EDUCATION - School Choice - Independence Institute

Liberty Common Shatters ACT Test Record; State TCAPs Less Inspiring 0
- August 15, 2014
Yesterday brought a big data dump from the Colorado Department of Education, and it’s nothing that is going to get the rest of the nation ooh-ing and aah-ing about where we’re headed. When aggregate scores for 3rd to 10th graders in all three subject areas dip half a point, clearly far more is getting measured […]
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BFFs of the Court: Chiming in for Choice in Douglas County 0
- August 12, 2014
Court briefs are terrifying to kids like me. They are long, complicated, and governed by a system of rules in which words like “pagination” and “certiorari” are commonplace. And, in a cruelly ironic twist, they are anything but “brief.” Worse still, they have absolutely no pictures. To be honest, I look at most legal briefs […]
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Adults Say the Darndest Things, Too: Jeffco Anti-Charter Edition 0
- August 1, 2014
One night, not too long ago, when I made one of my off-the-wall education prodigy remarks, my dad just smiled and replied, “Kids say the darndest things.” Apparently, there used to be a TV show by that name — or so my grandpa once told me. The premise was to take advantage of youthful innocence […]
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1000s Embrace Florida K-12 Choice: When Can Colorado Kids Win, Too?0
- July 25, 2014
I hope you haven’t forgotten about helping Colorado Kids Win (including giving the Facebook page a “Like”). After all, it’s been two whole weeks since I’ve reminded you about the benefits of K-12 scholarship tax credits that our state’s kids could really use. And you know that this particular little kid will use almost any […]
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Can’t Get Enough Productivity: Charter Schools Doing More with Less 0
- July 22, 2014
If “productivity” is really a dirty word for education, as some critics would like us to believe, maybe that explains why I feel the overwhelming urge to write about it for the second time in less than a week. A kind of “forbidden fruit” thing, you know. Or maybe the connection just was too easy […]
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School Choice Supply and Demand: Improving Both Sides of the Equation 0
- July 10, 2014
Promoting school choice is a means to an end. Namely? Opportunity for all kids to learn and meet their potential in an educational environment that best suits them, accelerating them toward their maximum academic and social potential. I talk here a lot about school choice, and the power of my parents being able to select […]
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