Education Reform Opinion
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WILL: Why Warren’s Ardent Defense of the Teachers Union Monopoly Hurts Students
Two women — one black and not affluent; one white, wealthy and famous — are contrasting faces of America’s debate…
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WEISBERG: The Biggest Scandal in Education Is Hiding in Plain Sight
Unfortunately, for millions of families, report card grades are deeply misleading—offering false confidence that their children are well-prepared for their…
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WILLIAMS: There’s a Real Progressive Case for Supporting Charter Schools
Properly implemented, charter schools can provide a valuable challenge to the injustice of neighborhood-based school enrollment.
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THE NEWS-GAZETTE: Invest in Kids?
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McCLUSKEY: Cut Off Anti-LGBTQ Schools? It’s Complicated
Should we curb freedom because some people use it in ways we despise? That is at the heart of a…
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PREWITT: I Sacrifice So My Children Have Great Education. Others Aren’t So Lucky
School choice in Memphis is seemingly a luxury to some but a hard fought battle for most.
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BRADFORD: ‘Too Close’ for Comfort? Progressive ‘Colorblind Racism’ Is Driving Opposition to Boston Charter School
Although some believe “the North” and its progressive bastions are beyond such vile social inertia, one need only look to…
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ROTHERHAM and WHITMIRE: Low-Income Parents Seeking Charter Schools Losing Support from Both Left and Right
Lost in last week’s frenetic news about Trump’s revenge tour and an unpredictable international virus, a big story got overlooked:…
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ZANE: ‘Money Produces Results’ and Other Myths about Education
One sign that our schools are failing to deliver on that core mission is the array of myths that dominate…
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STOLL: On Education, Bloomberg Is Everywhere
Even when you look somewhere in the education world that you might not expect to find Michael Bloomberg — say,…
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MALKUS and MARTIN: How to Downsize the Federal Education Role — without Attracting Attention
These clever tweaks make this year’s proposal much less likely to provoke controversy.
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PETRILLI and FINN: School Choice Is Not Enough
Conservatives must reengage with education reform, both in its structure and in the substance of what we want children to…
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ROWE: The 1619 Project Perpetuates the Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations
In addition to convincing New York Times magazine readers that “our democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written,”…
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PULLMANN: Trump First President to Budget for Sending Education Bucks Back to States
President Trump's block-grant plan is a bold call to congressional Republicans to not squander their next opportunity to relieve U.S.…
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WILLIAMS: Rosa Parks, Barack Obama Believed in Charter Schools
Rosa Parks knew that the way to lift African American children out of poverty in Detroit was through education. And…
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HESS: Why Charter Schoolers Are Feuding with Betsy DeVos
Public and private reactions have made it clear that this back-and-forth confused many observers, for whom it seemed to come…
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WALSH: We Teach Our Kids to Be Doormats and Then Wonder Why There Is a ‘Bullying Epidemic’
Somehow the strong, courageous, bigger child, who spends his childhood avoiding confrontation and retreating in the face of aggressors, never…
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DOUGHERTY: Trump’s Big Bet on Career and Technical Education
President Donald Trump has proposed one of the largest increases in funding for career and technical education in recent history.
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COONS: The State of the (Teachers) Union
Somebody in the White House has been thinking. President Trump’s recent State of the Union address, while wanting perhaps in…
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BEIENBURG: School Choice and Greater Transparency Can Save Us from Woke Classrooms
Teachers should post syllabi and class materials online, so parents can make the right choice for their kids.
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THOMAS: DeVos Doubles Down on Education Reforms
If the secretary of Education succeeds, she will have improved the education of millions of children.
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FINN: Has Trump Turned against Charter Schools?
Viewed from 30,000 feet, this is a Lilliputian issue alongside the Brobdingnagian changes in federal spending priorities that would be…
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BARNARD: School Choice Is Disrupting Public School System — And That’s the Point
Blame school districts for the flaws they've allowed to fester, not parents for wanting better education for their kids.
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SAND: Teachers Unions Lose It over State of the Union Address
Union leaders are enraged at Trump and DeVos for the audacity of promoting parental choice.
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SKORUP: A Teacher Union Fact Check on School Choice
It is strange to refer to low-income families looking for better opportunities for their children as “wealthy special interests.”
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