Publications
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Research & Commentary: Special-Needs Vouchers
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Seven states currently offer special-needs students the opportunity to take their public funds to a private school, and at least 10 more states are currently considering similar legislation. -
Research & Commentary: Obama Administration Education Policies
Publication -Research and Commentaries -As the 2012 elections approach, it is an appropriate time to review the president’s record on education policy. Several prominent observers have done so recently. The president’s education policies seem to please no one extremely well. -
Research & Commentary: Loosening Teacher Tenure
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Several states, including Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Nevada, New Jersey, South Dakota, and Virginia, are considering making teacher tenure more difficult to obtain or replacing it with rolling contracts. -
Research & Commentary: Florida Parent Trigger
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Florida legislators have proposed an education reform that is garnering significant national attention: the Parent Trigger. The legislation, first passed in California, is currently being drafted in a dozen other states. -
Research & Commentary: Digital Textbooks
Publication -Research and Commentaries -The Obama administration has announced it wants every child in the nation to have an e-textbook by 2017. Several states, including California and Utah, already have made their way towards that goal. -
Research & Commentary: Louisiana Education Reforms
Publication -Research and Commentaries -In January 2012, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) proposed policies that would shift the state’s education system toward greater accountability, freedom, and choice. -
Research & Commentary: School Funding that Follows the Child
Publication -Research and Commentaries -The idea of education funding following the child has several names, such as weighted student funding, backpack funding, fair-student funding, student-based budgeting, and results-based budgeting. -
Research & Commentary: Civic Education
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Often lost in the attention rightly paid to students’ poor achievement in math and reading is that civic knowledge and participation have been sliding for decades in the United States. That undermines representative government. -
Research & Commentary: Early Childhood Education
Publication -Research and Commentaries -In November 2011, President Barack Obama restructured Head Start funding to require competitive grants for the least effective providers, to forestall congressional Republicans seeking to limit or repeal the program. -
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The Leaflet – The State of the States
Publication -The Leaflet -This week was President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address, and in many states the governors’ State of the State addresses. The main focus remains rebooting the economy. -
Research & Commentary: Race to the Top, Year One
Publication -Research and Commentaries -One-quarter of the states receiving part of the $4 billion in federal Race to the Top grants are in danger of losing those grants by failing to keep promises made to win them, said Education Secretary Arne Duncan while announcing the program’s first-year -
Research & Commentary: The College Bubble
Publication -Research and Commentaries -U.S. student loan debt has increased 500 percent since 1999, and the cost of college has risen 400 percent since the 1980s. Both have far outpaced overall inflation and price increases on such items as homes, new cars, and prescription drugs. -
Research & Commentary: Online and Blended Learning
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Two million K-12 students in the United States are enrolled in online classes this year, and full-time virtual enrollment has increased 40 percent in the past three years. -
Research & Commentary: For-Profit Competition in K-12 Education
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Increasing numbers of for-profit service providers have begun to enter the education sector, performing tasks from collecting and analyzing standardized test data to providing tutoring and bus services. -
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- Government & Liberty
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- Economy
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The Leaflet – Happy Holidays
Publication -The Leaflet -Happy holidays to everyone! As we get ready to ring in 2012 it gives us a chance to reflect upon 2011. For The Heartland Institute we had one of the best years yet. -
Research & Commentary: Anti-Bullying Measures
Publication -Research and Commentaries -All but three states have enacted anti-school-bullying legislation, 21 of them passing related laws in 2011. The U.S. -
Research & Commentary: The Parent Trigger, One Year Later
Publication -Research and Commentaries -California passed the first Parent Trigger law in January 2010, taking until September 2011 to confirm permanent regulations governing it. -
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- Environment & Energy
- Government & Liberty
- Education
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- Economy
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The Leaflet: Heartland Uncovers Shocking Medicare Wasteful Spending
Publication -The Leaflet -As you may already know, The Heartland Institute produces and sends out six monthly newspapers addressing the major domestic public policy issues to every national and state elected official in the U.S. -
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The Leaflet – The Amazon tax goes to Congress
Publication -The Leaflet -I hope everyone had a fun- and food-filled Thanksgiving! This week, I and a few other Heartland staffers are attending the American Legislative Exchange Council’s State’s and Nation’s Policy Summit in Scottsdale, Arizona. -
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The Leaflet – Thanksgiving & Capitalism
Publication -The Leaflet -Before free markets were established, the colonists had nothing for which to be thankful. ... -
Research & Commentary: Charter Schools and Incentives for Academic Success
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Approximately 5 percent of U.S. schoolchildren attend public charter schools, and several states—including Michigan and Wisconsin—are considering legislation to lift or remove caps on charter school growth. -
Research & Commentary: Harkin-Enzi NCLB Reauthorization
Publication -Research and Commentaries -The U.S. Senate is considering an 860-page bill and 868-page amendment by Sens. Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Mike Enzi (R-WY) to reauthorize No Child Left Behind. -
- Government & Politics
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- Environment & Energy
- Government & Liberty
- Education
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- Economy
- Government Spending
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The Leaflet – Mixed Election Results From States
Publication -Research and Commentaries -This week was election week for lawmakers in Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey, and Virginia. In Virginia power in the state senate for Republicans hinges on a slim 226 vote lead in the 17th district. -
Research & Commentary: President Obama’s Student Loan Executive Order
Publication -Research and Commentaries -President Barack Obama announced in October 2011 he will issue an executive order changing the federal student loan system.
