We Know the Answer, But What Is the Question?
We cannot paper over the fact that a large number of other countries have shown that it is possible to develop considerably higher skills in their youth than we are doing
The Rising Cost of Teachers’ Health Care
Private-sector employers pay much less
Insurance costs for teachers are 26 percent higher than they are for private-sector professionals
Reform Agenda Gains Strength
The 2012 EdNext-PEPG survey finds Hispanics give schools higher grade than others do
The 2012 EdNext-PEPG survey finds Hispanics give schools a higher grade than others do
The Edu-Capture of NCLB
Is it right to set lower standards of academic performance for students from minority groups?
How the Common Core Changes Everything
Implementation, done right, must be comprehensive. Which means what?
Critique of Study of Voucher Impact on College Enrollment Misguided
Several of the issues raised by Goldrick-Rab have no merit and none undermine the primary conclusion of our study.
Catholic v. Charters: Where’s the God Gene?
A couple of reports last week reanimated the debate about what to do with Catholic schools, which have been hemorrhaging students for the last couple of decades.
Flap in Virginia Shows Reformers’ Fealty to Ideology over Implementation
No Child Left Behind’s aspirational aims were more effective as rhetoric than as an accountability regime.
What We’re Watching: Vouchers and Social Justice
Paul Peterson sits down with the WSJ to discuss a new study on how vouchers help African American students.
Is the U.S. Catching Up?
International and state trends in student achievement
International and state trends in student achievement
Florida Defeats the Skeptics
Test scores show genuine progress in the Sunshine State
Test scores show genuine progress in the Sunshine State
Behind the Headline: Private School Vouchers to Go to about 300 D.C. Students
On Top of the News Private School Vouchers to Go to about 300 D.C. Students Washington Post| August 5, 2012 Behind the Headline How Vouchers Came to D.C. Education Next | Fall 2004 Nearly three hundred new students have been awarded vouchers in D.C. as part of a controversial federally-funded program. As Emma Brown notes [...]
What We’re Watching: Does it Matter That the U.S. is Not Catching Up?
Paul Peterson and Eric Hanushek discuss their new report, which finds that the gains made by students in the U. S. are only middling compared to the gains being made by students in other countries.
Public Schools and Money
Strategies for improving productivity in times of austerity
Strategies for improving productivity in times of austerity
The Case for Public-School Choice in the Suburbs
Should parents in well-off suburban school districts be able to choose between schools that offer different approaches to learning?
Do We Need National Standards to Prevent a Race to the Bottom?
If a race to the bottom is fueled by the desire to satisfy federal bureaucratic rules, why would we think the solution is in the adoption of more federal bureaucratic rules?
EdNext Readers Poll: Funding for Online Learning
When students decide to take a course online, should all the state funding for the course go to the organization that offers the course, or should some funding also go to local school districts to help defray other school costs?
What We’re Watching: Reform School from ChoiceMedia.TV
Jay Greene and Joe Williams talk charter schools and the federal role in education in this pilot episode of “Reform School.”
What We’re Watching: Teacher of the Year Gets Laid Off
Sacramento’s teacher of the year just lost her job as result of budget cuts in a district that mandates layoffs according to seniority, not performance.
Arne Scorns Iowa: Political Courage or Political Suicide?
I was amazed, befuddled, dumbstruck, bemused (choose your own adjective) to learn that Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has rejected a request from Iowa for flexibility under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
Disruptive Innovation and Independent Public Schools
Independent public schools of choice could turn out to be as disruptive to traditional education systems as those crummy little Sony radios turned out to be to the vacuum-tube behemoths and as Honda was to Detroit.
‘Vouchers Unspoken,’ Predictable—But Unproductive
Whatever its other virtues or defects, Romney’s plan should be debated on the basis of what it actually proposes—and not a politically-colored version thereof.
Behind the Headline: Integrating a School, One Child at a Time
On Top of the News Integrating a School, One Child at a Time New York Times| June 17, 2012 Behind the Headline Is Desegregation Dead? Education Next | Fall 2010 In an article that appeared in Sunday’s New York Times, Liz Robbins looks at what’s happening in four Brooklyn elementary schools that won a federal [...]
International Benchmarking of Student Achievement
Most educational standard setting, performance assessment, and judgments about appropriate levels of achievement today are based on history and custom with a little bit of “professional dreaming.” The process generally lacks any context of what our international competitors are doing.
Could We Depoliticize School Choice?
As a long-time student of school choice (and, full disclosure, an adviser to Romney’s education team) I anticipate the governor is in for a bit of moral outrage.
