School Vouchers: Publicly Funded Programs in Cleveland and Milwaukee
The United States General Accounting Office, August 31, 2001
The United States General Accounting Office, August 31, 2001
Kevin J. Sullivan, Alliance for Excellent Education, September 2001
National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, September 2001
National Commission on the High School Senior Year, October 2001
Richard Nadler deconstructs Alfie Kohn in this week's National Review. While many others embrace the same pedagogical ideas that he does, what distinguishes Kohn, the author argues, is his single-minded struggle to place the elements of that pedagogy beyond criticism.
In a new book, Free Agent Nation, Daniel Pink explores how self-employed knowledge workers are increasingly transforming the American workplace as they abandon traditional jobs and reinvent themselves as freelancers, independent contractors, and proprietors of home-based businesses.
Every state wants to ensure that its public schools are staffed by excellent teachers, and to this end, most require that teachers complete a state-approved course of study at a school of education before receiving a teaching license. Defenders of these systems of certification (and those who would add to their requirements) contend that studies show that certified teachers are more effec
(1) In praise of public education. You may think I'm no fan of public education, and it's true that the U.S. version often exasperates me. But recent world news has underscored society's obligation to see that its young get educated, acculturated and socialized.
Without fanfare, the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), the country's largest constituency-based Hispanic organization, is embarking on a $25 million project to open 50 new Latino charter schools over the next five years. Behind the effort is Anthony Colon, who worked for 20 years in the bureaucracy of the New York City school system before becoming principal of a charter school in Oakland.
Without some form of standardized testing, there's no way to ensure that students are learning what they should.