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Commentary

8.3.2021

Charter Schools, Governance, Private School Choice, Teachers & School Leaders

We’re moving toward a more student-focused, parent-directed, pluralistic K–12 system

Bruno V. Manno

“Never in my lifetime have so many parents been so eager for so much education change.” So said longtime pollster Frank Luntz after surveying 1,000 public and private school parents on how the pandemic affected their view of schools.

Commentary

8.3.2021

Evidence-Based Learning, Charter Schools, Private School Choice, Teachers & School Leaders

Districts are failing special-needs students. School choice is helping.

Ginny Gentles

Public schools have long failed to serve adequately students with disabilities, but school closures, disastrous for the millions of children with special needs, may finally encourage a critical mass of parents to do something about it.

Commentary

8.3.2021

Accountability & Testing, Evidence-Based Learning, Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

Remote instruction is to blame for plummeting test scores

Nat Malkus

Texas recently became the first state to release state test score data since the pandemic hit.