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Zero Tolerance for Charter Schools
By John Locke Foundation, John Locke FoundationSpotlight, 02/05/2010
This study asks the question: How many public schools would close if the state instituted the new “Revocation of Charter for Lack of Academic Performance” policy, three years ago and applied to charter and district schools alike? According to state testing results for the last three years, the State Board of Education would be forced to close 164 public schools. Of the 164 total schools, 155 of the closed schools would be district schools, three of them would be alternative district schools, and six of them would be charter schools. Overall, the state would close 6.5 percent of the total district and district alternative schools in North Carolina and 6.2 percent of the state’s charter schools.
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Competition and Education Reform
By Eileen Norcross, Johan van der Walt, Jerrod Anderson, Mercatus CenterMercatus on Policy, 02/02/2010
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act allocated approximately $9 billion for funding K-12 education, and conditioned part of these funds on states increasing the number of charter schools. The authors examine the role of federal funding for charter schools, discussing how these policies both improve and threaten competitiveness and results in education.
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Cages of Their Own Design: Five Strategies to Help Education Leaders Break Free
By Frederick M. Hess, American Enterprise InstituteEducation Outlook, 02/02/2010
The education profession is notorious for its resistance to change. School leaders often claim that collective bargaining agreements, state and federal regulations, and budget concerns prevent them from pursuing effective school reform. The culture of the K-12 leadership environment is one that often seeks consensus over progress and collegiality over accountability. But breakthrough leadership is possible in schools. This Outlook offers five strategies to help reform-minded educators step boldly out of self-defeating mind-sets into the turbulence of change.
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Ways to Make Higher Education More Affordable
By Dan Lips, The Heritage FoundationWebMemo, 02/01/2010
President Obama’s newest plan for subsidizing student loan borrowers would not address the root problem: out-of-control college costs.
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A Smarter Path to a “Race to the Top” in Education Reform
By Dan Lips, The Heritage FoundationWebMemo, 01/26/2010
Race to the Top, like No Child Left Behind, is likely to provide disappointing results and problematic consequences.
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Evaluating Education Reforms for the Extraordinary Session
By Justin Owen, Tennessee Center for Policy ResearchPolicy Brief, 01/26/2010
As lawmakers grapple with reforming teacher performance evaluations and tenure, as well as restructuring the higher education funding mechanism, they should strongly consider the long-range impact that their decisions will have on the entire education system. Solving the issue with diligence would benefit the state much more than a temporary fix designed to receive onetime federal money.
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Lowering the Bar to Get a Passing Grade
By Charles Chieppo, Pioneer Institute for Public Policy ResearchPolicy Brief, 01/25/2010
Southern New England School of Law interest in offering itself to the UMass is clear. It appears to be no less than a matter of life and death for the embattled law school. The benefits that would accrue to the citizens of Massachusetts are far less obvious. At the very least, the Commonwealth’s taxpayers should be made aware of the costs that would likely be associated with turning SNESL into the University of Massachusetts Law School before a final decision is made.
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Public School Results at Elite Prep-School Prices
By Steve Anderson, Oklahoma Council of Public AffairsCurrent Perspective, 01/25/2010
It’s clear that government officials owe Oklahoma’s taxpayers more sunshine and transparency than they’re currently getting. The state’s most powerful labor union, the Oklahoma Education Association, says we spend $7,615 per pupil in Oklahoma. The union gets this number from the National Center for Education Statistics. But I have conducted a comprehensive examination of public education spending in Oklahoma for the 2007-08 school year (the latest year for which actual data are available), and I estimate the real number is $10,257 per pupil. My study was designed to measure every cost involved in funding and operating the public education system. Instead of arbitrarily selecting or excluding a cost, I used common-sense guidelines with an independent referee-the Governmental Accounting Standards Board.
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No State Left Behind
By Marcus A. Winters, Manhattan InstituteCity Journal, 01/22/2010
States’ low standards have spurred a bipartisan campaign to create worthwhile national ones. Conservative groups like the Fordham Foundation have pushed for national standards for years; more recently, President Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, as well as local leaders like New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein, have embraced the idea. But the road to national standards would be extremely tough to navigate politically. A more feasible approach would give all states an incentive to set objectively high standards themselves, and the looming reauthorization of the federal No Child Left Behind act gives us a perfect opportunity to do it.
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Head Start Earns an F: No Lasting Impact for Children by First Grade
By David B. Muhlhausen, Dan Lips , The Heritage FoundationBackgrounder, 01/22/2010
Recently released results from the Head Start Impact Study indicate that the benefits of participating in Head Start almost completely disappear by first grade. While other studies have previously assessed Head Start’s effectiveness, this is the only study that used a rigorous experimental design. Given this strongly negative evaluation, Congress should reconsider spending more than $9 billion per year on a program that produces few positive lasting effects. Furthermore, instead of creating yet another new federal preschool program at a cost of $8 billion, Congress and the Obama Administration should focus on terminating, consolidating, and reforming existing preschool and child care programs to better serve children’s needs and to improve efficiency for taxpayers.
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Challenging the Sensitivity Gestapo
By Frederick FicoSeptember 09, 2009
The trajectory of my career changed in late 2006, although I could never have recognized it at the time. A tenured full professor of journalism at Michigan State University, I was sitting in my office when a student dropped by and identified himself as the chairman of the MSU College...
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School Reform That Can Work
By Frederick M. Hess and Thomas GiftJanuary 16, 2008
Year in and year out, education reform shows an earnest tendency to paint by numbers. Those seeking to improve schools latch onto the familiar litany of "best practices" and hot new instructional techniques, asserting that if only administrators identified and implemented the right set of prescriptions, successful reform would cascade...
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Multicultural Education: Unifying or Divisive Force?
By Robert HollandMay 01, 2004
The multicultural movement has had a profound effect on how schools teach United States history. The state of the curriculum in Illinois and Chicago provides a case in point. Recently, Sheldon Stern, historian at the prestigious John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston, graded the standards of 48 states on...
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The Stuff of Kids’ Dreams
By Clint BolickApril 01, 2003
The Supreme Court ruled last summer that the school-choice program in Cleveland is constitutional. This is a great victory for America’s children, especially those children from poor and minority backgrounds who benefit the most from school choice. But while we chalk one up for freedom, we should not forget how...
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Voucher Wars: Laying the Groundwork
By Clint BolickApril 01, 2003
The modern case for school vouchers was first made by the Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman, who introduced the concept of “vouchers” into the American lexicon. Acknowledging that Americans would not support the government’s getting out of the education business altogether, Friedman advocated the next-best thing: instead of providing education...
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What's Next For School Choice?
By Todd Gazanio and Krista KaferJuly 01, 2002
In a long-anticipated ruling, on June 27 the Supreme Court upheld the Cleveland school choice program against a federal constitutional challenge and made it extremely unlikely that any such challenge could prevail against similar choice programs in the future. In its landmark opinion, the Supreme Court removed one of the...
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Implementation Watch: Students’ Rights Under the No Child Left Behind Act
By Krista KaferJune 01, 2002
States and school districts must implement the school choice provisions in the No Child Left Behind Act (P.L.107-110) at the beginning of the new school year. Some states and school districts will go the extra mile to ensure that students in failing schools have many options from which to choose....
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Landmark v. The NEA
By Mark R. LevinNovember 01, 2001
Landmark Legal Foundation's five-year investigation of the National Education Association, and subsequent legal action, is a powerful reminder of the value of persistence and hard-work. It is also an impressive example of how conservative activists can pro-actively and effectively counter established, entrenched, and well-funded opposition. Introduction In the 12 years that...
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Rediscovering Liberal Education: A Case for Reform in America’s Universities
By Stephen H. BalchJuly 01, 2001
The modern American university is the product of confidence: confidence in its concrete utility, and confidence in its service to freedom and democracy. Concrete utility has mainly been the product of the university’s scientific/technological establishments, and the research and training facilities they embody. Freedom and democracy have been the province...
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The Portsmouth Declaration: A Call for Intellectual and Moral Excellence in Schooling
April 01, 2001
On January 25-26, 2001, The Link Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting content and character in the classroom, convened a group of scholars to discuss a path-breaking article by Dartmouth College Professor James Bernard Murphy, entitled “Good Students, Good Persons.” Asking the question: “what is education?” and looking at...
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