The last several years have seen a growing interest in the American principles of liberty, personal responsibility, and individualism. These three principles are often applied to the areas of government spending and...
Blog Posts Tagged with education reform
National School Choice Week kicks off this Sunday, January 23! It marks a great and necessary groundswell of support for significant education reform. It’s also why we changed up our homepage to all education-related...
Posted by: Devin Foley on January 21, 2011
Anyone willing to objectively look at the data regarding the performance of today’s public schools will admit that the system is crumbling. Reformers of all sorts regularly put forth a variety of proposed solutions...
Posted by: Devin Foley on September 21, 2010
Our newest topic page addition, Education Achievement Gap, looks at an issue that conjures surprisingly broad agreement across the political spectrum.
The...
Posted by: Anja Hartleb-Parson on September 10, 2010
“New data show that fewer than 25% of 2010 graduates who took the ACT college-entrance exam possessed the academic skills necessary to pass entry-level courses, despite modest gains in college-readiness among U.S high...
Posted by: Devin Foley on August 19, 2010
Our new library topic explores the history, growth, progress, and positive and negative consequences of No Child Left...
Posted by: Anja Hartleb-Parson on April 15, 2010
We keep hearing about the importance of higher education. These days preparing for college is one of the prime goals of K-12 schools, and kids are drilled with the notion that college is their best shot at a decent,...
Posted by: Anja Hartleb-Parson on March 19, 2010
For those of you wondering what has caused the much-discussed decline in education, take a close look at the last sixty years. As our new topic...
Posted by: Anja Hartleb-Parson on February 28, 2010
With the dismal state of public K-12 education, parents and students alike are desperate for options. Private schools, charters, vouchers, and homeschooling aside, online learning may present a viable alternative to...
Posted by: Anja Hartleb-Parson on February 25, 2010
We added a new topic page: Cost of College. Today the mantra is that everyone...
Posted by: Anja Hartleb-Parson on February 8, 2010