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All students are equal, why fund them differently?
Kevin Donnelly – Both the Government’s Australian Education Bill and the Opposition’s new education policy have been influenced by the Gonski Review. Here, Kevin Donnelly critiques the contentious report into… Read more
Fighting Big Food With Social Media
by Dana Woldow – Big food and beverage companies are spending less on advertising their products to kids, and yet their presence in children’s lives feels greater than ever. How… Read more
More funding, all-day K: ‘This is very definitely the education session’
By Beth Hawkins – Travel back for a moment to the halcyon days of 2010, when Mark Dayton was just a slightly nerdy guy with a passion for public education… Read more
GOP official: Party should have taken up Common Core but…
By Maureen Downey Judy Craft is a Gwinnett County resident who served on the State Resolutions Committee at the state GOP convention in Athens this past weekend representing the 7th… Read more
The ESA took my College Debt Away
by Matthew Ladner – Interesting read in Governing about universal college savings accounts for kindergarten students. Now if they would simply send the K-12 budget into these accounts with a meaningfully… Read more
California teachers are silenced by their teachers union
By Rebecca Friedrichs – SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Throughout our nation, teachers are being trained to combat bullying within our schools and social media. It’s ironic that this movement is led… Read more
Groups on right and left oppose Common Core standards in PA
By Eric Boehm – HARRISBURG – They don’t always agree on education policy, but when they do, it’s to oppose an unfunded mandate on school districts. PASS THE TEST: A… Read more
School turnaround genius Paul Vallas leaves a trail of destruction in Bridgeport
by Sprinkles – After taking a job as Bridgeport, CT’s school superintendent, a job he wasn’t qualified to hold, greasing the Chairman of Bridgeport’s Board of Education’s palm with a… Read more
Three Things Not to Miss in Wolf’s Post
by Greg Forster – Jay has already linked to Pat Wolf’s devastating knockout of the special ed smear campaign against Milwaukee vouchers. However, it’s such a long piece (there’s so… Read more
Research Roundup
Jay P. Greene – Two new studies deserve your attention. The first is a follow-up on the random-assignment evaluation of charter schools in Boston led by Josh Angrist at MIT. … Read more »