Do Students Have Too Much Homework?
Kathleen Porter-MageeTom Loveless, Brown Center on Education Policy, Brookings Institution and RAND CorporationOctober 1, 2003
Teacher Quality: Understanding the Effectiveness of Teacher Attributes
Eric OsbergJennifer King Rice, Economic Policy Institute2003
Schoolyard Revolutions: How Research on Urban School Reform Undermines Reform
Chester E. Finn, Jr.Joseph Viteritti, Political Science QuarterlySummer 2003
So much for diversity
Colleges and universities pride themselves on being havens of diversity where the best and brightest of every race, creed, and color come together to teach, study, and conduct research. However, as any non-P.C. academic is apt already to have learned in painful ways, this commitment to diversity is generally skin-deep.
So much money, so little time
Among the many arguments that voucher opponents level against the D.C. voucher program is the supposed drain they would cause in the District's public school budget. This argument is nonsense, especially in D.C., where Congress is ready to sweeten the pot with quite a lot more money for the regular public-school system.
Facing facts
Chester E. Finn, Jr."Facts are stubborn things," John Adams famously wrote, "and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." Nowhere is that truer than in education, where passions and wishes often take the place of hard information.
Michigan charter mess
How to describe the bizarre chain of recent events in Michigan? It began when philanthropist Robert Thompson offered to build 15 charter schools in the educational wasteland of Detroit, at a cost of $200 million.
A mixed bag on teacher pay
In Iowa and Philadelphia, teacher pay-for-performance plans are in serious jeopardy. In Iowa, lawmakers are considering scrapping their state's initiative, which was adopted back in 2001 but never really implemented due to budget constraints.
Vouchers, interrupted
The debate over the D.C. voucher bill took a nasty turn in recent days, with Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA) accusing the GOP of using the voteless District as a guinea pig.