Education Reform Opinion
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RICHWINE and BIGGS: The ‘Underpaid Teachers’ Myth
In the real world, employees are paid not only for the number of years they sat in a classroom, but…
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STEWART: Curbing Charter School Growth Robs Black and Brown Students of Options
Black leaders across America should be paying attention to the educational assault on people of color under way in the…
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COHEN: Environmental Indoctrination in Our Schools
Ever wonder why kids come home from school often sounding as if they had received woefully inadequate instruction in everything…
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BUTCHER: This Arizona Policy Change Is Robbing Navajo Kids of School Opportunity
Three thousand and one hundred feet. That’s the distance between Hilltop Christian School in New Mexico and the Arizona border—but…
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CLAYPOOL: Alternative Education Key to Boosting Graduation Rates
I fear a high school diploma is becoming an illusion for hundreds of thousands of students as the process to…
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ELLIOT: Imagining Los Angeles without Charter Schools
What would public education look like, and how would the system have impacted a generation of Los Angeles students?
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LOWRY: Comrade Sanders Targets Charter Schools
Sanders seeks to kneecap what has been an astonishingly successful experiment in education.
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SCHWALBACH: How Charter Schools Empower Inner-City Children to Escape Failing Public Schools
Instead of being trapped by their ZIP codes, the advent of charter schools meant that low-income parents were no longer…
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MATUS: Teachers Union ‘Analysis’ of Florida’s New Voucher Undeserving of Media Coverage
The Florida Education Association, which is virulently opposed to private school vouchers, has released a perfectly predictable fiscal impact “analysis”…
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BARSHAY: Lessons from Boston: ‘No Excuses’ Charter Schools Kept Boosting Student Test Scores after Expansion
Researchers find a possible model for how to allow the charter sector to grow.
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ADAMS: It’s the Hypocrisy, Stupid: NYC School Choice For… Some
It’s one thing when celebrities are school-choice hypocrites.
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FLANDERS: For Teachers Unions, Up Is Down on Charter Schools
Teachers unions couch most arguments that benefit unionized public school teachers, like increased teacher pay, as being in the interest…
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CHAIT: Bernie Sanders Wants to Destroy the Best Schools Poor Urban Kids Have
If enacted, the Sanders plan would snuff out one of the most successful social policy innovations in decades, and close…
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WILL: Children Shouldn’t Have to Pay the Price for James G. Blaine’s Bigotry
Aggressive secularists, and persons bent on defending public education from competition, favor Blaine Amendments.
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KIRK: Let’s Talk about Education and School Choice in 2020
Republicans need to include universal school choice in their campaign platforms. They will catch progressives flat-footed trying to argue why…
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McCLUSKEY: DC Vouchers: Bang for the Buck
So DC vouchers are a test-score wash. But they are a plus in many other areas, including reducing chronic absenteeism,…
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JACQUES: $47 Million for Michigan Charter Schools Being Held Hostage
A nearly $50 million federal grant intended to improve education quality in Michigan is being held hostage by the state…
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REES and EDELIN: Charter School Facilities Are Still Overlooked and Underfunded
Nearly 1 in 5 charters had to delay opening by a year or more due to facilities-related issues.
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DeANGELIS: School Choice Works — for a Third of The Cost
School choice opponents frequently claim the Washington, D.C., school voucher program is a failure. But I have a hunch that’s…
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EL-MEKKI: Black Folks, Stop Chasing White Integration. It’s Not the Surest Path to Black Student Achievement
We, as a nation, are chasing the wrong things. From Boston to Birmingham, we have seen the ferocious and virulent…
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McSHANE: Choose Your Own Adventure: K-12 Educational Options Aren’t Just for the Elite Any More
The central question of school choice policy today is not whether or not school choice will exist, but rather who…
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LAKE and JOCHIM: ‘Inconvenient Truths’ Missing from Oakland Report on Charter Schools
The district’s own data and independent financial audits tell a different story. This is a critical question to get right…
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STEWART: Maybe It’s Time to Stop Expecting the Promise of Brown v. Board to Be Fulfilled
Every few years, there is a predictable tide of articles proclaiming that it’s the anniversary of Brown v. Board and…
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ADAMS: Who’s the Boss? Should Kids Be in Charge of Their Own Education?
It’s an impulse I fight on a daily basis. I don’t want to be like those parents who believe everyone…
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SIDOROVA: Outdated Regs Are Slowing Technological Progress in Education
The real reason small business gets crushed in tech and monopolies emerge isn’t the free market—it’s a smothering bureaucracy. And…
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