Raise your hand if you’ver heard this one before: charter schools in North Carolina promote racial segregation. And no matter how many times it’s said, you can count on Washington…
Austin Yack writes at National Review Online that charter schools face new hurdles in one key presidential battleground state. … [T]eachers’ unions and their political supporters remain adamantly opposed to…
I was honored to serve as one of the judges for the 2015 Biasy. Choice Media’s Executive Director Bob Bowdon writes, Choice Media has named a story by Valerie Strauss…
Valerie Strauss of the Washington Post has published a wretched blog at “The Answer Sheet” attacking the left’s favorite punching bag, the Koch brothers. If there was any doubt that the nation’s major…
The Heritage Foundation’s “Insider Online” blog offers an interesting take on N.C. congressman Mark Meadows‘ recent invocation of James Madison in defending the U.S. House’s efforts to rein in profligate…
In “North Carolina superintendent defends Teach For America,” Washington Post education reporter Jay Matthews gives Warren County Superintendent Ray V. Spain the floor to defend Teach for America. Spain concludes,…
View in your browser. Welcome In this week’s CommenTerry, I discuss House Bill 546, a bill that would allow the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) to establish a performance-pay program. Should the…
What does it say about university schools of education when students who have spent a couple years taking classes in them are inferior teachers compared to a group that only…
View in your browser. Welcome New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman argues that the "world is flat," but complains that student performance in the United States is, well, flat. Washington…
Washington Post blogger Valerie Strauss wrote a rather amusing post titled “What Tom Friedman got wrong about schools and why it matters.” It is the “why it matters” part that…