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In the News

Need Deficit Solutions? Think School Choice

with Herbert J. Walbergvia Pacific Research Institute
Wednesday, January 16, 2008

According to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, California faces a combined $14 billion budget deficit for this fiscal year and the next...

In the News

The Underlying Issues

by Diane Ravitchvia Education Week
Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Your description of CPESS and other Coalition schools sounds like a memory from a distant past...

In the News

NYU Under the Influence

with Richard A. Epsteinvia New York Sun
Monday, January 14, 2008

Let us resist, in respect of the arrest in New Hampshire of one of Senator Clinton's campaign aides, Sidney Blumenthal, for drunken driving, the urge to attack him the way Democrats attacked George W. Bush for his 1976 DUI, which was disclosed in the final days of the 2000 presidential campaign...

In the News

Competition, everywhere

by Russ Robertsvia Cafe Hayek
Thursday, January 10, 2008

I have believed for a while now that an important reason that suburban public schools outperform urban public schools is that suburban public schools have to keep the parents happier because of the competition from private schools...

In the News

Grading Schools

by Diane Ravitchvia Education Week
Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Let's talk about grading schools and about when it is appropriate to close schools...

Analysis and Commentary

Education schools should admit they have a problem

by Liam Julianvia Detroit News
Monday, December 31, 2007

Just how good are most doctors?

In the News

Standards are Within Our Reach

by Diane Ravitchvia Education Week
Tuesday, December 18, 2007

I don't agree with your judgment—and the judgment of some (but not all) of our readers—about whether it is feasible to craft useful standards...

Analysis and Commentary

Not Your Father’s Campus

by Thomas Sowellvia Creators Syndicate
Tuesday, December 18, 2007

There is an article in the current issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education — the trade publication of the academic world — about professors being physically intimidated by their students...

Analysis and Commentary

A Flawed Reform

by Diane Ravitchvia New York Sun
Monday, December 17, 2007

The New York City Department of Education has embarked on a perilous new path in its efforts to raise test scores...

Analysis and Commentary

Performance- pay anxiety: Teachers unions may actually do a kind deed for Florida schools

by Liam Julianvia Orlando Sentinel
Sunday, December 16, 2007

Was it an ancient Chinese proverb that first noted the peril of trusting teachers unions?

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