The greatest trick the Bootlegger ever pulled…
Over at Charter Folks, Jed Wallace weighed in on the recent Rotherham/Pillow/Yours Truly discussion on the state of the charter...
Read More >Who should decide the school mix in Columbus, Ohio?
The 74 recently ran an article titled Fewer Students, Crumbling Buildings: Columbus Looks to Shut Schools Again: Ohio district has...
Read More >Beware the Bootlegger, my son-the mouth that deceives, the claws that rent-seek! The frumious Bootlegger!
Last week we discussed how Baptist and Bootlegger coalitions have taken the wind out of the sails of the charter...
Read More >Postponing the heat death of the charter school universe
Recently Andy Rotherham tweeted and then wrote about the below image. Our own Travis Pillow then noted that both charter...
Read More >Primary elections spur hope deep in the hearts of Texans
Your humble author was enjoying a cigar in his favorite haunt recently, when he encountered a friend, his sister and...
Read More >What do parents want? It’s not hard to decipher
EdChoice retained the polling firm Morning Consult to survey a nationally representative sample of more than 1,500 American parents in...
Read More >Education major ROI shows the colleges of education should RIP
Preston Cooper, an economist, calculated the return on investment by college major for the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity,...
Read More >An Empire State of…bind
The Stanford Educational Opportunity Project has developed a new data tool called the “Segregation Explorer.” Let’s start with the...
Read More >A real Fresh Prince can go to school in Scottsdale but not Bel Air
Imagine the major metro area near you if students were free to attend the fanciest school district in...
Read More >Serfing USA
Medieval serfdom in Europe involved landed aristocrats exploiting serfs who were bound to the land. Aristocrats owned the land and...
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