Education
Monday, May 27, 2013
Top Story
5/24/2013
San Diego Union-Tribune
Right now, some California students are sitting for hours pouring over testing booklets and filling in scantron bubbles. The results of that will shape the fate of their teachers, principals, district officials and become the conversation fodder for the education politics of the year to come.
Yet those students’ parents, the real education deciders, and the students themselves receive almost no feedback from their hard work. Why?
Because the California Department of Education delivers the results of the March, April and May test to principals and local school officials in mid-August and last year (after a security breach) officials didn’t get results until mid-September. Parents did not see the schoolwide results until mid-October, well after school started and 6 months after most enrollment
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Features
5/20/2013
National Review Online
School Dollars Should Follow Success, Not Just Enrollment
The decision of the Louisiana supreme court to strike down as unconstitutional the funding mechanism of the state’s school-voucher program is a major blow to school-choice supporters, but the biggest
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5/9/2013
Over the past decade, the United States has spent upwards of $100 billion on K-12 classroom technology to no discernible effect. The reason is clear: most education technology in use in K-12 classrooms
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5/7/2013
Real Clear Policy
Time may be running out for supporters of education vouchers. The very survival of the schools that would benefit most from vouchers is in doubt. Faith-based schools, especially Catholic and Jewish day
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Education Articles
| 11/6/2011 |
Richmond Times Dispatch (VA)
While Virginia was a national leader in developing substantive content standards for basic K-12 subjects in the 1990s, it has lagged badly in enabling parents to make choices as to which schools best
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| 10/18/2011 |
Issue Brief
As Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the leadership of the Chicago Public Schools have pressed to lengthen their school day by 90 minutes, the response from its teachers union has raised some eyebrows
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| 9/30/2011 |
Issue Brief
Civil rights authorities at the federal Education and Justice departments have called off their investigation of Arizona policies intended to ensure that teachers of English Language Learners (ELLs) can
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| 9/19/2011 |
Jack Kemp Foundation - Game Plan for an Exceptional America
“America needs an education system where parents have influence and values have a voice.” — Jack Kemp
A great nation requires an effective system of education, in the twenty-first century more
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| 9/14/2011 |
Testimony before the Pennsylvania House of Representatives State Government Committee
An effective policy focus supporting English language use would have strong potential to benefit Pennsylvania educationally and economically. If implemented soundly, it can benefit the state’s economy
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| 8/26/2011 |
Issue Brief
Obama Administration officials announced earlier this month that they would consider waiver requests from states “seeking relief” from provisions in the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). Without offering
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| 7/8/2011 |
Issue Brief
President Obama this week continued to describe his Administration’s changes to federal student lending programs as essential steps in fighting rising college costs. But research continues to demonstrate
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| 7/1/2011 |
Daily Oklahoman
The waning of U.S. history and civics as subjects taught in public schools has received little attention in education reform debates of recent years, except for occasional alarms raised by scholarly commissions.
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| 6/24/2011 |
Washington Times
Already, national political fundraising machines are beginning to hum and sputter toward early targets in their quests to break another election cycle’s worth of spending records.
The nation’s largest
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| 6/19/2011 |
Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch
The latest national sampling of what students know and understand about United States history yielded an answer in line with numerous surveys done by both governmental and independent authorities in recent
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| 5/18/2011 |
Armed Forces Journal Letter to the Editor
Online programs that utilize state-of-the-art education technology represent a promising venue for officer education educational development, as retired Col. Gwynne Burke suggests, (“A Better Way to Educate,”
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| 5/16/2011 |
Issue Brief
Empire-building aspirations by officials in charge of federal programs are nothing new. But the Obama Administration officials running the U.S. Department of Education are taking this time-honored practice
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| 4/27/2011 |
This 5-minute excerpt is from Lexington’s Don Soifer’s interview on one of the Washington, DC-area’s top public radio talk shows, the Kojo Nnamdi Show on 88.5 FM WAMU. The guest host was Washington Post
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| 4/12/2011 |
Manchester (NH) Union-Leader
No recent indicator of Americans’ ignorance of their nation’s history has been more distressing than the high percentage of adults and schoolchildren who can’t even pass the simple test required of
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| 3/17/2011 |
Washington Examiner
For more than 70,000 schoolchildren in the nation's capital, choices exist and progress is evident, but excellence remains troublingly scarce.
Alternatives, especially charter schools and out-of-boundary
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| 3/9/2011 |
Europe’s leaders seemingly have awakened from a long slumber to discover that state-sponsored multiculturalism threatens the fabric of their societies. Their somber conclusions should cause reflection
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| 2/11/2011 |
Issue Brief
New Jersey’s teacher union leaders have continued to adamantly insist that their opposition to choice-based school reforms is with the best interests of students at heart. But, as the following recent
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| 2/11/2011 |
Issue Brief
The leaders of New Jersey’s teacher unions characterize their fervent opposition to choice-based reforms as being steeped in their commitment to classroom excellence. But by opposing educational options
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| 1/27/2011 |
The National Education Association, along with others among the nation’s entrenched education interest groups, are aggressively lobbying Education Secretary Arne Duncan to make radical use of agency waivers
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| 1/10/2011 |
Richmond Times-Dispatch
The Virginia Board of Education expects to finalize new statewide guidelines for reviewing charter applications at its public meeting Jan. 13. The new procedures are based on changes signed into law last
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| 1/2/2011 |
Daily Oklahoman
Brother, can you spare $3.6 trillion?
Currently in the United States, state and local government employees’ pension and retiree health-benefit plans are under water to the tune of some $3.6 trillion,
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