Education Reform Opinion
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RIANO: Here’s a Simple Way to Help Teachers Stay in Their Jobs
The solutions to this problem cannot be solved by simply throwing more money at it.
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SLOAN: Homogenizing Education in Pursuit of Equality over Excellence
If the goal is levelling, a homogenized society where absolute equality is the ultimate ambition, the pursuit of individual excellence…
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WHITMIRE: The Most Important Charter School Network in America Is Not What You Think
It’s time we corrected our gazes and gave attention where it’s due.
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STEWART: The Democratic Presidential Candidates Have Something for Everyone — Except Classroom Students
With stakes this high, I wonder if I could ever vote for a world leader who I think would make…
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WAI and WORRELL: How to Increase Access to Gifted Programs for Low-Income and Black and Latino Children
Many of the public school gifted and talented programs that serve high-ability students don’t reflect the diversity of their communities.…
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HESS: 4 Poll Results That’ll Shape the 2020 Election Education Debates
The cusp of every new school year is an education poll-apalooza. That’s when we get the two major annual polls…
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THE BRUNSWICK NEWS: Arguments against School Choice Don’t Make Sense
Listening to opponents of school choice is an amusing exercise — if, that is, you think it’s funny to hear…
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LADNER: Blaine, Blaine Go Away
In the next judicial session, the U.S. Supreme Court will have the opportunity to right institutionalized bigotry against religious groups…
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SCHULTZ: Democrats Love School Choice, Except When They’re Running for President
What do three of the Democratic presidential candidates all have in common? They were all once fervent supporters of school…
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GONZALES-NEAL: A Charter School Gave My Son Opportunity. Isn’t That What Democrats Should Stand For?
it is time for parents to remind politicians why charter schools exist and why families still need them.
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SAND: Greenlighting Classroom Disruptions
A new law that bans school suspensions for defiance is on the books in California.
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FRENCH: The Words Missing from a New York Times Essay about Religious Liberty
Targeting religion for disfavored treatment is exactly what Blaine amendments do. They were aimed squarely at Catholics
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DeANGELIS: Education Professors Misrepresent School Choice Yet Again
In their most recent piece, Lubienski and Malin claimed “seven of the nine [school choice studies since 2015] found that…
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ANTONUCCI: NEA Teachers Union Rebrands Read Across America to Avoid ‘Racist’ Dr. Seuss and Get More Credit for the Event
In 1997, the National Education Association came up with an idea to promote reading. The union decided to hold a…
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EDCHOICE: Tear Down These District Lines: Open Enrollment, The Secret Sauce Of School Choice?
It took way longer than it should have, but there aren’t many people out there who still believe you should…
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STEWART: The Biggest Threat to Public Education Is Still Its Insidious ‘Belief Gap’
For a long time school reform seemed to be winning the public argument about the failure of schools to prepare…
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EDEN and POLLACK: How a District Enabled Deranged Student-Turned-Shooter
This adapted excerpt, based on never-before-released educational records of the shooter, Nikolas Cruz, shows the Broward County school district knew…
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BUTCHER: If California Relies on Obama School Discipline Policy, It Will Put Students at Risk
Studies from Florida and Philadelphia found that leaving troubled or disruptive students in a classroom is related to negative academic…
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KLINSKY: As New York Charters Turn 20, Let Good Schools Flourish
Ten years ago, then-New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg praised charter schools as key to education success. But this summer,…
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BARNES: No Matter the Assessment, Schools Struggle to Close the Achievement Gap
Regardless of the assessment, one fact rings true: students of color continue to underperform when compared to their white counterparts.
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MOM: ‘Implying That Black and Hispanic Kids Only Do Better When They’re In School With White Kids Is Racist’
Don’t scrap the program because there are not enough Black and Hispanic kids in these programs. How about having those…
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PONDISCIO: The Secret of a Charter School’s Success? Parents
Low-income families ‘self-select’ for Success Academy’s demanding program, with remarkable results.
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PEEPLES: Teachers, I Love You, But Sometimes Your Unions Are Full of It
Ironically, I spent part of my Labor Day arguing with unionized teachers on social media. Yep, I sure did.
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BURKE: Why America’s Children Need Universal School Choice Now More Than Ever
Many of the country’s largest school districts give families no alternative to the nearest public school. They offer no charter…
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MURPHY: Under Assault: New York’s Private and Parochial Schools
Will the Regents and education bureaucrats succeed in forcing nonpublic schools to conform to unprecedented state control?
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