Opinion
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Book Dismissing Value of College Marred by Excess Data
Opinion -school-reform-news -Review of The Case against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money, by Bryan Caplan (Princeton University Press, 2018), 416 pp.; $20.04 on Amazon.com: ISBN-10: 0691174652, ISBN-13: 978-0691174655 -
Kentucky Lawmakers Reintroduce Tax-Credit Scholarship Legislation
Opinion -school-reform-news -Kentucky lawmakers have reintroduced legislation to bring tax-credit scholarships to the state, after the same bills failed last year. -
Federal Disciplinary Policies Lower Wisconsin Students’ Achievement, Study Finds
Opinion -school-reform-news -Disciplinary policies imposed by the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) have reduced student achievement in Wisconsin, researchers have found. -
Increased Access to Private Schools Raises Overall Test Scores, Study Finds
Opinion -school-reform-news -More access to private schooling improves student outcomes across the globe, a new study has found. -
School Choice Doesn’t Destroy Public Schools, It Makes Them Better
Opinion -Editorial -The go-to mantra of many traditional government school advocates is that education-choice programs destroy neighborhood public schools. -
Acclaimed College History Professor Leaves after Ideological Attacks
Opinion -school-reform-news -An acclaimed history professor is leaving his decades-long post at a prestigious private college after enduring years of discrimination for his conservative views. -
Action Civics Advances Collective Groupthink, Not Civic Knowledge
Opinion -Editorial -In our grab-and-go culture, who does not love action? -
North Carolina Legislature Makes Higher Ed Reform a Priority
Opinion -school-reform-news -The North Carolina legislature is making changes to the state’s higher education system. -
New Tax Law Expands College Savings Plans to K-12
Opinion -school-reform-news -The recently enacted Republican tax reform includes a provision allowing parents to use federal-tax-free educational savings accounts for K-12 expenses. -
Schools Failing to Educate Kids Now Want to Treat Their Mental Health
Opinion -Editorial -There’s never a moment in the world of public education that it’s safe to let your guard down. -
Florida Considers Allowing Districts to Write Own Standards, Though Testing Would Remain
Opinion -school-reform-news -The Florida Legislature is considering bills to enable school districts to write their own academic standards. -
School Choice Can Help Defeat Poverty—But Only If Government Gets Out of the Way
Opinion -Editorial -In January, 6.7 million people are gathering to celebrate and demand more school choice at some 30,000 events and rallies nationwide, yet government schools continue to usurp the role of parents at an alarming pace. -
Teachers Are the Reason So Many Teens Are Stressed ‘All the Time’
Opinion -school-choice-weekly, Editorial -School Choice Weekly #210 -
‘Baby PISA’ Is in the Nursery—But Hold Off on Sending the Cigars and Flowers
Opinion -Editorial -Baby PISA has arrived. Are you ready, folks in the neighborhood? Do you have any earthly idea what this newborn may presage for child rearing and society in general? -
Why the ‘War’ on College Is Justified
Opinion -Editorial -American skepticism toward college isn’t “unsettling” or “dangerous”; it’s completely justified and should serve as a wake-up call to colleges to change course. -
Measuring Up to the Model
Opinion -A Ranking of State Public Charter School Laws, Ninth Edition -
Indiana Lawmaker Reintroduces Bill to Mandate Teaching Cursive Writing
Opinion -school-reform-news -An Indiana lawmaker has, for the seventh consecutive year, introduced a bill mandating the instruction of cursive writing in public elementary schools. -
Why School Choice Will Continue to Grow in Popularity
Opinion -Editorial -National School Choice Week (NSCW), an annual event that celebrates education choice, has been smashing attendance records year after year. -
North Carolina Bill Would Allow ‘Certain Towns’ to Operate Charter Schools
Opinion -school-reform-news -A bill pending in North Carolina would enable towns to create their own charter schools rather than rely on the state to authorize them. -
No One Wants to Major in Education
Opinion -school-choice-weekly, Editorial -School Choice Weekly #209 -
Would Artificial Intelligence Guide Education or Grab It?
Opinion -Editorial -America’s educationists seem to be getting carried away, one fears. -
Teachers’ Selling of Lesson Plans Sparks Debate
Opinion -school-reform-news -Selling lesson plans online is a growing trend among teachers looking to earn extra money, though the practice has some people concerned about curriculum quality and teacher collaboration. -
Massachusetts Becomes Dumber So the Rest of Us Can Be Smarter
Opinion -Editorial -It is not likely that even an exhaustive review of commentary on education in 2017 could turn up quotes compelling enough to qualify as classic nuggets of wisdom. -
Teachers Unions Say Each Teacher Costs Schools $100,000 But Unions Still Want MORE Money
Opinion -Editorial -Our country’s teachers unions are doing what they do best: throwing a childish tantrum and demanding they get more of your hard-earned tax dollars to spoil their underperforming members.
