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Public schools are accountable. It’s a claim often repeated by lawmakers, teachers, administrators, and education activists. But are they? What does it mean to be accountable? Despite an apparatus of…
Introduction Just a few years ago, the idea that students could receive personalized tutoring and homework help via artificial intelligence would have seemed like something out of a science fiction…
Is North Carolina prepared to accommodate rising demand for private educational options and increased participation in the state’s school choice programs? A new report from the John Locke Foundation seeks to answer…
Joy Pullmann of the Federalist highlights disturbing news about American public school enrollment. A few simple calculations indicate that as much as one-quarter of U.S. public school enrollment could be…
Ryan Walters writes for the Washington Examiner about the importance of getting education policy right. The fact of the matter is that government-controlled, top-down, one-size-fits-all education systems just aren’t working…
Inter- and intra-district open-enrollment policies let parents choose a traditional public school other than the one to which their child has been assigned. Unlike most other states, North Carolina has…
At the recent State Board of Education meeting, Gov. Roy Cooper called for a moratorium on expanding the Opportunity Scholarship Program. Cooper’s claims about vouchers harming public schools financially and…
North Carolina scores low marks when it comes to fostering a welcoming regulatory environment for educational innovators and entrepreneurs, according to the Education Entrepreneur Freedom Index. The goal of the…
John Bailey writes for Education Next about the likely impact of artificial intelligence on education. Over the last year, developers have released a dizzying array of AI tools that can…
Opponents of school choice claim that private schools are unaccountable because they don’t have to satisfy every testing mandate required of traditional public schools, yet private schools are subject to…
It’s time to celebrate National School Choice Week (NSCW). As usual, North Carolina has numerous events to commemorate a parents’ right to choose the best educational option for their children;…
How do voucher programs impact district achievement, segregation, or district per pupil expenditures? These are questions that have dogged voucher programs for a long, long time. Yesterday the Thomas B.…