Reforming Education in Arkansas: Recommendations from the Koret Task Force
Chester E. Finn, Jr.Hoover Institution 2005
The Answer Key: How to Plan, Develop and Finance Your Charter School Facility
Eric OsbergNCB Development Corporation2005
Comprehensive School Reform Quality Center Report on Elementary School Comprehensive School Reform Models
American Institutes for ResearchNovember 2005
The problem with politics
Everyone knows that the Kansas Board of Education, to the dismay of the scientific community, recently voted to adopt new science standards that attack evolution, validate intelligent design, and re-define science itself. The real mystery is why they did it. Scott Canon, writing in the Kansas City Star, thinks he knows: Politics.
Dispatch from Soft America
Enterprising journalist Scott Reeder has proven what critics of K-12 teacher tenure have long surmised: it's nearly impossible to fire a tenured teacher. He collected every instance of disciplinary action, which no doubt includes everything from moral turpitude to ineffectiveness in the classroom, taken against a tenured teacher in Illinois's 876 districts over the past 18 years.
Eat pea pod, get iPod
The New York City schools are converting junk-food-loving children one soybean at a time. Jorge Leon Collazo, executive chef of SchoolFood, which provides 860,000 breakfasts and lunches per day to Big Apple public school students, has introduced nutritious, flavorful options into the district's cafeterias. But the transition hasn't been a bowl of cherries.
Every school a charter school?
An effort is gaining steam in California to grant charter status to all ten of Grossmont Union High School District's schools.
What if competition doesn't work?
Michael J. PetrilliTen years ago, many school choice and charter school advocates (including yours truly) pointed to the American automobile industry as a powerful example of the free market's ability to transform unwieldy bureaucracies. The "Big 3" Detroit automakers had grown complacent. By the early 1980s, their quality was low and costs (and prices) were high.