On this week's podcast, special guest Dakarai Aarons, Vice President of Strategic Communications for the Data Quality Campaign, joins Mike Petrilli and Alyssa Schwenk to discuss press coverage of Betsy DeVos. During the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines the role high schools play in graduates’ colleges and majors.
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“Winners never quit and quitters never win.” There's a lot of truth in that cliché, but it doesn't seem to apply to education. When it comes to chronically low-performing schools, in many cases, the better – and more courageous – course is to “quit” and close a school that is simply beyond repair.
One of the hallmarks of school accountability is the identification of and intervention in persistently low-preforming schools.
Parents make choices about their child’s schooling based on a variety of factors: location, safety, convenience, academics, extracurriculars, support services, and more. Many families choose their school by moving to the neighborhood of their preference, thus exercising “choice” when making homeownership decisions.
By Thomas W. Carroll
By Dara Zeehandelaar, Ph.D. and Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.
Tomorrow marks the end of National School Choice Week 2017.
A new teacher’s pension is supposed to be a perk. The truth is that for the majority of the nation’s new teachers, what they can anticipate in retirement benefits will be worth less than what they contributed to the system while they were in the classroom, even if they stay for decades.
The American Federation for Children (AFC) recently released its third annual poll on school choice. The national poll surveyed just over 1,000 likely November 2018 voters early this January via phone calls.
On this week's podcast, Mike Petrilli, Alyssa Schwenk, and Brandon Wright discuss President Trump’s inauguration speech and what he said about education and globalization. During the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines how grading systems affect student effort.
One of the few education promises President-elect Trump made on the campaign trail was to launch a major new federal initiative on school choice. By nominating choice advocate Betsy DeVos to be his secretary of education, he indicated that he was serious about it.
When President Donald Trump stopped by a Cleveland charter school in September, he promised to “establish the national goal of providing school choice to every American child living in poverty.” Although he
As a two-term president and the de facto leader of the free world, Barack Obama has represented with his tenure a triumphant opus to the opportunity that makes the American experiment possible.
On this week's podcast, special guest Andy Smarick, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, joins Mike Petrilli and Alyssa Schwenk to discuss Betsy DeVos’s confirmation hearing and what the feds might do to promote school choice. During the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines the effects of New Orleans school reforms on school expenditures.
By Aaron Churchill, Jamie Davies O’Leary, and Chad L. Aldis
