Governance and Leadership
Polls Seem to Differ on Charters, But In Fact They Agree
According to the Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup poll, 64 percent of all Americans “favor the idea of charters.” But according to the Ednext poll, only 39 percent “support the formation of charter schools.”
Governance and Leadership
Mostly Harmless
Beneath the over-reactions and counter-over-reactions on Obama’s speech today is a real issue — Who should have primary responsibility for raising (educating) children?
Governance and Leadership
Health Lessons from Schools
If the public-school analogy holds, the public option in health-care insurance won't create a system of choice and competition, as the White House claims; it will slowly -- or not so slowly -- give way to a (nearly) single-payer system.
Governance and Leadership
President Obama’s Real Message
The President’s real message on education reform will be delivered early next year, when Education Secretary Arne Duncan makes the first round of Race to the Top grants.
Governance and Leadership
Trench Warfare on the Board of Ed
I was the infamous “rogue” board member, the person that school board associations give seminars about.
Governance and Leadership
When It Comes to Charter Schools, What Do Americans Really Care About?
A look at the latest Ednext poll convinces me that the charter school movement needs to do one and only one thing to succeed—prove that charters can be effective in the classroom.
Governance and Leadership
Ted Kennedy, R.I.P.
More than anyone else who comes to mind in American public life, Edward M. Kennedy ascended from reprobate to icon, from an object of criticism, even ridicule, to statesman.
Governance and Leadership
Principals and Teachers Unaware That Courts Defer to Schools When It Comes to Discipline
Courts have given school authorities broad powers over student discipline. So why do students...
Governance and Leadership
A Modest, and Perhaps Naïve, Proposal
Yesterday the Board of Education for the city of Los Angeles voted to allow private operators to run up to one third of the district’s public schools.
Governance and Leadership
What Is to Be Done (by the U.S. Department of Education)?
As the education blogosphere turns its attention from Secretary Duncan’s Race to the Top fund to his Investing in Innovation fund, economist Eric Hanushek offers his take on what federal education policy can and cannot accomplish.
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