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The K-12 classroom must be recognized as “the front line in global economic competition,” according to a new study from the National Association of Manufacturers.

The Ohio Roundtable has accused the state’s House of Representatives of attempting to subvert the state constitution with a proposal that would allow it to pass a school funding tax with only a simple 50-vote majority, rather than a 60-vote

Republican and Democratic voters in southwest Pennsylvania strongly support school choice, as well as Governor Tom Ridge’s efforts to implement statewide academic standards that students must meet before advancing from one grade to the next.

Utah voters overwhelming support school choice, according to a survey of 300 Utah voters conducted last year by R.T. Nielson for the Utah Coalition for Freedom in Education.

In apparent disagreement with the Ohio Supreme Court, which recently ruled the state must increase its education funding, only one out of three Ohio small business owners believes that too little is being spent on public education.

In his State of the Union message on January 27, 1998, President Bill Clinton embraced the idea of reducing class size to 18 for students in grades one through three in the nation’s public schools.

An accountant in green eyeshades, standing on the barricades and consulting a spreadsheet to direct the army of change, is an unlikely revolutionary figure in the battle for school reform.

While schools may adopt different forms, the commitment to classical education is marked by certain common elements: Commitment to a liberal, or general curriculum, rather than a narrow approach or one where students can evade issues; Explicit

Although Members of Congress have consistently rejected legislation that would provide vouchers, scholarships, tax-free savings incentives, or direct aid for low-income children to attend better K-12 schools, more than 115 sponsors have already been

When civil rights organizations like the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People organize to defeat voucher legislation, they may find themselves working against the wishes of their own constituencies.

While just a few million dollars invested for small school voucher experiments has spurred some movement in the nation’s $300 billion public school system, the Annenberg Foundation’s investment of a half billion dollars to improve urban public schools

Opening her new Preparatory School of Wisconsin last August, Marva Collins expanded her focus on excellence and high expectations to include inner-city minority students in Milwaukee.

In a surprise ruling issued December 17, a divided New Hampshire Supreme Court declared that the state’s current system of funding public education, where local property taxes pay for almost 90 percent of the costs, is unconstitutional.

The actions of Washington state’s Public Disclosure Commission belied its middle name when, after finding the top executive of the local teachers union guilty of falsely identifying his employer on more than 100 occasions, the Commission levied a fine

Five out of six Americans (84 percent) believe that teachers should be retested regularly in order to keep their teaching licenses, according to an October 23 poll conducted for Good Housekeeping.

California * Colorado * Florida New Jersey * Ohio * Texas * Virginia CALIFORNIA Fewer Eligible to Attend State University Although more students are taking the classes needed to become eligible for admission to California’s state

Although many public schools are responding to the threat of competition from voucher programs, expanded private scholarship programs, charter schools, and open enrollment, most are effectively insulated from change by structural and political

Every Subject Has Its Own Trivium Grammar Logic Rhetoric Learning Mode Memorization Probing Q/A Papers, case studies, projects Language Vocabulary, rules of grammar Reading, writing Composition, exposition Mathematics Numbers, facts,

A little competition goes a long way. That’s what parents across the country are discovering as a variety of school choice experiments begin to challenge the long-standing inertia of a monopolistic and hitherto unresponsive public school system.

From his first-term Goals 2000 initiative to last year’s promotion of national education standards, President Bill Clinton has worked to wrest authority over public schools from local communities and transfer it to state and federal governments,

The author of a report recently released by the Center for the Study of American Business warns that a federal environmental aristocracy has seized the reins of power to solve local environmental issues, depriving state and local elected officials of

Michael Gough is director of science and risk studies at the Cato Institute, where he has worked since 1996. Trained in molecular biology with a Ph.D.

Experts in nutrition and food safety have overwhelmingly rejected a report released January 29 by an activist environmental group alleging that over one million American infants and children are exposed each day to unsafe doses of pesticides in their

Healthier forests and richer harvests are just two of the things people can look forward to if worldwide levels of the notorious “pollutant” carbon dioxide (CO2) continue to rise, notes a study recently released by the Dallas-based National Center for