2002 United States education reform law; repealed 2015
Teacher pay has been much in the news lately. Thousands of North Carolina teachers are supposed to descend on Raleigh next Friday to protest no state budget and lobby for…
Introduction The United States Constitution does not mention education. From our nation’s infancy, Congress generally adhered to the principle that the federal government had no authority to undertake functions and…
Jeremy Adams writes for the Federalist about one downside of smartphones. It turns out that even “elite college students” can’t muster the cerebral capacity and mental acuity to read books.…
Frederick Hess and Michael McShane assess current opportunities for conservative education reform. Since the Reagan era, the right’s education reformers have repeatedly fallen victim to the siren songs of compromise,…
About a decade ago few topics generated more heat than Common Core Standards. The standards, developed by an obscure group of state education officers and embraced by the Obama Administration…
The OECD administers the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) tests to 15-year-old students from around the world, and results from the 2018 tests were released today. The United States is…
I have been trying to learn about equity in education recently. The always-reliable Wikipedia says, Educational equity depends on two main factors. The first is fairness, which implies that factors specific…
Neal McCluskey writes for the libertarian Cato Institute about the potential danger of increasing the federal government’s role in school choice. He focuses on the $5 billion scholarship program proposed…
Frederick Hess and Cody Christensen explain at National Review Online why observers should approach performance-based higher education funding models with skepticism. Currently, 32 states allocate a portion of their higher-education…
North Carolina’s U.S. senators have joined a group focusing attention on the nation’s public charter schools. The news release below offers details. WASHINGTON, May 8, 2018 — United States Senators…
Christopher Beach writes at RealClearEducation about a refreshing approach from U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. State lawmakers around the country are pushing bold and ambitious education reform plans and Education…
In their NBER Working Paper, “Does Choice Increase Information? Evidence from Online School Search Behavior,” Michael F. Lovenheim and Patrick Walsh find that that parents collect more information about schools…