What We’re Watching: WSJ on Romney’s Pro-Choice Education Plan
Mitt Romney’s education reform platform is discussed by the Wall Street Journal’s David Feith.
The Romney Education Plan: Replacing Federal Overreach on Accountability with Federal Overreach on School Choice
A better idea might be to take a page from the Obama Administration handbook and make funding portability voluntary.
Tax Credit Scholarships Need a Critical, Not Hostile, Eye
It’s hard to get past the New York Times’s animus toward anything “private” or profit-seeking in the realm of K-12 education.
Charter Benefits Are Proven by the Best Evidence
Supporters of charter schools have four gold-standard randomized control trials on their side. Opponents of charter schools have no equally rigorous evidence on their side.
What We’re Watching: Another Solution to Crime
David Deming talks with the Wall Street Journal about how school choice programs in North Carolina have reduced criminality among high risk males.
Behind the Headline: Stop Burning NY’s Special Ed Dollars
On Top of the News Stop Burning NY’s Special Ed Dollars New York Post | 2/1/12 Behind the Headline The Case for Special EducationVouchers Education Next | Winter 2010 Former State Assemblyman Michael Benjamin makes the case for special ed vouchers in New York City in an op-ed appearing in today’s Post. Jay Greene and [...]
Expanding Choice in Elementary and Secondary Education
An upcoming Brookings Institution report — “Expanding Choice in Elementary and Secondary Education” — will make interesting reading. The preview for a release event says that the report will discuss “how to expand school choice to increase equity and create a market within the public sector for school quality.” Given the expertise and background of the panelists who will present next week, how they define equity, the public sector, and school quality will be quite significant.
Straddling the Democratic Divide
Will reforms follow Obama's spending on education?
Will reforms follow Obama’s spending on education?
Brighter Choices in Albany
City's charter schools outshine the competition.
Reformers in New York’s capital have brought high-quality charter schools to scale, giving hope to a generation of disadvantaged kids.
Lost Opportunities
Lawmakers threaten D.C. scholarships despite evidence of benefits
Lawmakers threaten D.C. scholarships despite evidence of benefits
Poor Schools or Poor Kids?
To some, fixing education means taking on poverty and health care
To some, fixing education means taking on poverty and health care
The Case for Special Education Vouchers
Parents should decide when their disabled child needs a private placement
Parents should decide when their disabled child needs a private placement
Accountability Overboard
Massachusetts poised to toss out the nation's most successful reforms
Massachusetts poised to toss out the nation’s most successful reforms
Florida’s Online Option
Virtual school offers template for reform
Virtual school offers template for reform
Another Lemon
Florida’s public school establishment could hardly have a better friend than Florida’s courts.
Florida’s charters under attack
School Choice International
Higher private school share boosts national test scores
Higher private school share boosts national test scores
Vouchers in New York, Dayton, and D.C.
Vouchers and the Test-Score Gap
Vouchers and the Test-Score Gap
A Work in Progress
After five years, school choice is beginning to have visible effects in Michigan’s education system.
After five years, school choice is beginning to have visible effects in Michigan’s education system.
The Neutrality Principle
Can states prohibit vouchers for religious schooling?
Joshua Davey was once intent on becoming a minister, a plan that cost him his publicly funded scholarship to Northwest College. Now the plaintiff in a high-profile case before the Supreme Court, Davey decided to attend Harvard Law School upon graduating from Northwest. The law regarding vouchers is in the midst of fundamental change. About [...]
Competition Passes the Test
Vouchers improve public schools in Florida
Vouchers improve public schools in Florida
