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June 18, 2024
A Unified Theory of Education
…education. In the early 1900s, progressives sought to bureaucratize K-12 into what historian David Tyack termed “the one best system.” In the 1920s, Oregon progressives (along with the anti-Catholic Ku…
May 4, 2024
Make Parents Pay for Kids Who Miss School To Curb Chronic School Absenteeism
…enrollment by 25%” per the National Bureau of Economic Research. Learnfare is the law today in liberal Massachusetts, which shows that such an approach does not have to be draconian. Chronic…
March 14, 2024
The “No Excuses” Model Is Due for a Renaissance
…“dystopian science fiction movie” is a shining example of a luxury belief, the phrase coined by Rob Henderson to connote ideas and opinions held by the affluent or privileged that are…
March 11, 2024
Why Educators Often Have It Wrong About Right-Leaning Parents
…of goodness and malice is exhibiting an authoritarian moral sensibility that’s ill-suited to inclusive leadership in democratic schools. We’ve found that being on the wrong side of conventional wisdom in…
March 5, 2024
A Conservative Vision for Education Reform
…status quo. A custodian needs to recognize when things have stopped working or gotten out of whack. Part of the job is to put things right. But a custodian does…
February 22, 2024
Chronic Absenteeism Could Be the Biggest Problem Facing Schools Right Now
…7 percent to 15 percent among Asian students, from 11 percent to 24 percent among white students, from 16 percent to 36 percent among Hispanic students, and from 18 percent…
September 22, 2023
Repairing the Damage Columbia’s Teachers College Did to American Kids Will Take Years
…for the past quarter-century. Dominated but didn’t improve reading ability in any meaningful way, particularly among the city’s black and Hispanic students. About two-thirds of New York’s Asian and white students passed…
June 30, 2023
The U.S. Could Learn a Lot from This School in the U.K.
…Arizona adopted universal ESAs, for example, Great Hearts Academies, a well-regarded charter-school operator, moved quickly to launch a network of private, classical Christian academies aimed at low-income families who are now armed…
June 26, 2023
Why There Are So Few Black Kids at Stuyvesant: Private Schools and Charter Schools Pull Top Students Out of the System
…In 2022, only 1% of Black students scored at the advanced level in reading. By contrast, 5% of white and 12% of Asian students scored at that level. These shares were exactly…
June 9, 2023
Schools Use Racist “Reparations Math” to Indoctrinate Black Students with Victimization
…education are counted, the median wealth of the average married, college-educated Black family is about $160,000 more than the median wealth of an average single parent White family — nearly completely reversing…