Let the Dollars Follow the Child
How the federal government can achieve equity
How the federal government can achieve equity
Fixing Teacher Pensions
Is it enough to adjust existing plans?
Is it enough to adjust existing plans?
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.
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.
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.
Does Whole-School Performance Pay Improve Student Learning?
Evidence from the New York City schools
Evidence from the New York City schools
Toothless Reform?
If the feds get tough, Race to the Top might work
If the feds get tough, Race to the Top might work
Fueling the Engine
Smarter, better ways to fund education innovators
Smarter, better ways to fund education innovators
Straddling the Democratic Divide
Will reforms follow Obama's spending on education?
Will reforms follow Obama’s spending on education?
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,” [...]
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
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?
Fraud in the Lunchroom?
Federal school-lunch program may not be a reliable measure of poverty
Federal school-lunch program may not be a reliable measure of poverty
Accountability Overboard
Massachusetts poised to toss out the nation's most successful reforms
Massachusetts poised to toss out the nation’s most successful reforms
“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”.
Golden Handcuffs
Teachers who change jobs or move pay a high price
Teachers who change jobs or move pay a high price
The Phony Funding Crisis
Even in the worst of times, schools have money to spend
Even in the worst of times, schools have money to spend
Florida’s Online Option
Virtual school offers template for reform
Virtual school offers template for reform
Making Mountains Out of Molehills? Let the Reader Decide
A recent “Policy Memorandum” from the Economic Policy Institute by EPI researcher Monique Morrissey is sharply critical of our article “Peaks, Cliffs, and Valleys.” Morrissey has a number of critiques of our articles, but the main one, as the title suggests, is that our metaphors are inappropriate, and there is nothing at all “peculiar” about the structure of retirement incentives in teacher pensions.
A Little Context Needed for Complaints about School Revenue Shortfalls
The general public is woefully uninformed as to how much is spent on K-12 public education and, by extension, how much that spending has grown. Why would this be the case? No mystery, really.
The Preschool Picture
Focus funds on kids in need
Universal preschool will be a boon for middle-class parents. How it will help poor kids catch up is not so obvious.
May 2009 Rally for DC Voucher Program
Photos: Images from the May 2009 rally for the DC Voucher Program held in Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC.
