Open the Preschool Door, Close the Preparation Gap
Sara Mead, Progressive Policy InstituteSeptember 2004
Sara Mead, Progressive Policy InstituteSeptember 2004
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Jay Greene and Greg Forster, The Manhattan InstituteSeptember 2004
Caroline M. Hoxby, Harvard University and National Bureau of Economic Research September 2004
Every person in America wants every child in America to have a terrific teacher every year. That much we can assume. Why, then, is it so hard to craft sound policies yielding that universally sought result? Excellent question.
The unfortunate saga of the California Charter Academy, closed for various improprieties last month (click here and here for more), has something like a happy ending.
Ask most parents to rate the American education system compared to the rest of the industrialized world, and they'd no doubt tell you it is second to none.
The American Enterprise Institute's Frederick M. Hess and our own Checker Finn have three new and overlapping analyses of the No Child Left Behind Act, with particular reference to that law's accountability and choice provisions.
Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty announced this week that three schools in the Land of 10,000 Lakes will pilot a new teacher pay-for-performance plan that he hopes will pave the way toward more ambitious merit pay schemes down the road.