Linking Education Funding to Results
A new education funding law in Colorado aligns education spending with achievements. The result of this new law is that taxpayers are only responsible for repaying the costs of initiatives that produce...
View ArticleWhy Your State Should Copy Nevada’s School Choice Plan
By Lance Izumi With new research showing widespread underperformance among middle class students in states across the country, Nevada’s recently enacted nearly universal education savings account (ESA)...
View ArticleHow Some Community Colleges Are Improving Student Performance
Approximately 40% of college freshmen must take remedial courses for which they do not receive credit. Too often they do little better in these English and math courses than they did in high school. Of...
View ArticleYoung Children Need More Play Time, Not Class Time
In American schools, young children are being pushed into more structured, teacher-directed class time. Play-based kindergartens and now even preschools, have been replaced largely by drilling and...
View ArticleLouisiana’s Recovery School District is Still a Work in Progress
New Orleans education reform efforts really began right after Hurricane Katrina hit the city. The whole school system converted to a system of public charter schools, with a focus on giving the schools...
View ArticleAnother Lesson in Political Accountability: It’s Mostly an Oxymoron
Hope often triumphs over experience because change is difficult. So, we imagine that changing key officeholders, or some policy tweak, will suddenly make something happen that has been rare or unheard...
View ArticleThe Beat Goes On: The Latest NAEP Scores Disappoint but Don’t Surprise
We haven’t addressed the roots of the current system’s performance deficit, and yet hope triumphs over experience that changes in funding, or changes in personnel in positions of authority, will yield...
View ArticlePerspective on the NAEP Score Trend Perspective
Edexcellence’s Michael Petrilli reacted to the NAEP score decline with an article entitled, “Heartbreak on NAEP.” Based on the trend described by his Fordham colleague, Chad Aldeman, that “Over the...
View ArticleNo Child Left Behind, now Every Child Succeeds Act, Lacks Accountability
With bipartisan support in Congress and President Obama’s blessing, the latest version of No Child Left behind, called Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), is here. While it returns some power to the...
View ArticleStudent Achievement Gains Are Still Unrelated to Increased Education Spending
There is no correlation between education spending and changes in student achievement over the past quarter century. The Colman Report, titled “Equality of Educational Opportunity” and mandated by the...
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