Tapping America's Potential: The Education for Innovation Initiative
The Business Roundtable August 2005
The Business Roundtable August 2005
Educational Policy InstituteAugust 2005
Ericca Maas, Milton & Rose D. Friedman Foundation and the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public AffairsJuly 2005Indiana???s New and (Somewhat) Improved K-12 School Finance SystemDr. Susan L. Aud, Milton & Rose D. Friedman FoundationJuly 2005
A riddle: Who has been talking a good game for forty years about equalizing resources for poor kids while creating obscure rules that do the exact opposite? Answer: Uncle Sam. Title I, the mother of all federal education programs, requires that high-poverty schools receive roughly comparable resources before adding funds from Washington.
Good grief! Americans' famed ambivalence, not to say schizophrenia, deepens with respect to school reforms. The annual Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup Poll released Tuesday, which measures the nation's attitudes toward public schools, shows that while most Americans endorse the goals associated with the No Child Left Behind Act, few embrace its methods.
Readers are surely aware that, while vacationing at the ranch, President Bush uttered a few unfortunate words about the teaching of so-called intelligent design: "Both sides ought to be properly taught...so people can understand what the debate is about...Part of education is to expose people to different schools of thought...You're asking me whether or not people ought to be exposed to differe
The summer heat causes some to wilt, but it seems to have stiffened the spine of Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings.
Harold Stevenson, one of the most eminent education researchers of our generation, died in July at the age of 80. A professor of psychology at the University of Michigan for thirty years, Stevenson was best known for his book (co-authored by James Stigler), The Learning Gap: Why Our Schools Are Failing and What We Can Learn from Japanese and Chinese Education, published in 1992.
U.S. charter schools are being deprived of essential funding in nearly every community and state where they are found.