How to Teach Your Kids During the Coronavirus Pandemic: Try 'Unschooling'
Education researcher Kerry McDonald sees this crisis as an opportunity to experiment with self-directed learning.
School Choice
Why Are Public Schools Fighting To Keep Home School Kids Off Their Teams?
In West Virginia, advocates have been fighting to pass the Tim Tebow Act since 2011. They're on the verge of scoring a partial legislative victory.
Bloomberg Supports Charter Schools, Deeply Vexes Sanders and Warren
Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders correctly diagnose the problem, but fail to provide an adequate solution.
AOC Admits She Got Her Goddaughter Into a Bronx Charter School
The democratic socialist congresswoman has lamented that the public-school system hinges on zip codes.
President Trump, Betsy DeVos Want To Reduce the Education Department's Size and Power
It's a solid budget proposal—too bad it won't go anywhere.
Trump: 'No Parent Should Be Forced To Send Their Child to a Failing Government School'
In his State of the Union address, the president promised to give an opportunity scholarship to a specific child who needed one.
Elizabeth Warren Is a Teachers Union Pet
Despite costing less to educate, Boston's charter students significantly outperform their peers in both reading and math. So why is Warren still opposed?
Bureaucrats Are Trying to 'Control' School Choice
Administrators are squeezing out charters in the name of desegregation. The results: Parents are upset, enrollment is declining, and the schools are no more integrated than before.
Biased Textbooks Are Just Part of the Public School Curriculum Wars
To reduce conflict over classroom lessons, let people choose their kids’ education.
School Choice Opponents Need To Stop Gaslighting Parents
Education activist Andrew Campanella on the moral perversity of school-choice critics.
Watch Elizabeth Warren Lie About Her Son's Private School Education
Political hypocrisy on school choice needs to be exposed, says Reason Foundation's Corey DeAngelis.
Sibling Grammy Winners Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell Praise Homeschooling
"I've never been to school. I grew up homeschooled, stayed homeschooled, never was not homeschooled."
We Chose Our Child's School. More Parents Should Be Given That Choice for Their Kids
It’s good to be able to pick an education that suits your kid instead of one crafted by bureaucrats.
Seattle's School System Wants to Dismantle Its Gifted Programs. This Is Why School Choice Matters.
When educators don't see their parents and students as customers, they make some really stupid decisions.
Pennsylvania Bill Would Toss 35,000 Kids Out of Their Cyber Charter Schools
"They're trying to force us to put our children in the district school," says Stefaine D’Amico, whose three kids attend online classes that could be abolished. "That's not fair."
The Story Behind Miss Virginia Exemplifies The Moral Case for School Choice
As a black child growing up in Arkansas, Virginia Walden Ford fought her way into segregated schools. As an adult, she fought to get her son out of failing public schools.
The Montana Blaine Amendment Case and the Need for a Consistent Approach to Discrimination on the Basis of Religion
Conservatives want courts to consider the governments' bigoted motives in enacting anti-Catholic Blaine amendments, but not when it comes to Trump's travel ban. Liberals tend to be inconsistent in the opposite way.
The Supreme Court Weighs School Choice and Religious Liberty
What’s at stake in Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue
Families Ask the Supreme Court to Stop Discrimination Against Religious Schools
Kendra Espinoza's daughters rely on a state-supported scholarship program to attend the school of their choice.
Cory Booker, Who Urged Democratic Unity, Drops Out of Presidential Race
The New Jersey senator was also willing to buck the establishment at key moments.
Espinoza School Choice Case and Discrimination Against Religion
A response to a query of mine, from David Hodges of the Institute for Justice (who are plaintiff's lawyers).
Elizabeth Warren Fails Her Own Public Education Purity Test
She fights against school choice while her kid and grandkids go to private school.
Elizabeth Warren Would Rather Make You Fix Your Terrible Public School Than Let You Send Your Kid to a Charter School
"You don't like the building? You think it's old and decaying? Then get out there and push to get a new one," she said.
Elizabeth Warren's School Choice Blunder
Elizabeth Warren was so "#PublicSchoolProud" that she sent her son to expensive private schools for the majority of his K-12 education.
Cory Booker Pushes for Greater Democratic Support for Charter Schools
Less pandering to education unions; more choices for parents.
Canceling Halloween Is the Cruelest Thing To Do to Kids
Such actions remind kids that government authority is stupid, arbitrary, and worth fighting at every opportunity.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Accidentally Makes the Case for School Choice
It’s far from clear how any of the reforms championed by AOC and Bernie will truly challenge the public education status quo.
Seattle Public Schools Will Start Teaching That Math Is Oppressive
A new ethnic studies curriculum will teach students that "ancient mathematical knowledge has been appropriated by Western culture."
The Movie Miss Virginia Powerfully Dramatizes the Urgent Need for School Choice
Virginia Walden Ford talks about her role in integrating schools in the 1960s and leading a movement to escape failing public schools four decades later.
Charter Schools Don't Cater To All Parents. Robert Pondiscio Explains Why That's Good.
How the Other Half Learns reveals how Success challenges supporters and opponents of education reform.
Is It 'Morally Disturbing' When Charter Schools Skim Highly Motivated Families?
Robert Pondiscio's provocative new book, How the Other Half Learns, challenges supporters and opponents of education reform.
Even Social Engineers Don't Want Their Kids Used as Demographic Pawns
The logic behind school busing is back. And so is flight from government-operated schools.
The Supreme Court's Next Big School Choice Case
What’s at stake in Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue.
Elizabeth Warren: 'Money for Public Schools Should Stay in Public Schools.'
Most Democrats agreed, though Andrew Yang argued that it made more sense to fund families directly.
Charter Schools vs. the Education Monopoly
“If I choose for my child to go to a charter school, then that's where my taxes should go!"
Stossel: Let Charter Schools Teach
Governments limit charter schools, even though charters often do better than government-run schools.
Americans Voice Growing Support for School Choice
People also want more funds for public schools, but support drops when they're informed of current expenditures.
School Choice Could Have Stopped Battle Over Holocaust-Denial at a Florida High School
We wouldn’t have to squabble over control of shared institutions if we were free to pick the right schools for our kids.
'Unschooling' Is the Ultimate Laissez-Faire Version of School Choice. But Can Your Kids Teach Themselves How To Read and Do Math?
Author Kerry McDonald explains why her kids flourish outside of conventional classrooms—and why yours might too.
Some People Are Buying Their Way Into Top Public Schools. That's Not How School Choice Should Work
Every kid deserves choice.
After L.A. Teachers' Strike, California Task Force Recommends Strict Restrictions on Charter Schools
Union leaders made charters a major point of contention during the January protests.
Booker Expresses Tepid Support for Charter Schools While Sanders Seeks To Stifle Them
Sen. Cory Booker's comments were in response to Sen. Bernie Sanders' public education plan, which targets charter schools.
Government Control Turns Schools into Partisan Battlegrounds
End the curriculum wars by letting families choose education options that work for them.
Florida Men Screw Up Less Than Usual
The Florida Legislature had a heck of a week, passing everything from a major school choice program (yay!) to restricting the voting rights of felons (boo!).
Achievement Gap Between Rich and Poor Public School Students Unchanged Over 50 Years
Spending four times more in real dollars per pupil doesn't compensate for low-quality teaching.
