Taking the initiative on school choice in California
California is partisan Democratic by a substantial margin. In October Berkley’s Institute of Government Studies released the results of a...
Read More >Testing, testing
For this observer, the most puzzling aspect of the school choice debate has been the constant focus of my old...
Read More >The ode to 'government schools'
Editor's note: A series of attacks tying school choice to segregation has prompted rebuttals from conservative and libertarian writers. Here,...
Read More >The Compulsory Government Union
The National Education Association, the American Federation of Teachers and local allies such as the California Teachers Association are unions...
Read More >Testing Choice
I get The New York Times. Each morning, it identifies the world's battlegrounds — military and ideological, political and economic. I discount and...
Read More >School: Such a Trip!
Expanding school choice could spur innovative options for the children of farm workers - perhaps mobile options that would allow students to learn as they travel.
Read More >Left of what?
From another place I take my name. — Edmund Spenser The movement for school choice is principally a work of...
Read More >The complex simplicity of choice
The apparent simplicity of Milton Friedman’s free market model of parental choice is truly appealing. Let the parent decide. Here’s...
Read More >Home, sweet school
Jeanne is a young but retired teacher of reading and writing in public schools; she has a working husband, boys,...
Read More >On teaching human equality
All animals are created equal, but some animals are more equal than others. – George Orwell, Animal Farm All...
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