Arizona’s new foster voucher program could be a promising model that state policymakers could use to help more of the 500,000 foster children in America. But we may never learn how scholarships could help at-risk foster children if the ACLU and the People for the American Way succeed in their efforts to block the program before it begins.
Read more »Education is much more important than cars, and we have put up with “all-black Model T” schools for far too long. It’s high time we exposed schools to the dynamic forces of competition and found out what the educational equivalent of a BMW is.
Read more »The intellectual debate about school choice and the public school monopoly is now over.
Read more »When it comes to funding K-12 mathematics education, the NSF should drastically change course, or get out of the business altogether.
Read more »Is it possible that too many prospective teachers are flooding the labor market--and that special needs dollars will bridge the gap?
The Catholic parochial school--a longstanding educational option for many children in urban areas--is fading fast.
Read more »Is there a way to return control over education to states and localities without sacrificing federal funding?
Millions of dollars from the U.S. Department of Education and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have and are being given out to help growing numbers of urban and suburban students attend small schools, or small schools within schools. Why?
Read more »In school reform, the chasm between establishment advice and what the data show keeps on growing.
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