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What’s Next in Education: Common Ground or Battle Ground?
Are the right and the left coming together on education policy? President Obama’s budget address is encouraging, if ambiguous. Looking elsewhere, one also finds mixed signals. Consider the two reports that came out last week, one on charter school segregation by a UCLA group headed by Professor Gary Orfield, the other a Brookings report headed by Grover Whitehurst, the widely respected former head of the Institute of Education Sciences.
Yes, We Have No Bananas
In a recent Education Next article we talked about winners and losers in teacher pension systems, and about the huge costs these systems impose on mobile teachers due to the back-loading of benefits. In a letter to the editor written in response to our article, Beth Almeida of the National Institute on Retirement Security takes us to task for describing this phenomenon as “redistribution,” noting that such a practice is illegal. Since we don’t want to get pension and teacher union officials in trouble, we have a modest proposal.
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The Obama administration would like to ban candy and soda from school vending machines and require schools to offer more nutritious options. In an article that appeared in Ed Next in 2005, Ron Haskins looked at the history of the federal school lunch program and considered whether the program could be used to fight obesity.
Harvard Professor Advocates Virtual, Physical School Mix
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During an event hosted by the University of Arkansas' Department of Education Reform, Ed Next editor-in-chief Paul E. Peterson advocated for allowing students to enroll in a virtual school at the same time they are enrolled in a physical school. While Arkansas offers online learning through the Arkansas Virtual High School, students may only enroll in one school at a time. During his lecture Peterson specifically cited the Florida Virtual School, which was profiled by Bill Tucker in the Summer 2009 issue of Ed Next.
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People will criticize any education directives from Washington as a violation of states rights in one breath, then insist that Washington require fundamental reforms in order for states to be given money in the next breath.
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