Huge Win for Kids and Religiou...
The legacy of James G. Blaine, “Continental Liar from the State of Maine,” is finally dead. Good riddance! (Guest Post by Jason...
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The Wile E. Coyotes of Ed Refo...
I was raised on a steady diet of watching Looney Tunes. Sitting inches away from the screen every Saturday morning, bathed in its...
read moreComing This Fall with an All-S...
Greg Forster – File this under big-budget franchise reboots nobody was asking for. Reuters: New York will work with the Bill...
read moreWe Interrupt This Communist-Ca...
The Chinese Communist Party’s national computer system for managing surveillance is actually called Skynet. We now return you to your...
read moreThe New “Causal” Research on S...
Some researchers and journalists have become very excited about a new set of studies that claim to find a causal relationship between...
read moreEven Seemingly-Harmless Choice...
by Greg Forster – OCPA carries my article on an illegal data breach of private data on choice families in Arizona… The Arizona...
read moreWhole Leech-uage Instruction
(Guest post by Greg Forster) In the past I’ve stayed out of the Reading Wars, but no longer. OCPA carries my latest, in which I...
read morePass the Clicker: College Behi...
If you’d like to see an inspiring example of the power and purpose of education, watch the documentary series College Behind Bars on...
read morePass the Popcorn: Anything Men...
Guest post by Greg Forster – ”Do you know what that means? To forgive?” Adults only. I’m not joking. Go see A Beautiful Day in...
read moreAre Test Scores as Meaningless...
Guest post by Greg Forster – I’m already seeing this study being discussed as if it debunked all use of test scores. Four...
read moreAre Test Scores as Meaningless...
Guest post by Greg Forster – I’m already seeing this study being discussed as if it debunked all use of test scores. Four...
read moreWhy Ed Reform Needs Republican...
Rick Hess and I have a piece on National Review making the case, once again, that an ed reform movement that consists almost entirely...
read moreNominations Solicited for the ...
Guest post by Greg Forster – It! Is! That Time! Time once again for us to solicit nominations for the Al Copeland Humanitarian...
read moreThe Eternal Teacher Shortage
by Greg Forster – The Oklahoman carries my article on how a century’s worth of headlines in the...
read moreChildhood Trauma and School Ch...
Guest post by Greg Forster – Opinion leaders in Oklahoma are orchestrating a full-court press to use remediation of “childhood...
read moreReinventing Education Schools
by Greg Forster – OCPA has published my in-depth policy brief on why efforts to “reform” education schools don’t go deep enough...
read moreSchool Monopoly as Reverse Pat...
Guest post by Greg Forster – OCPA carries my article on the government school monopoly as “reverse patronage system”: In the...
read moreBeware of Economists Bearing E...
Josh Angrist, the MIT economist and a leading voice on research methods and education policy, has a recent piece in Forbes in which...
read moreEd Reform: The Next Generation
by Greg Forster – Much of the old education policy agenda – indiscriminate spending, top-down technocratic standards – is...
read moreNightmare in Providence
Guest Post by Jason Bedrick – By now, everyone in the ed policy world is aware of the damning report by Johns Hopkins...
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