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The Boys Left Behind

The educational achievement differences between white and minority students are well documented and universally understood. Less appreciated, however, is the gap in educational performance between the...

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"Losing Ground" in Education Reform

What would you think if you opened the Wall Street Journal to find an op-ed arguing that money managers should not be measured against performance benchmarks like the S&P? Further, the author...

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Advancement

Should the grade-level a student is in be based entirely on how old he is or at least partially on how skilled he is? This is the fundamental question underlying the debate over social promotion --...

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Union Days

There was a time when Harvard stood for the Union. Almost 600 of its sons fought for the North in the Civil War, nearly one-quarter of whom gave their lives. Only the names of those Union dead are...

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A Special Plan for Palin

Sometimes even the greatest joys bring challenge. And children with special needs inspire a special love. To the families of special-needs children all across this country, I have a message: For years,...

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Change that Won't Happen . . . Thankfully

The Democrats’ 2008 campaigns, congressional and presidential alike, were all about change. But judging by education’s share of the $819-billion stimulus package that passed the House last week, we...

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Vouchers: Not Dead Yet

The Washington, D.C., voucher program is not dead yet. Congress has set its execution date, slipping a provision into last month’s omnibus spending bill to end the program unless it is re-authorized by...

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The Problems with Special Ed

Officially reported disability rates in public schools are entirely unreliable and are almost certainly inflated indicators of how many students are actually disabled. Eventually, school and government...

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Where the Unemployment Isn't

This year, when you hear President Obama and congressional Democrats talk about increasing government spending to create jobs, you should understand that it isn’t really about jobs. It’s about paying...

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Diane Ravitch’s Credibility in Dispute

For some reason, when a prominent policy expert completely changes her position on an issue, her views are thought to have extra credibility. So when Diane Ravitch, an education historian who served...

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Bad-Mouthing Texas

President Bush's education policy has been taking some hits recently. A series of articles in the New York Times revealed that Houston schools, where current Education Secretary Rod Paige was once...

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High-Stakes Editorializing

The New York Times' weekly education column is perhaps the most widely read and influential newspaper space for education policy. The column, which for the last year has been under the pen of Michael...

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The Voucher Challenge

States and cities across the nation are considering school vouchers as a way to improve their education systems. Colorado recently joined Florida, Milwaukee, and Cleveland in adopting legislation to...

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It's Elementary

John Kerry recently unveiled his plan to make college more affordable. His "Service for College" initiative would offer students free college tuition in exchange for two years of public service doing...

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Killing Opportunity

This week a district appeals court ruled that Florida's Opportunity Scholarship Program, which provides vouchers to students in chronically failing public schools, violates the state's constitution...

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Quit Blaming The Kids

It's not us, it's the kids. That's the line we've heard for years from the defenders of the education status quo. It isn't the schools' fault that we pour so much money into education and get lousy...

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A Long-Term Choice

Nobody needs to be told that urban education is in lousy shape. Only half of America's black and Hispanic students graduate from high school. Gigantic increases in per-pupil spending over many decades...

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Education Myths

Much of what people believe about education policy is simply not true. An examination of the evidence reveals that many common claims about education are as mythological as anything found in Homer or...

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Stupid Judge Tricks

We had always heard complaints about outrageous judicial activism, where judges essentially operate as lawmakers, inventing convoluted legal rationalizations to produce their preferred policy outcome....

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The 65-Cent Delusion

A seductively simple and horribly wrongheaded proposal is sweeping through education-reform circles and catching on with policymakers. The proposal, often called the "65-cent" solution, is to mandate...

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