The Weak Predictive Power of Test Scores

The school choice tent is far greater than it was once. Politicians and policy wonks round the ideological spectrum have embraced the leading that...

Is Political Control Over Charter Schools Wise?

In a recent essay, Andy Smarick proposed democratically controlled charter authorizers: If a major city includes a large charter sector, state could make a new...

NYT Hatchet Job on Charters

The New York Times incorporates a front page piece on charter schools in Detroit?that is so factually mistaken, misleading, and tendentious required an answer....

School Choice being an Antipoverty Strategy

Every American family chooses where their children will attend school, when they comprehend it or not. Some, however, read more choice than other people....

What’s going the following Twenty-Five Numerous Charter Schools Appear like?

June 4 marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the enactment of Minnesota's charter school law, the country's first. In broad terms, the authors' vision allowed...

Squeezing the general public School Districts in Louisiana

Governor John Bel Edwards recently cut funding of your Louisiana Scholarship Program (LSP), claiming it's vital to not spend as much. In your newest...

Ed Reform is Animal Farm

"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already that it was...

Be cautious in Drawing Conclusions from Ohio Voucher Study

The Thomas B. Fordham Institute recently released a report within the academic impact of Ohio's flagship school choice program created by noted researcher Dr....

Why I really hope Betsy DeVos Boosts School Vouchers

Back in September, together with the presidential election and Freddie Gray's death as backdrops, my sister organization MarylandCAN hosted 50CAN's annual summit in Baltimore,...

Religion and Student Motivation

My former students, Dan Bowen and Albert Cheng, have a new study that was just published?inside Journal of Catholic Education about religious priming may...

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