Does school choice need bipartisan support?
Jay Greene and James D. Paul gathered data for a new study for the American Enterprise Institute released Sept. 22...
Read More >America’s school buses slide into a ditch
The American system of schooling – tax everyone, herd families by ZIP code, regulatory capture elections – has a lot...
Read More >A random group of Americans is an exceptional group of people
Twenty years ago, terrorists chose a random group of Americans, on a routine flight, to be collateral damage in a...
Read More >A Labor Day meditation on American education unions
It’s only a matter of time before anyone following the parental empowerment in education choice debate will come across the...
Read More >The gradual and the sudden
This week, redefinED will become reimaginED, arriving chorus-like to document the efforts of educators and families to reshape public education...
Read More >The unfinished school system
John Darwin’s book The Unfinished Empire describes the British Empire as “unfinished,” in large part because the Britons never agreed...
Read More >Under the staircase, Part 2
In an earlier post, I explained why districts don’t tend to replicate or expand high-demand schools. In a word, the...
Read More >The warmth of Florida (and Arizona) suns
Allan Jacob, a North Miami Beach nephrologist and chairman and CEO of Physicians Dialysis, wrote last week for the Wall...
Read More >Choice vs. suburban opportunity hoarding
A few years ago, the Thomas B. Fordham Institute documented that the vast majority of Ohio suburban districts did not...
Read More >Can K-12 learn from the Defense Base Realignment and Closure Act of 1990?
At the end of the Second World War, the United States found itself a global hegemon. Packed full of geographic...
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