Publications
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Policy Tip Sheet No. 5 – Iowa Preschool Funding Subsidy
Publication -Policy Tip Sheets -Iowans are currently funding a universal statewide preschool program at more than $3,500 per child. The program cost the state more than $70 million last year, and the costs have been growing since its inception.Gov. -
School Choice Is Back
Publication -Research and Commentaries -School vouchers, like the Republican Party, are back in a big way. The question for vouchers, as for the GOP, is: Have they learned their lesson?Just a few years ago, the smart people were declaring vouchers dead. -
Research & Commentary: School Vouchers Are a Cost-Saver for Taxpayers
Publication -Research and Commentaries -The evidence is in: If your goal is efficiency and saving tax dollars, K-12 education voucher programs are an astounding success. -
Parents should have choice in education
Publication -Research and Commentaries -A vast majority of Tennesseans believe their public school system needs changing, as found by a recent Vanderbilt University poll. -
Research & Commentary: Indiana Parent Trigger
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Schools in Indiana are failing to make the grade, and parents are afforded virtually no recourse when their children fall victim to a failing school. -
Policy Tip Sheet No. 1 – North Carolina Parent Trigger
Publication -Policy Tip Sheets -ProblemAccording to The Heartland Institute’s 2010 State School Report Card, North Carolina public education ranks 47th in the nation in terms of Learning Achievement and receives an “F. -
The Blob That Ate the Schools
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Here’s an eye-opening school statistic for you: Only half of Oklahoma’s public education employees are teachers. The bureaucracy is now so big, it takes up half the system. It’s the blob that ate the schools. -
Collective Bargaining in California Charter Schools: Cooperation or Conflict?
Publication -Policy Studies -As unions begin to target charter schools, James Moss in his doctoral dissertation for the University of Southern California describes the effects a unionizing workforce has on charter teachers, administrators, and students' educations. -
How Higher Tuition Translates into More Debt for State Universities
Publication -Research and Commentaries -The S.C. Budget and Control Board recently announced a moratorium halting construction at four-year public institutions that raised tuition by 7 percent or more for the 2010-2011 school year. -
No. 129 2010 State School Report Card
Publication -Policy Studies -A Nation at Risk pointed out more than 25 years ago that the poor quality of public schools in the United States is a threat to the continuing prosperity of the country. -
Higher Education in South Carolina: Cut Administrative Costs and Focus on Student Performance
Publication -Research and Commentaries -While South Carolinians can take pride in our state’s higher educational system, costs and tuition have skyrocketed in recent years, even as graduation rates remain below 40 percent. -
Research & Commentary: Constitutionality of School Voucher Programs
Publication -Research and Commentaries -In this year’s session the Illinois state legislature failed to pass a voucher bill benefiting low-income students in failing Chicago schools. Legislators expressed concern about the measure’s constitutionality. -
School Vouchers, Prosperity, and Job Creation
Publication -Research and Commentaries -States and localities are struggling with the need to slow the growth of spending for public K-12 education, while government employee unions and some legislators continue calling for ever-more money. -
Research and Commentary: K-12 Teacher Tenure and Merit Pay
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Last week, Florida’s legislature passed landmark legislation to tie teacher compensation to educational outcomes and phase out tenure for K-12 teachers. On April 15, Gov. -
Advancing Student Achievement
Publication -Books -For the last half century, higher spending and many modern reforms have failed to raise the achievement of students in the United States to the levels of other economically advanced countries. -
Advancing Student Achievement
Publication -Books -For the last half century, higher spending and many modern reforms have failed to raise the achievement of students in the United States to the levels of other economically advanced countries. -
Education Model Policy Manual
Publication -Research and Commentaries -School board policies that are found in a policy manual provide the parameters for the administration to manage the district based on the beliefs and philosophy of each board of education. -
Vouchers And South Carolina School Children
Publication -Research and Commentaries -In a marketplace, cash follows the consumer. Institutions that provide value to consumers flourish, and those that do not wither. But that’s not true in education, because of the government monopoly on the tax revenues that fund schooling. -
Student Loan Update
Publication -Research and Commentaries -One of the great tragedies affecting higher education today is the overpricing of an education that carries less and less value. -
Can Vouchers Reform Public Schools?
Publication -Policy Studies -This Heartland Policy Study by education expert George Clowes addresses concerns about the efficacy of school vouchers that have been raised recently by some school reform advocates. -
No. 116 Choice & Education Across the States
Publication -Policy Studies -Choice & Education Across the States ranks state efforts to increase accountability and improve student achievement with four kinds of school choice: vouchers, charters, tax credits, and public school choice. -
Education Vouchers
Publication -Research and Commentaries -In the real world, cash follows the consumer, causing institutions of worth to flourish, and those not of worth to wither. That's not true in education. -
Research & Commentary: School Vouchers as a Solution to Georgia’s Dire Education Problems
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Student achievement in Georgia is simply awful, and the state’s high school dropout rate puts it near dead-last in the country on this measure as well. -
No Child Left Behind – The Debate Over Reauthorization
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Across the country, school is back in session. Will No Child Left Behind (NCLB) be re-enrolled? NCLB was initiated in 2001 with bipartisan support and was signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2002.