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Fight Club

Are advocacy organizations changing the politics of education?

By Patrick McGuinn Features, Homepage, Journal, School Spending

Spring Break Is Here: Can I get my unemployement insurance check?

Did you know that school bus drivers and cafeteria workers file unemployment claims whenever schools take a vacation break?

By Paul E. Peterson Blog, School Spending

Stretching the School-District Dollar

Rather than hope for revenue increases that are unlikely to materialize, smart leaders can turn the present budget crisis into an opportunity. Rethinking whom we hire, what they do, how we pay them, and how to incorporate technology—that’s where the big payoff is

By Michael Petrilli Blog, School Spending

Misplaced Optimism and Weighted Funding

Liberals and conservatives alike have made “weighted student funding” a core idea of their reform prescriptions. Both groups see such weighted funding as providing more dollars to the specific schools they tend to focus upon, and both see it as inspiring improved achievement through newfound political pressures. Unfortunately, both groups are very likely wrong.

By Eric A. Hanushek Blog, Editorial, School Spending

Let the Dollars Follow the Child

How the federal government can achieve equity

By Grover J. "Russ" Whitehurst Features, Homepage, Journal, School Spending

Fixing Teacher Pensions

Is it enough to adjust existing plans?

By Robert M. Costrell, Michael Podgursky and Christian Weller Forum, Homepage, Journal, School Spending, Teachers and Teaching

The New Worst Way to Deal with Budget Problems

Of all of the options, reducing the length of the school year must be the absolute worst – at least from the perspective of students. But California, always proud of being a leader, has written into law that this is the preferred option if districts face budgetary shortfalls.

By Eric A. Hanushek Blog, Editorial, School Spending

Why the GOP Budget Plan Might Be Good for Education

Before you reflexively deride this week’s GOP budget proposal consider this: it just might pave the way for greater investments in our schools.

By Michael Petrilli Blog, Editorial, School Spending

School Funding: Do We Have to be as Poor as Our Neighbor?

In a provocative new school funding case, a federal court judge in Kansas City ruled against parents from the suburban Shawnee Mission school district who had wanted to increase property taxes above the state mandated limit. This is a local control debate that is sure to heat up as we stumble through the current financial crisis.

By Peter Meyer Blog, Courts and Law, Editorial, School Spending

Does Whole-School Performance Pay Improve Student Learning?

Evidence from the New York City schools

By Sarena Goodman and Lesley Turner Journal, On Top of the News, Research, School Spending

Toothless Reform?

If the feds get tough, Race to the Top might work

By Andy Smarick Features, Governance and Leadership, On Top of the News, School Spending, State and Federal

Fueling the Engine

Smarter, better ways to fund education innovators

By Frederick Hess Features, Homepage, Journal, On Top of the News, School Spending

Straddling the Democratic Divide

Will reforms follow Obama's spending on education?

Will reforms follow Obama’s spending on education?

By Richard Colvin Charter Schools and Vouchers, Features, Government and Politics, No Child Left Behind, On Top of the News, School Choice, School Spending, Standards, Testing, and Accountability

No Recession for Schools

The Winter 2010 issue of Education Next is just hitting newsstands (and subscribers’ mailboxes). Paul Peterson visits the sunny side of recessions in “A Recession for Schools: Not as bad as it sounds,” his “Letter from the Editors” for the new issue. “Recessions cause lots of harm, but they also eliminate bloat, fat, even fraud,” [...]

By Education Next Blog, School Spending

A Recession for Schools

Not as bad as it sounds

By Paul E. Peterson Briefs, From the Editor, Governance and Leadership, On Top of the News, School Spending

Lost Opportunities

Lawmakers threaten D.C. scholarships despite evidence of benefits

By Patrick J. Wolf Charter Schools and Vouchers, Governance and Leadership, Public Opinion, Research, School Choice, School Spending, State and Federal

Teacher Retirement Benefits

Even in economically tough times, costs are higher than ever.

By Robert M. Costrell and Michael Podgursky On Top of the News, Research, School Spending, Teachers and Teaching, Unions and Collective Bargaining

Poor Schools or Poor Kids?

To some, fixing education means taking on poverty and health care

By Joe Williams and Pedro Noguera Charter Schools and Vouchers, Forum, Governance and Leadership, Homepage, Inside Schools, No Child Left Behind, On Top of the News, School Choice, School Spending, Standards, Testing, and Accountability, State and Federal, Teachers and Teaching, Unions and Collective Bargaining

Many Schools Are Still Inadequate, Now What?

Is court involvement in school spending essential to reform, or can we use education funding to drive reforms that promise better outcomes for students?

By Michael Rebell, Alfred Lindseth, and Eric A. Hanushek Forum, No Child Left Behind, On Top of the News, School Spending, Standards, Testing, and Accountability

Fraud in the Lunchroom?

Federal school-lunch program may not be a reliable measure of poverty

By David N. Bass Check the Facts, Governance and Leadership, On Top of the News, School Spending, State and Federal

Accountability Overboard

Massachusetts poised to toss out the nation's most successful reforms

Massachusetts poised to toss out the nation’s most successful reforms

By Charles D. Chieppo and James T. Gass Charter Schools and Vouchers, Features, Governance and Leadership, School Choice, School Spending, Standards, Testing, and Accountability

“The Cartel” in New Jersey

New Jersey is #1 in spending per public school student. Where does the money go, and why so much? The answers may be found in some of the bizarre and dismaying facts and stories recounted in a new education documentary entitled “The Cartel”.

By Mark Bauerlein Blog, Editorial, School Spending