Education (k-12)
Tuesday, December 18, 2007Charter School Reform--or Deform?Filed As: Education (k-12)Florida lawmakers are making noises about reforming the charter school environment. Reform, it should be noted, is not always a positive development. The Orlando Sentinel has the story. Possible ... more »»
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Monday, December 17, 2007Incomes Up in California ...... for legislators, school superintendents Filed As: Budget and Tax, Education (k-12), GeneralSalaries for legislators in California will now be $116,208 per year, says the Pacific Research Institute. I imagine that comes with a rather nice health plan, too. K. Lloyd Billingsley doesn't beat on legislators ... more »»
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007No More Charter School Applications; We're too BusyFiled As: Education (k-12)Edspresso has a few comments on the expanding demand for charter schools--and one state board's reluctance to allow more of them. One amazing fact is the disproportionate number of charter schools on a list of ... more »»
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Friday, December 7, 2007Trouble in ParadiseFiled As: Education (k-12)On this Pearl Harbor Day, I think of Hawaii. That state's think tank, the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii, tells us that the school system there has a lot of work to do:
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Monday, December 17, 2007Florida Teachers Union: Class Size Amendment Needs FixingFiled As: Education (k-12)So much for smaller classes. A few years ago, Florida residents institute, by popular ballot, a measure to require small class sizes. As it turns out, implementing the mandate has been a ... more »»
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Tuesday, December 11, 2007Double Down on Losing BetsFiled As: Education (k-12)George F. Will tears into No Child Left Behind and state (as well as federal) politicians in a recent column that is loaded with tart commentary. Here's the first ... more »»
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Monday, December 10, 2007Stupid Parents!Filed As: Education (k-12)John Tillman, chairman of the Illinois Policy Institute , uses a riff on the old Mark Twain quote about parents and children to describe public policy towards education. Twain, you might recall, said something like this: "When I was a boy of ... more »»
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Thursday, December 6, 2007A Rebellion Against MainstreamingFiled As: Education (k-12)So how’s that mainstreaming working out? The Wall Street Journal (subscriber’s link) recently reported on a rebellion against the idea of mainstreaming special education students by placing them in ... more »»
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Wednesday, December 5, 2007University, Meet Charter SchoolFiled As: Education (higher), Education (k-12)Terry Stoops, of the John Locke Foundation, suggests that the University of North Carolina start running some charter schools on its campuses. The logic: the university can update its teacher training program and charter schools need teachers. Stoops, an education policy analyst for the ... more »»
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Wednesday, December 5, 2007U.S. Students Fall Behind ... AgainFiled As: Education (k-12)We don't really need another indicator of the need for school reform here in the U.S., but we got another one, in the form of an international comparison of math and science. Says the Associated Press story titled more »»
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