Education Reform Opinion
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HANUSHECK: Professionalizing Teaching and Winning the Salary Wars
The nation is stuck with a bad equilibrium in terms of teacher salaries: salaries are insufficient to attract new teachers…
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MALKUS: Are Screens Behind Falling Test Scores?
As stated previously, and repeatedly, I don’t know what to pin the test declines on. I can only guess, and…
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PEISER, TOLL and BARTH: Democrats Need a Charter School Education
Our school systems were founded by teachers and serve more than 134,000 students — almost all of them black and…
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GRIFFITH and YOUNG: New Study Shows that California’s Anti-Carter Law Will Be ‘Devastating’ for Los Angeles Students
After years of growth, the future of California’s charter sector is in doubt.
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MAXWELL: Elizabeth Warren and the Democrats Choose Teachers Unions over Black Families
Warren’s [education] proposal reflects the ever-widening disconnect between the Democratic Party and its crucial African American voting base.
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DeGROW: What You Really Need to Know about Michigan Charter Schools
A recent MLive article claimed to offer “Everything you need to know about Michigan’s charter schools.” It didn’t do that,…
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TUTHILL: Growth in Florida’s Education Choice Programs Accelerating
Unfortunately, we don’t have the funds to provide scholarships to every qualified student. We have 35,825 students who have been…
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COLEMAN: Specialized High School Admissions Test Isn’t the Problem, Reading Is
I’m a woman of color, and I do well on tests. I’m not the only one. Knowing that I’m not…
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THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: As Students Flee and Contract Costs Rise: Close Chicago’s Half-Empty Schools
A year ago the district reported a drop of 10,000 students. The year before that, 11,000 seats had gone empty.…
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McWHORTER: The Show-Trial Rhetoric That Took Down a Charter School Founder
A petition accusing Steven Wilson of “white supremacist” language makes no sense, and barely tries to.
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DeANGELIS: Warren’s Ginormous School Choice Hypocrisy
Elizabeth Warren proudly opposes school choice — for your kids. She apparently could afford to take her own son out…
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LANDRIEU and EDELIN: It’s Morally and Legally Wrong to Deny Charter Schools Access to Unused School Buildings
School buildings ought to be used as schools, particularly when there are 12,000 students on waiting lists to attend a…
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BUCK: I’m a Teacher and a Waste of Money
If only public education policy were as simple as Here’s More Funding. I am proof that things are more complicated…
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SANZI: State Rep’s Hostility (and Profanity) Toward Private and Religious Schools is Disqualifying
Her rant raises major questions not only about the biases she brings with her to the house education committee but…
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LADNER: Arizona’s Success with Charter Schools Is a Model Other States Would Be Wise to Follow
States would do well to take a long, hard look at Arizona’s demand-driven education system. They’d like what they saw.
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HARTMAN: Virginia Walden Ford’s Is the Great American Story
Overcoming several obstacles, including her own fear of public speaking and the powerful educational establishment, Ford and the D.C. Parents…
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TUTHILL: Charter Schools and the Unbundling of K-12 Education Services
Products and services in many industries are in the process of being unbundled. Thirty years ago, we had to buy…
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ROWE: Lack of Shop Classes Is Why We’re $1.6T in Student Debt
We have unintendedly maligned an entire section of our workforce by promoting one form of education ... at the expense…
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KRISTIAN: Kamala Harris’ 10-Hour School Day Plan Is Part of a Troubling Trend
There are some significant assumptions in this diagnosis and Harris' response that merit scrutiny.
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McSHANE: Hybrid Homeschoolers Are Definite Optimists
This bodes well, both for hybrid homeschooling and for educational improvement in general.
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CHU: Why Reformers Will Miss Secretary DeVos When She’s Gone
I imagined President-elect Warren shaking hands with Randi Weingarten in the White House Rose Garden followed by an exchange between…
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SPIROPOULOS: School Choice Programs Can Make a Difference
Knowing bad news is coming doesn’t make getting it easier. Very few were surprised that Oklahoma students in both of…
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WATCH: Is This Kamala’s Worst Idea Yet?
Matt Walsh breaks down 2020 Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris' proposal to extend school by three hours.
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WATERS: School Choice Opponents’ Hypocrisy Unmasked
What's more hypocritical than an attorney general with the financial means to provide his own children with a private education…
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WALTERS: California Audit Backs School Finance Critics
Will Gov. Gavin Newsom, the state school board he appoints and state schools Supt. Tony Thurmond act or continue the…
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