Money for Nothing: The Failures of Education Reform in Massachusetts
Sanjiv Jaggia and Vidisha Vachharajani, with the assistance of Joseph McCarthyBeacon Hill Institute at Suffolk UniversityMay 2004
Sanjiv Jaggia and Vidisha Vachharajani, with the assistance of Joseph McCarthyBeacon Hill Institute at Suffolk UniversityMay 2004
Jay P. Greene and Marcus A. Winters, Manhattan InstituteMay 2004
Cynthia G. Brown, Citizens??? Commission on Civil RightsMay 2004
Three bills before the California legislature would reform that state's infamous textbook adoption process. Assembly Bill 2455 aims to curb the ever-escalating cost of textbooks.
The Chronicle of Higher Education has an important article on pushback from the education research community concerning the use of randomized studies of education interventions.
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New data available this week from Standard & Poor's shows that charter schools sponsored by Central Michigan University have made strong academic gains over the past three years. CMU is the largest university charter sponsor in the country, overseeing a quarter of Michigan's 202 charter schools.
San Diego City Council member Rocky Chavez is in hot water for the unusual pitch he makes to students considering enrolling in his charter School of Business and Technology.
Virginia, a mostly conservative state, would seem a natural environment for school choice and, in fact, polls show that many Virginians support choice as a means of injecting competition into the education system. Yet the Old Dominion has been inhospitable territory for this reform strategy, boasting one of the weakest charter laws on the books.