Education Reform Opinion
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Education Reform Opinion
SAND: The Unions Keep Rigging the Rules As Workers Sue Them
The public employee unions have not been at all contrite since their 41 year run of legalized theft came to…
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ARCHBOLD: What Would a Justice Kavanaugh Mean for Catholic Education?
The nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court Justice has ignited storms of protests from the left, mostly…
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MATUS: By Criticizing School Choice, Democrats May Well Alienate Democrats
That Democratic candidates might feel obliged to condemn school choice is no surprise, given the fact that teachers unions, whose…
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SMARICK: A Modest Proposal
Three lessons from Hayek that helped a conservative reformer understand that authority should be devolved.
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LEONHARDT: A Better Way to Run Schools
The New Orleans turnaround shows the power of giving more freedom to teachers and principals — and then holding them…
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FLYNN and OLSON: Eligible Students Are Being Denied Special Education Funding in Massachusetts
To those of us who have advocated for special needs children and fought for the poor and needy in a…
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SAND: Still Pulling the Strings
Before, during, and after the Janus proceedings, public unions pumped out a steady stream of clichés, claiming that the court…
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LANGHORNE: How Teacher-Powered Schools Treat Educators Like Professionals
Despite the number of highly educated people who become teachers, the traditional system treats teachers like industrial workers rather than…
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ESENBERG: Trump Should Rescind Obama Guidance on School Discipline
Given that nonracial factors affecting student behavior — poverty, family structure, peer influence — are present to differing degrees among…
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PULLMANN: 6 Big Changes Coming to Public Schools and Politics Thanks to SCOTUS’s Union Smashdown
Every state is now essentially a right to work state. It's not an overstatement to say this ruling is a…
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SAND: No Dues without Political Representation
Dissident educators have the power to change the course of teacher union politics in California.
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MATUS: You Paint a ‘Dark Picture’ of Education’s Future
The St. Augustine Record paints a dark picture of Florida’s education landscape, calling a system that offers more options to…
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AHEARN: Can We Design Online Learning Platforms That Feel More Intimate Than Massive?
The majority of online learning environments are no more than video-hosting platforms with quizzes and a discussion forum. These default…
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McSHANE: Does a Justice Kavanaugh Mean That Blaine Amendments Are History?
I’ll leave it to the legal scholars to assess the broad implications of a potential Justice Kavanaugh, but I do…
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IZUMI: The Wisdom of Trump’s Plan to Merge Departments of Education and Labor
The new proposal by the Trump administration to merge the Education and Labor departments addresses inherent inefficiencies and promotes logical…
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WRIGHT: Turns Out Privatizing Education Is Harder Than It Looks
None of us who are supposedly doing the privatizing are aware of it. We all thought we were working to…
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NORTHERN and PETRILLI: It’s Time to Irrigate Oklahoma City’s Charter School Deserts
In a country built on the freedom to choose — whether that's Verizon or AT&T, Hulu or Netflix, iPhone or…
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SHARVY: We Need School Choice for Education without Dogma
School choice is not religious in principle. It is anti-dogma in principle, valuing the fit between school and student, asserting…
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SCHILLING: An Economic Case for School Choice
What can be done to improve the state of our education system so that more young people finish high school…
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LIEBOWITZ and KELLY: Education Narrative Favoring Wealthier, Whiter States Proven Wrong
Conventional rankings are severely flawed, as is the consensus of which states educate best.
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HARRIS: An Open Letter from America’s Children
Dear U.S. Media, Democrats, Republicans, Independents and to the concerned Americans who poured out into the streets to protest Donald…
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IZUMI: How the Media Got the Janus Decision Wrong
In their stories on the Supreme Court’s historic Janus decision striking down compelled fees for non-union public employees to public-sector…
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LINEHAN: Teachers Deserve School Choice Too
What if more educators could and did leverage school choice to improve their own options while at the same time…
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HRONCICH: What Does Janus Mean for School Choice?
While the repercussions of this ruling remain to be seen, expanded access to school choice is one likely outcome.
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District of Columbia
BURKE: DC Opportunity Scholarship Program Proves Cost Effective, Boosts Grad Rates
An evaluation of the program, published by the Department of Education, found that participating students graduated at a rate 21…
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