Education
Greene: Charter failure report is bunk
On this popular blog, University of Arkansas education professor Jay Greene takes a new Fordham Institute report to task. Fordham has a new report out that claims to have discovered…
Jay P. Greene
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Education
Real Accountability Is Choice, Not Regulation
In an excellent article published on Jay Greene’s blog, Jason Bedrick, who was just named the national policy director at EdChoice, pushes back on the idea that parental choice is…
Education
Reason Podcast: Nick Gillespie chats with Jay Greene
Interviews with University of Arkansas professor Jay Greene are always worth a listen and With or Without Betsy DeVos, “School Choice Has Achieved Escape Velocity” is a good one.
Liberty
Rare school choice praise, parks and rec costs, Map Act, and more
North Carolina’s public education establishment has offered an ambivalent response — at best — to the growth of school choice since conservatives took control of the General Assembly in 2011…
Education
Low-income children, high performing schools
View in your browser. Welcome Since the release of grades based on the state’s new school performance grade system, the mainstream media and liberal advocacy organizations have focused on the…
Liberty
“why is the inadequately funded school myth so pervasive?”
In this column, JLF’s Terry Stoops discusses the empirical data about the impact of higher per-pupil spending on student outcome, and he asks the question I’ve been wondering for some…
Education
N&O editors get it right on school names
Stop the presses! I agree with the editors of the News & Observer that Wake school names should educate and inspire students. They write, “There have been civic leaders in…
Education
The Common Core debate in NC
Good advice… “Here’s a pro-tip for Checker [Chester E. Finn, Jr.] and Common Core’s deep-pocketed backers… As opposition to Common Core grows in state legislatures and schools around the country,…
Education
School voucher research
View in your browser. Welcome This week’s CommenTerry is an excerpt from my new report, "School Vouchers: From Friedman to the Finish Line." Representatives Jonathan Jordan, Marcus Brandon, Bert Jones,…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Jay Greene: The Imaginary Teacher Shortage
In today’s Wall Street Journal, University of Arkansas professor Jay Greene sets the record straight on claims that the United States needs more teachers. For decades we have tried to…
Education
Reason’s Lisa Snell on GAO special education report
Why the GAO Study on Special Education in Charter Schools Gets It Wrong As the New York Times reports a new GAO study finds that charter schools enroll 3 percent…
Education
What does a quality education cost?
View in your browser. Welcome Recently, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bob Etheridge declared that North Carolina "cannot have quality education on the cheap." Is he right? Bulletin Board This evening NC…