After School Choice Week, How About Educate the Reporters Week?
- January 28, 2015
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Dishing Up a Little Friday Irony, American Federation of Teachers-Style0
- April 19, 2013
It’s a busy Friday at the end of a sad and difficult week. So I’m happy just to follow Mike Antonucci’s witty lead. Today on his Intercepts blog he pointed out some true “Hedge Fund Hilarity” in a Wall St. Journal column about national teachers union president Randi Weingarten “trying to strong-arm pension trustees not […]
READ MOREOf Broken Records or Repeating MP3 Files: Colorado Remediation Rate Still Too High0
- April 18, 2013
I was going to say that sometimes my blog can sound like a broken record, but I’m too young to know what a record even is. So how about, please forgive me in advance if this post sounds like an MP3 file on a repeat loop. (Someone else can figure out how to smooth out […]
READ MORELatest Research Builds Winning Record for School Choice: Still Waiting for DougCo0
- April 17, 2013
Gold-standard research on the positive impacts of school choice keeps rolling in. The latest work by Matthew Chingos and Paul Peterson measures the results for New York City students who received modest privately-funded vouchers to attend private schools. The study directly compared how many voucher students successfully completed high school and enrolled in college compared […]
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Hey, Colorado: Billion Dollar K-12 Tax Hike OR End the Education Plantation?0
- April 15, 2013
Often it’s very easy to get bogged down in a big education policy debate like Colorado’s SB 213 school finance reform proposal. Then along comes a Denver Post op-ed piece by a motivated citizen that exhales a breath of fresh air: Colorado currently spends about $10,600 per student per year on K-12 education. You can […]
READ MOREScholarship Tax Credits Could Help Denver, Aurora HS Students Overcome Challenges0
- April 12, 2013
For those who long have rolled up their sleeves to try to improve student learning, the cause of urban high school reform remains one of the most daunting tasks. Even in areas where the most concentrated and sustained efforts at reform have taken place, the promising results have been very limited. Enter a brand new […]
READ MOREAdams 12 School Board Steps into the Light, Calls Union Leaders’ Bluff0
- April 12, 2013
In response to the Adams 12 school board asking all employees to share a little more in paying for their pension contributions, teachers union leaders have organized protests and worked with a local TV news reporter to trump up phony, easily debunked charges. To help clear the air the board has asked to open bargaining negotiations to public view, but union leaders say they aren’t interested.
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