School choice, student mobility, and school quality in New Orleans
By Robert Pondiscio
By Robert Pondiscio
The whole point of the Every Student Succeeds Act was to revert financial and regulatory authority back to states after No Child Left Behind’s era of federal supremacy.
Outliers make for great stories and headlines, but they don’t do much for policy discussions—particularly school choice policy. Recently, there has been a flurry of headlines citing tales of “extreme sacrifice” by Detroit students in their efforts to commute great distances to the schools of their choice.
In the wake of Prince’s untimely death on Thursday, the world marks the passing of a multi-talented performer and musical polymath.
Pope Francis is exhorting church leaders across the globe to join the school choice movement.
The cause of school choice took a major step forward in Florida last week when Governor Rick Scott signed a bill codifying open enrollment and increasing funding for charter schools.
By Michael J. Petrilli
Bolder action is required
On Tuesday, April 12, 2016, the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions held a full committee hearing titled “ESSA Implementation in States and School Districts: Perspectives from the U.S. Secretary of Education,” the first of a series of oversight hearings on the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).
By Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.
By Kathleen Porter-Magee
By Jonathan Plucker, Ph.D. and Brandon Wright
By Chester E. Finn, Jr.
By Michael J. Petrilli
By Jamie Davies O’Leary
Here’s the speech I wish Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser would give:
By Andrew Scanlan
By Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.
By Lisa Hansel and Robert Pondiscio
If you’re at all interested in Washington, D.C. schools, you should read this excellent report by David Osborne. It serves as a quick and comprehensive history lesson on the city’s last two decades of reform.
Editor's note: This post was first published on Flypaper on July 21, 2015.
How is education money better spent?
By Andrew Scanlan
Way back in the days of NCLB, testing often existed in a vacuum.
If you care about state education policy and/or the new federal education law, you ought to spend some time doing three things. First, consider how the performance of schools (and networks of schools) needs to be assessed.
On February 2, I had the privilege of being a judge for the Fordham Institute’s ESSA Accountability Design Competition. It’s widely known that I’m a fan of using competition to drive policy innovation, and this competition did not disappoint.