Must Answer the Hard Questions
Opinion -A leading education expert says Congress must answer some tough questions about the purpose of federal aid to education when it reauthorizes the $13 billion Elementary and Secondary Education Act later this year. -
History Lesson: Market-Based Schooling Is Best
Opinion -While defenders of public schools argue that opening K-12 education to competition and the profit motive would destroy public education, author Andrew J. -
And the Winners Are
Opinion -While reform candidates rarely have the upper hand in elections with low voter turnout, that was not the case in Milwaukee’s recent school board election.
