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September 5, 2008
If public charter schools are really so bad, then why are tens of thousands of Texas students standing in line for admission?
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August 29, 2008
NEA President Reg Weaver commits "the 3.2 million members of the National Education Association [to be] organized, energized and mobilized to help elect Barack Obama."
On behalf of the NEA's one million Republican members, Larry Sand strenuously objects.
Read more »August 20, 2008
American students are flunking out internationally. Meanwhile, as education scholar and former Microsoft engineer Andrew Coulsen has observed, one of the last great innovations in American education happened around 1801 during the presidency of Thomas Jefferson: the invention of the chalkboard. Therein lies the problem.
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June 30, 2008
The case has been frequently (and justly) made that the unions are anti-student because of their adamant positions on school choice, charter schools and teacher tenure. However, I contend that the unions are not only anti-student, they are all too often anti-teacher.
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June 18, 2008
"Families That Can," the first-ever statewide advocacy organization for charter school families, has taken on LAUSD for its disparate treatment of their children. Instead of balancing the budget on the backs of charter-school students, California politicians should back up parents' educational choices. Enforcing the law would be a good place to start.
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May 27, 2008
Elected officials are now fighting back against powerful opponents of parental choice in education. If lawmakers keep up the fight, schoolchildren will benefit and California may yet restore its status as a national leader.
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May 22, 2008
There are more than 12,000 families on waiting lists to enroll their children in one of Chicago’s charter schools, and in a recent poll, 25 percent of Illinois families specifically listed charter schools as their first choice in education.... Unfortunately, charter schools face an arbitrary glass ceiling and will be unable to reach new heights unless state law is changed.
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April 21, 2008
More than his race, background or any physical feature, Governor Paterson stands out nationally as a liberal African-American Democrat who strongly supports the rights of parents to choose the best school for their children.
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April 11, 2008
Bleak socioeconomic forces - substantial disparities in reading and math skills and widening wage gaps - can only be addressed when families have public school choices with options that work "one student at a time."
Read more »April 7, 2008
Andrew Coulson lays out full school choice as an educationally and fiscally compelling option for DC's public school students - who are currently being undereducated by the dysfunctional district system to the tune of $24,600/pupil.
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