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
| 12/26/2010 |
Asbury Park (NJ) Press
Schools around the country have begun to show measurable progress closing achievement gaps, according to evidence from a growing range of sources. That’s the good news.
The bad news is that in New
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| 12/6/2010 |
Executive Summary
New Jersey’s court-ordered strategies for fixing fundamental shortcomings in educational quality in the state’s poorest schools have produced aggressive increases in state funding. But the quality of
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| 10/8/2010 |
Published in American Thinker
Nearly half of American history teachers believe it is less important that their students understand the common history, ideas, rights and responsibilities that tie the country together as Americans than
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| 10/7/2010 |
Executive Summary
For every five black boys between age 10 and 17 in the District of Columbia last year, three would not graduate high school on time. One was officially truant from school. And one was arrested as a
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| 9/16/2010 |
The Daily Caller
Textbooks and school activities that promote destructive forms of multiculturalism are proliferating in U.S. public schools, funded by local and federal tax dollars, with alarmingly little notice or resistance
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| 9/8/2010 |
Letter to the Editor, The New York Times
Regarding the usefulness of value-added scores for teachers, why shouldn’t parents be given the opportunity to enroll their children for individual teachers, not just schools, using such a tool?
Teacher
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| 9/5/2010 |
Lexington's Don Soifer interviewed on Fox News Network's "Fox and Friends" about proposed Obama Administration regulations on for-profit colleges and universities.
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| 8/15/2010 |
Roanoke (VA) Times
In October of 1925, The Grand Ole Opry went live on Nashville’s WSM radio, and America’s cultural fabric was changed forever. This year as The Opry celebrates its 85th birthday, country music continues
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| 7/29/2010 |
Research Study
California English learners continue to score extremely low on state standardized tests – two out of five at the sixth grade level scored below basic in English Language Arts in 2009, and more than half
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| 7/12/2010 |
Article originally appeared online in "Virtual School Meanderings"
As the Obama Administration prepares to announce the big winners in its signature Race to the Top and Investing in Innovation grant competitions, the Nation’s Capital seems to be sporting a bumper crop
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| 7/8/2010 |
Naples (FL) News
Florida.- Según los resultados del año 2009 de la evaluación nacional para el progreso educativo, estos mostraron que los niños latinos del cuarto y el octavo grados tienen dos veces más probabilidades
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| 7/6/2010 |
Issue Brief
As federal Education Department officials move closer to announcing the winning states in the second-round “Race to the Top” grant competition, much has been made of the varying buy-in from state teacher
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| 7/4/2010 |
Richmond Times-Dispatch
What educational benefits do the nation’s top-performing public charter schools have to offer Virginia? And what should be done, if anything, to attract them here?
These were among the questions discussed
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| 6/22/2010 |
Providence (RI) Journal
Cavernous achievement gaps between Latino and white children persist, as an education system largely dominated by teacher unions and powerful entrenched interests denies parents opportunities to make
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| 6/18/2010 |
Issue Brief
For active-duty military families who have children with disabilities, the challenges can be especially demanding. Frequent moves, and the education interruptions associated with them, can set back any
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| 6/3/2010 |
Research Study
Paper published in Spanish and English
Cavernous achievement gaps between Latino children in the United States and their white peers have not only persisted through the past decade, but have
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| 5/10/2010 |
Richmond Times-Dispatch
If the national teacher union chiefs are embarrassed by the suddenly pointed criticism the major media are leveling at their school-reform obstructionism, their actions don’t show it. Indeed, they are
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| 5/4/2010 |
Issue Brief
New research on state test scores by the Center on Education Policy confirms what some observers had predicted: that changes made in federal education policies for English learners as part of the No Child
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| 3/24/2010 |
Issue Brief
The “blueprint” for reforming federal education laws released last week by the Obama Administration appears to have met with the expected proportions, relatively even, of praise and criticism. But its
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| 3/22/2010 |
Norfolk Virginian-Pilot
One essential question following the March 10 release of the so-called Common Core national education standards is: How will students be tested for what the national standards-setters deem to be critical
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| 3/2/2010 |
Issue Brief
Three education proposals by Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, currently being considered by the General Assembly, represent important opportunities to advance public elementary and secondary education
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| 2/24/2010 |
The New York Times, Room for Debate Blog
A system like New York City’s that requires schools to pay upwards of $350,000 in fees, arbitration and salary, and then be forced to wait three years to dismiss an ineffective teacher, can’t possibly
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| 2/9/2010 |
Excerpts from Don Soifer’s interview with host Milt Rosenberg’s nightly radio show on Chicago’s WGN Radio – 720 AM. Don is interviewed along with two other guests, Dr. James Quaid, Associate Superintendent
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| 2/5/2010 |
Presentation to the Illinois Policy Institute
Summit on Vouchers and the Future of Education in Illinois.
Surveys repeatedly tell us that school safety is one of the most important factors parents consider when choosing a school for their
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| 2/2/2010 |
Issue Brief
One set of program details conspicuously absent from the Obama Administration’s proposed 2011 budget released this week was for Impact Aid, the federal Department of Education’s funding mechanism to public
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| 1/29/2010 |
El Periodico USA (McAllen, TX)
Los norteamericanos no saben de historia, tanto como creen, pero su conocimiento de la cultura popular sobrepasa todos los records.
Una nueva encuesta del American Revolution Center (ARC), una
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| 1/24/2010 |
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Even though national experts generally have given Virginia high marks for its Standards of Learning, those public schools at the bottom rungs of the achievement ladder continue to show little improvement
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| 1/13/2010 |
Issue Brief
National Education Association president Dennis Van Roekel is fond of asserting that, “A great public school for every student starts with a great teacher.” But his union’s advocacy agenda frequently
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