Why don’t district teachers benefit from increases in district spending?
Recently, because this is the sort of thing your friendly neighborhood school choice mad scientist likes to do, I...
Read More >Take a great law and make it better
Oklahoma lawmakers created the most robust K-12 personal use tax credit in American history last year. It occurred to your...
Read More >'One headline, why believe it?'
Kate Payne of the Associated Press wrote a piece about the Madison County School District, a small rural area...
Read More >American education shortchanges our dudes
Steve Malanga writing in City Journal recently made a rather chilling and well-documented case that a growing number of...
Read More >Yesterday 'accountability' might have stood against the world
“School accountability is gone, fallen into a ditch, without so much as a shovel of dirt to give it a...
Read More >Living up to the legacy of Milton Friedman
Norse mythology included the concept of Valhalla. Valkyries flew down to earthly battlefields on winged horses to transport the worthy...
Read More >Where Florida leads…
Years ago, I was getting what remained of my hair cut in Prescott, Arizona. My barber was telling me about...
Read More >Reports of the death of public education have been greatly exaggerated
Rarely does a day go by in which your author does not come across yet another would-be Cassandra...
Read More >'Chances from which neither of us are exempt'
The magisterial "History of the Peloponnesian War" relates the calamity of conflict between the Greek city states of Athens and...
Read More >The revenge of the rubber room
An education reform era policy ended recently as New York lawmakers repealed a law that attempted to remove ineffective...
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