Author Archives: Robert Holland
Tough Love: Norfolk Charter School’s Success Shows Promise in Richmond Article published in The Richmond Times DispatchStewards of public schools tend to recoil from proposals to make greater use of private providers in rescuing struggling students. Granted, years of free-marketeer’ rhetoric about “government
Schools” and privatizing all education may [Read More...]
Virginia Teachers Joining a Nationwide Declaration of Independence Article Exclusive to The ExaminerA major realignment quietly underway in American education could have profound implications for teachers and public education generally.
Without much fanfare, teachers have been resisting pressures to join or stick with the dominant labor unions [Read More...]
Harvard Study Shows That Voucher Threat Helps Raise Test Scores In Florida Issue BriefBecause of its extensive use of various forms of parental choice to reform public schools, Florida has become something of a laboratory for education researchers. Now two Harvard University scholars have found that the vouchers offered under Governor [Read More...]
Teacher Union Fears Utah’s Special-Needs Vouchers Will Advance Broader Choice Parents of learning-disabled children and advocates of educational choice cheered last week when Utah Governor John Huntsman, Jr. signed a bill making Utah the second state in the nation to enact a voucher program enabling students with disabilities to attend [Read More...]
Chicago Graduation Rates Revel Crisis, Coverup Issue BriefSeeking ways to reform high schools, members of the National Governors Association (NGA) got a reality check recently in the form of a study showing only slightly more than one-half of Chicago’s public high school students graduate in [Read More...]
A School Choice Tax Credit to the Rescue of Overcrowded Public Schools Article Published in The Northern Virginia JournalContact Info for Writer: (703) 522-5807 or (703) 897-7953 A School Choice Tax Credit to the Rescue of Overcrowded Public Schools
By Robert Holland
One of the most innovative problem-solving plans to go [Read More...]
Park Place School: Mustering Private Resources To Help Struggling Inner-City Children, And Returning Them To Public Schools As Successful Students Many public-school officials take a jaundiced view of private providers helping with the task of public education.However, a remarkable private school in inner-city Norfolk, Virginia—a school deserving of being a national model—shows that a private, non-profit organization can be a [Read More...]
Reagan: Do Not Let America’s Story Sink into the Memory Hole Article published in The Fredericksburg (VA) Free Lance-StarGeorge Washington warned the young Republic against entering into “entangling alliances.” Dwight Eisenhower sounded an alarm about the potential influence of a “military-industrial complex.”
Warnings in presidential farewells have become something of [Read More...]
Is Kerry’s ‘No Questions Asked’ the Way of An Education Reformer? Article published in The Roanoke (VA) TimesWASHINGTON — “Mandatory Funding for Schools — No Questions Asked.”
That bullet point tops a list of priorities in the education plan Senator John Kerry recently unveiled as part of his Democratic presidential [Read More...]
Kerry In Lockstep With The NEA Article published in Human EventsOn the presidential campaign trail, Senator John Kerry has embraced almost the totality of the National Education Association’s wish list for public schools now that the leaders of the nation’s largest teacher union have given [Read More...]