Private Schools Provide Educational Choice—For Now
Private schools are holding their ground against surging competition and scared regulators.
Private schools are holding their ground against surging competition and scared regulators.
Data from North Carolina, Florida, and Arizona show how school choice programs take care of students who would otherwise be neglected.
Stossel in the Classroom offers teachers free videos.
National School Choice Week, an annual event designed to promote educational options for K-12 students and parents, is underway.
Lisa Snell interviews Johns Hopkins' Ashley Berner, author of Pluralism and American Public Education: No One Way to School.
Once again, politicians in the Empire State want to leave nowhere to hide from their control.
The latest trial balloon from the perennial White House Hamlet contains more lead than the paint of a New York public school.
Until we can get government entirely out of education, we'll have to keep fighting to preserve and expand our ability to choose what's right for our kids.
"I think if a student is really unsettled and anxious because of it you should probably make it something less stressful."
Those tykes are worth big bucks to institutional educators, so if you don't hand 'em over, you might be slapped with fines or even incarceration.
Both right and left decry implicit government discrimination on the basis of religion when it targets groups they sympathize with. But both are all too ready to turn a blind eye in other cases.
Opponents of charter schools often claim that school choice will segregate K-12 education. Sumter County, Alabama proves them wrong.
These days, kids are heading back to increasingly varied learning experiences that might or might not include anything recognizable as a traditional school.
Reading is fundamental, but it's not a fundamental right.
Rising benefits costs and a bloated administration is putting Los Angeles' schools deep in the red.
Seeing your kids held hostage in a battle between government factions is a great incentive to look for alternatives.
Trump's secretary of education says she's "undeterred."
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos might rescind Obama-era guidance on school discipline.
Top public school officials will risk their careers to have school choice. Maybe they should let everyone else have it too.
The education establishment hates them.
School choice and cultural pressure are better than government mandates.
The Larry Nassar sex abuse scandal brings new leadership and old complaints.
"The Case Against Education" author and economist says "if all we're trying to do is prepare people for a job, why not prepare them with a *job*?"
It's way past time that we dump factory-model schools for more individualized K-12 programs.
School choice is about extending the privileges of the upper middle class to everyone else.
We're spending more than double what we used to spend per pupil with no improvement on tests for high school seniors.
Officials tasked with setting up charter school rules are imposing onerous regulations instead.
"If all we're trying to do is prepare people for a job, why not prepare them with a job?"
You get one guess and if you can't figure out, go back to first grade.
Despite being a finalist for the National Book Awards, Democracy in Chains is fatally flawed history.
More school choice, and fewer Title IX kangaroo courts, would actually help black students.
Public schools cherry-picking students, something they once accused charters of doing.
The NAACP has filed an appeal to stop the secession, on the grounds that race was an underlying factor in creating the new school district.
It's not racist to want access to school choice. It's racist to deny it.
In South Korea, the best teachers are paid like star athletes. Why can't U.S. schools reward talent?
The public education system is failing our kids. Here's how to fix it.
Studies show students in schools of choice have more respect for the rights of people they don't like.
Tell it to all the minority children in charter schools across the country.
The culture war can't take a potty break.
ChoiceMedia's Bob Bowdon vs. Teachers College's Samuel Abrams in New York City last night.
"Parents should have the choice to...redirect the taxpayer tuition money for their children to other approved schools or educational options."
Betsy DeVos's modest insurgency against failing public schools should be applauded.
Choice advocates win in school board race in second largest district in country.
School board election winner wants to see lessons of successful charters replicated within district.
The educational establishment is so brain-dead the most basic ideas rarely get a hearing.
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