Education Policy Center

New Funding Reports Try to Sound the Alarms, But Simply Don’t Add Up 0
- EDUCATION - Blogs
- June 9, 2015
Are you interested in new K-12 “research” that creates new ways to measure funding, obsesses over inputs, rests on logical leaps, AND challenges its own claims? Well, then I have a couple reports for you! The headlines create such drama: Washington Post, “Inequitable school funding called ‘one of the sleeper civil rights issues of our […]
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Union Interns Unionize Against Union 0
- EDUCATION - Blogs
- June 5, 2015
I’m pretty jaded for a five-year-old. Not much surprises me when it comes to edu-news. But sometimes, just sometimes, I see a headline that really catches my eye. Usually, that moment is followed by me checking the calendar for dangerous dates (remember April Fools’ Day?) and ensuring that I’m not looking at something like The […]
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Nevada Joins Ranks of ESA States, Adds Momentum to Educational Choice 0
- EDUCATION - Blogs, EDUCATION - School Choice
- June 3, 2015
A few months ago one of my Education Policy Center friends created one of the first-ever Freedom Minute videos on “The Education Debit Card.” Remember? It’s everywhere you want to learn or Don’t leave home without it. The Education Debit Card is a catchier name for Education Savings Accounts (ESAs). Dubbed the “iPhone” of school […]
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New Study on School Funding Assumes Its Way into Trouble 0
- EDUCATION - Blogs
- June 2, 2015
Sometimes I just want to get nerdy. I don’t mean kind of nerdy, like when we throw around phrases like “statistical significance” and call it a day. I mean really, truly nerdy. The kind of nerdy that involves using words like “exogeneity,” which is so obscure a term that Microsoft Word tells me it isn’t […]
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