Opinion
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Can Vouchers Save Edgewood’s Children?
Opinion -In a series of front-page articles just before Thanksgiving last year, Houston Chronicle reporter Thaddeus Herrick wrote about the Edgewood School District in San Antonio, Texas, where CEO America has initiated a ten-year project to determine the -
Poverty Can’t Hold Down Latino Math Scores
Opinion -Math achievement of students from low-income families improves only when family improves, right? -
Judge Supports Teachers’ Right to Sue Local Union
Opinion -A federal judge has added nearly 500 teachers to a federal class-action suit originally filed over five years ago by a group of teachers who argued that union officials illegally demanded payment of dues or agency fees from them. -
Union Contracts Ask Little of Maryland Teachers
Opinion -A new study of the 24 teacher union contracts currently in effect in Maryland reveals that county school boards are extraordinarily lenient with the unions and actually demand very little of public school teachers. -
Education Policy for the New Millennium
Opinion -The members of the newly installed 106th Congress have been handed an historic opportunity to change the course of K-12 education, by changing the focus of federal education programs administered under the $13 billion-a-year Elementary and Secondary -
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Reporting the Unthinkable: Sex Between Teachers and Students
Opinion -". . . John Shockro, a popular teacher and coach in Mattapoisett, assaulted numerous girls over 23 years. He pleaded guilty last year to seven counts of child rape and six other sexual-assault charges involving two students from 1994 through 1996. . . . -
Other Countries Overtake U.S. in Education
Opinion -If it is true, as public educators insist, that today's high school graduates face competition in a world-wide marketplace, then 1998 was the year when--from start to finish--U.S. -
Urban School Systems Can Succeed: ‘Wall-to-Wall, for All Children’
Opinion -The remarkable success of El Paso, Texas, Superintendent Anthony Trujillo's schools and students over a six-year period brings a refreshing message of hope and promise--that urban school systems can be transformed into cost-efficient, high-performing -
02/1999 State Education Roundup
Opinion -Georgia * Idaho * Illinois * Maryland New York * Ohio * Pennsylvania GEORGIA Mom, Put My Teacher in Jail In Savannah, Georgia, teachers are facing their worst nightmare: kids with “attitude” can have them arrested. -
Parents in Control
Opinion -Florida Legislators Support School Choice A bipartisan group of legislators--including the chairwoman of the legislative black caucus--has promised to deliver school choice to Florida's parents next year and to work with Floridians for School Choice -
Remedial Ed–Little Bang for the Buck
Opinion -Despite congressionally funded assessments documenting that the two programs have been failures from the beginning, some 1. -
TIMSS: Why U.S. Students Performed Poorly
Opinion -Results from the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) show that the longer U.S. -
Parents Tell Schools: Teach American Values First
Opinion -Although there is much debate among teachers and academics about whether the mostly white, mostly male, and mostly European heroes involved in stories of the nation's founding can have meaning for students whose backgrounds and origins are different, -
Private Schools Could Ease Enrollment Crunch
Opinion -The problem of overcrowded public schools facing 22 urban communities across the country could be alleviated for a public investment of about $4,575 per pupil by making use of up to 150,000 available seats at private schools in those communities, -
School-Induced Illiteracy Spurs Spending Explosion
Opinion -The army of teachers, aides, and support personnel involved in K-12 remedial education has grown so dramatically over the past decade that it now approaches the size of the United States Armed Forces and will cost over $65 billion in 1998, according to -
Hmong Families Spur Student Success
Opinion -Hmong students concentrated in six Wisconsin cities perform well in school despite demographic conditions that are frequently blamed for poor academic performance in public schools: family poverty, unemployment, gang activities, early marriage and teen -
Texas Teachers Bring in NEA to Fight Vouchers
Opinion -Responding to a distress signal from its affiliate in the Lone Star State, the National Education Association is helping officials from the Edgewood School District organize a fight against school vouchers. -
Giving Choice a Chance in Cleveland
Opinion -Given the virulent opposition of the teacher unions to any and all forms of school choice, how is it that a pilot school voucher program was enacted in Cleveland, Ohio? -
Teaching About America
Opinion -With many parents not knowing much about America, it is essential for schools to teach their children what it means to be an American. -
Prep School for Native-Americans
Opinion -With 74 students from 32 American Indian tribes in 11 states, the Native American Preparatory School in Rowe, New Mexico, is "almost like a Native American United Nations," according to principal Sven Husaby. -
Grading North Carolina Schools
Opinion -Most North Carolina public schools score a "D" or an "F" when ranked on a traditional 10-point grading scale, according to a study released last year by the John Locke Foundation. -
02/1999 Parental Freedom in the States and Nation
Opinion -Distinguished political science scholar Quentin L. Quade, director of Marquette’s Blum Center for Parental Freedom Education, died on January 19 at the age of 65. -
Becoming an American
Opinion -Learn about America Parents of all demographic groups embrace the teaching of traditional American ideals: Schools should teach kids to be proud of being part of America. Schools should teach the responsibilities of citizenship.