Protecting Public Education from Tax Giveaways to Corporations
The National Education AssociationJanuary 2003
The National Education AssociationJanuary 2003
Heinrich Mintrop, Education Policy Analysis ArchivesJanuary 15, 2003
Lance T. Izumi, K. Lloyd Billingsley and Diallo DphrepaulezzPacific Research InstituteNovember 2002
Since New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein announced last week that the city will require all but its top elementary schools to use a reading curriculum called Month by Month Phonics [see "Letters From New York City: Bloomberg's Reforms" in last week's Gadfly], top reading experts have raised doubts about the t
Groups in two states are using the No Child Left Behind Act as the basis for lawsuits aimed at forcing states and districts to provide better teachers and school choices.
Last week, the British government's Department for Education and Skills (DfES) released its annual "league tables," which rate schools in England based on student performance on national tests. For the first time, DfES also issued a value-added analysis of school performance.
I must say I am thoroughly intrigued by the education reform experiment being conducted in New York as reported by Diane Ravitch. ["Letter from New York City: Bloomberg's Reforms,"] I certainly wish them well.
While a survey of college freshmen reveals a continuing decline in the time they spend studying or doing homework during their senior year of high school, their high school grade point averages continue to climb.
Clever as always, Miss Manners this week chides parents who neglect their "homework" of teaching children the ability to sit still for short periods of time, to listen to what other people say, and to refrain from hitting.
Last week, the Fraser Institute in British Columbia announced the launch of Children First: School Choice Trust, Canada's first privately-funded voucher program, which is aimed at helping poor families send their children to private schools. The program will provide grants paying 50 percent of tuition, up to a maximum of $3,500 per year, for up to 150 students in Ontario.
You know how a balloon mortgage works: you pay a low interest rate at the beginning, but a few years out the rate soars. So you hope to refinance on more favorable terms - or offload the real estate onto someone else - before that painful day arrives.As tomorrow's deadline hits for states to file their No Child Left Behind (NCLB) accountability plans with the U.S.
Fingering localized school funding as the cause of the persistent incompetence of many schools (as well as the source of great inequalities in per pupil spending), writer (and former White House aide) James Pinkerton proposes what he calls a grand compromise to address both these problems and please both Republicans and Democrats to boot: a Pell grant program for K-12 education.
Since last year, top Washington (D.C.) Teachers' Union officials have been under investigation for having embezzled more than $5 million and using those funds to purchase luxury goods for themselves.