The rationale for choice and the greater good
The Sunday New York Times featured a front page story on the rise of charter schools in the suburbs and quoted one charter...
Read More >Standing on the wrong side of empowerment
In a Wall Street Journal column today on the controversy surrounding the NAACP joining the New York City teachers union...
Read More >A misplaced faith in top-down decision-making
David Brooks focuses again on health care in today’s New York Times, and his observations have huge implications for public education. Here...
Read More >As owners become workers, alliances shift
A Monday New York Times story headlined, “As Physicians’ Jobs Change, So Do Their Politics,” suggested that as doctors increasingly...
Read More >An international guidebook to a postindustrial-era American education
While the following quote from David Brooks' most recent New York Times column was focused on changes occurring in Britain,...
Read More >Unions and entrepreneurs -- finding common ground leads to freedom for each
Writing in the newest edition of The Washington Monthly, Barry C. Lynn says unions need to find common ground with...
Read More >A lost opportunity, and friendship, at FEA
For the second time in three years, the top African-American official in the Florida Education Association has been pushed out...
Read More >Where ed reformers should focus
The most interesting comment I heard at this week’s American Federation for Children conference in Washington, D.C., came from Ed...
Read More >Let who we empower define public education
Last Friday, I participated in a panel discussion in South Florida on the challenges facing public school administrators, and I...
Read More >Two approaches to ed reform, but one may do little to reform
Two divergent approaches to education reform are operating in public education today. Both are focused on improving the effectiveness and...
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