EducationCommentary
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently called for the doubling of funding for Early Head Start—a community-based program that serves low-income families with pregnant… Read More
EducationNews
WELLSBURG, Iowa—For this coming fall, Timothy Christian School will welcome just 45 students in kindergarten through 8th grade—the fewest to begin an academic year since… Read More
EducationCommentary
Imagine being able to create a tailored, made-to-order education for your child. Perhaps you know that the private school one neighborhood over has an excellent… Read More
EducationCommentary
The growing battle over the College Board’s Advanced Placement U.S. History (APUSH) framework is being described by Politico and others as the usual scrape over… Read More
EducationCommentary
Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval made education reform history last week when he signed the nation’s first universal education savings account program into law. The accounts are… Read More
EducationNews
Legislation has been introduced in the Michigan Legislature that would enact stricter regulations on homeschooling in the state. The legislation follows the deaths of two… Read More
EducationCommentary
The Silver State just struck gold. Nevada has just become the fifth state to enact groundbreaking education savings accounts (ESAs), which will enable families to… Read More
EducationNews
Earlier this week, professor Patrick Wolf of the University of Arkansas made the case for school choice in Washington, D.C. Based on his research, The… Read More
EducationNews
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says he will pull the state out of Common Core education standards—increasingly unpopular among parents and teachers alike—in favor of “higher,… Read More
EducationCommentary
Private school choice initiatives have become increasingly common across the United States. Far from being rare and untested, private school choice policies are an integral part… Read More
EducationCommentary
It’s hard to say which is more galling: when politicians want to extend the life of a program that doesn’t work, or when they want… Read More
EducationCommentary
The Obama administration has zeroed-out funding for any new scholarships in the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, meaning the program, which provides scholarships to children from… Read More
EducationNews
Archbishop Carroll High School, a private Catholic school about four miles north of the U.S. Capitol, today took center stage in the debate over school… Read More
EducationCommentary
The scenes of Baltimore set ablaze have many Americans thinking: What can be done to rescue families trapped in an inner-city culture of violence, despair… Read More
EducationCommentary
Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant (R) has just vetoed an “anti”–Common Core bill. He was right to do so. The bill didn’t do what its backers… Read More
EducationCommentary
States continue to wrest their way from the Common Core national standards and tests. Considering the problems that have plagued implementation, along with ongoing concerns… Read More
EducationCommentary
Sens. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and Patty Murray, D-Wash., have released a draft of their No Child Left Behind rewrite, which is slated to be considered… Read More
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We celebrated Monday that Columbia University had shut down a Chinese student society reputed to front for Beijing, seeing in it a ray of hope… Read More
EducationCommentary
The Academic Partnerships Lead Us to Success Act (APLUS) proposal would allow states to completely opt out of the programs under No Child Left Behind… Read More
EducationCommentary
“Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech.” The words of the First Amendment couldn’t be plainer. Yet more than two centuries after… Read More
EducationCommentary
An influential teacher spoke out against Common Core—and I share her concerns.
EducationCommentary
In late February, the Student Success Act, a rewrite of No Child Left Behind (NCLB), was pulled from consideration on the House floor. Conservatives had… Read More
EducationCommentary
Education savings accounts (ESAs) have become the way forward for states wishing to adopt innovative school choice measures. ESAs enable parents to completely customize their… Read More
EducationCommentary
The following are Jim DeMint’s prepared remarks delivered to the William F. Buckley Jr. Program at Yale University. I’d like to start out by telling… Read More
It’s not every governor who can say the record shows his state’s schoolchildren did better because he applied conservative principles of choice and accountability. Jeb Bush can and… Read More
EducationCommentary
A school in Virginia suspended an 11-year-old boy for 364 days after he brought a leaf to class that resembled marijuana. One problem: It was… Read More
EducationCommentary
There are long term benefits to paying teachers by how well students perform in the classroom, according to a new study released by Israeli economist Victor… Read More
EducationAnalysis
For the majority of states that adopted the Common Core national standards in 2010, this is the school year in which testing begins. And the… Read More
EducationNews
As president, George W. Bush made passage of No Child Left Behind one of his first priorities. Now, his brother Jeb Bush is speaking out… Read More
EducationCommentary
San Franciscans are currently debating a simple question: Should the government respect the right of Catholic schools to be authentically Catholic? San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore… Read More
