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
| 12/29/2009 |
Americans don’t know nearly as much about U.S. history as they think they know. But their knowledge of popular culture is off the charts.
A new survey commissioned by the non-profit, non-partisan
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| 12/18/2009 |
Research Study
The appalling results of de-emphasizing the study of U.S. history in elementary and secondary schools have become painfully obvious in recent years.
In the most recent round of the National Assessment
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| 12/10/2009 |
Issue Brief
The Obama Administration has made a top education priority of the elimination of federally guaranteed student loans by private-sector lenders, to be replaced by expanding the federal Education Department’s
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| 11/19/2009 |
Issue Brief
Governor-elect Bob McDonnell and his incoming administration face an historic opportunity to draw from the best of the nation’s 5,000 public charter school leaders and models to help energize a high-performing
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| 11/18/2009 |
Remarks at the Thomas Jefferson Institute Annual Policy Luncheon
These are exciting times for Virginia education. With a newly-elected Governor who not only supports charter schools, but brought them up frequently and with enthusiasm throughout his campaign; a President
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| 11/5/2009 |
The Lexington Institute will host a policy forum on the future of the federal student loan program in the United States. The event will take place Tuesday, November 10, from 9:30 – 11:00 AM at
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| 10/26/2009 |
Issue Brief
A study of New York City public charter schools published last month produced some of the most positive evidence to date of charters’ educational benefits. The report, by a research team headed by Caroline
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| 10/15/2009 |
Article Detroit News
When they look back on the Obama years, the national teacher unions may reflect in Dickensian manner that “it was the best of times, it was the worst of times . . . it was the spring of hope, it was the
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| 9/29/2009 |
Research Study
Executive Summary
Chicago’s Limited English Proficient (LEP) and Hispanic students will play a major role in determining the city’s economic future. Unfortunately, these two critical groups
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| 9/22/2009 |
Issue Brief
Can you name a school you would describe as “persistently dangerous?” You might think so, but according to official education statistics, there are only 38 persistently dangerous public schools in the
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| 9/3/2009 |
Issue Brief
Most of the 11 million English learners living in the United States are adults. Their ability to learn English has a major impact on their economic future, but also on that of their families and the
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| 8/28/2009 |
A joint paper by the Heritage Foundation and Lexington Institute
As American students head back to school, many parents will worry about their children’s safety at school during the coming year, especially in cities including the nation's capital. In 2009, the U.S.
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| 8/18/2009 |
The Baltimore Sun Article
The movement to adopt national education standards is hurtling down the tracks to acceptance, even as many of the decision-makers behind it are laying eyes on the draft for the first time. While “voluntary”
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| 8/2/2009 |
Richmond Times-Dispatch by Robert Holland
August 2, 2009
Virginia is one of 46 states lined up in support of the campaign led by Washington-based lobbyists and backed by the Obama administration to write National Education Standards. The collaborationists
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| 7/31/2009 |
Issue Brief
Children’s ability to learn new languages is strongest between birth and age seven, and becomes much more difficult after puberty, according to new research published in the July 2009 issue of the journal
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| 7/17/2009 |
Issue Brief
Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings this week focused often on her 12-year tenure as a board member of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund (PRLDEF). The extent of
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| 6/26/2009 |
Issue Brief
When courts measure the quality of education programs strictly in terms of dollars spent, student and taxpayer are both imperiled. This is especially true for English Language Learners, probably the
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| 6/12/2009 |
Article The Index-Journal (Greenwood, SC)
A combination of home schooling and online instruction is an option that appeals to a growing number of American parents. In South Carolina, families are beginning to be able to have that as well as other
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| 6/12/2009 |
Article Richmond Times-Dispatch
The role of charter schools in K-12 education reform could gain focus in this fall’s Virginia gubernatorial election.
Republican candidate Bob McDonnell said last week Virginians ought to have alternative
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| 6/5/2009 |
Research Study Executive Summary
lllinois’ Woodland Community Consolidated School District 50, located 40 miles north of Chicago, in Lake County, educates nearly 7,000 students in grades K-8. The district has a diverse population of
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| 5/29/2009 |
Issue Brief
Virginia’s Governor’s School Program is thriving, while its charter school movement is still struggling to get off the ground. The top Governor’s School, Fairfax County’s Thomas Jefferson High School
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| 5/22/2009 |
Letter to the Editor USA Today
To the Editor:
Senator Dick Durbin’s Opposing View column (“Voucher Program Flops,” May 19) states that most parents wouldn’t give the results of Washington, DC’s Opportunity Scholarship program “a
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| 5/13/2009 |
Issue Brief
New Jersey’s Interdistrict Public School Choice Program is a largely unknown reform model whose time may have come. The voluntary program began as a five-year pilot ten years ago, and is still going
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| 5/4/2009 |
Lexington Institute's Don Soifer debates the future of bilingual education with American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten and Aspira President Ron Blackburn-Moreno on the national cable
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| 4/29/2009 |
Issue Brief
All signs point to the $787 billion federal economic-stimulus package signed into law on February 17 by President Obama becoming just the beginning of a major increase in governmental involvement in early
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| 4/14/2009 |
Issue Brief
Virginia’s Class of 2008 had an on-time graduation rate of 82.1 percent, and a dropout rate of 8.7 percent, according to new data from the Virginia Department of Education. The worse news is that the
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| 4/10/2009 |
Article NewAmericaMedia.org
Nobody knows for certain what made Jiverly Wong walk into a citizenship class for immigrants in Binghamton, New York and open fire with two handguns, killing 13 people before taking his own life.
But
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| 4/7/2009 |
Research Study
What is the cost to the United States economy attributable to a lack of basic English skills? There are currently over 11 million English learners living in the United States, including over 5 million
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| 3/26/2009 |
Issue Brief
President Obama has consistently described improving America’s education system as a central component of his strategy to increase long-term economic growth, beginning with a plan for federal early childhood
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| 3/17/2009 |
Testimony U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor
WATCH VIDEO
TESTIMONY BEFORE THE U.S.
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| 3/5/2009 |
Article Detroit News
President Barack Obama's secretary of education, Arne Duncan, sounds sincere in saying he wants to use education's juicy $100 billion slice of the federal stimulus act to bring about constructive change,
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| 1/8/2009 |
Issue Brief
When the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Studies (TIMSS) test scores came out last month, much was made of a slight improvement in U.S. test scores. Though there were marginal improvements
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