A digression on the test obsession
Measuring a child’s mastery of material taught in school is plainly reasonable, often necessary. To a point the same may...
Read More >Jack Coons: The needy need charters
The New York Times recently managed yet another article discrediting charter schools, this one asserting they have lost their luster....
Read More >Time for faith-based charter schools
The teachers unions have discovered that charter schools are enemies of the good society. Bernie Sanders is with them, warning...
Read More >‘Public’ schools?
A recent article in the New York Times described, and in general, approved a particular system of education choice for...
Read More >The true unbeliever
Belief has never, for me, been a matter of choice. A natural universe entails a transcendent (if misty) creator. Even...
Read More >Of school choice and human dignity
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. -Emerson, intellect Picking the school that will teach one’s...
Read More >A voice – and a song – for choice
School choice is an idea that, without offense to its opponents, one could call “happy.”
Read More >Commentary: Of rights and powers: state and parent
Law uses the term “right(s)” in various ways; in its most common version, the concept includes a sub-species called “power(s),”...
Read More >Teachers unions: Must they be preserved?
There is nothing to prevent teachers unions starting their own charter schools. Indeed, here and there, a few have done...
Read More >Coons: More than money
Public school parents in Rhode Island have asked a federal court to declare that the state’s very spotty provision of...
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