Bias against for-profit education providers is off the mark
Ben Austin of Parent Revolution and Rick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute have been engaging in a civil dialogue...
Read More >Wishing for a progressive teacher union
My holiday wish is for teacher unions to expand their business model to include all public education teachers, and not...
Read More >A better definition of public education, a better debate about what we want from it
In a recent post, I argued that because customized teaching and learning have so blurred the lines between public, private...
Read More >A better way to define “public education”
For the last 150 years, we have assumed “public education” meant publicly funded education, but in this new age of...
Read More >"Vouchers," faith-based schools expand opportunities for low-income kids
Editor's note: This op-ed ran in today's Orlando Sentinel. Florida allocates five different scholarships from prekindergarten to college that allow...
Read More >George McGovern & the Democratic shift on school choice
None of the recent obituaries of George McGovern - the former U.S. senator and Democratic presidential candidate who died Oct....
Read More >Teachers unions are private corporations too
A Miami Herald story this week about the political contributions of teachers unions and for-profit education companies in Florida offers...
Read More >It's school boards that are furthering the privatization of public education
Public education is implemented by private entities - textbook publishers, teachers, building contractors, software developers, teachers unions, parents - with...
Read More >Both Democrats and Republicans have switched on school choice
Long-time Democratic education activist Jack Jennings, in a recent Huffington Post column, argued that Republican support for private school choice...
Read More >Imagine an Arab Spring in public education
After spending time at the Republican convention in Tampa and the Democratic convention in Charlotte, I needed to decompress, so...
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