Tuthill: Al Shanker's education decentralization talk was disingenuous
Scott Kent’s recent redefinED post on Al Shanker’s New York Times column comparing our public education system to Soviet-style communism...
Read More >Less school regs, more school choice
Consumer choice and government regulation comprise the two components of educational accountability systems. In the areas of home-schooling and private...
Read More >More money for Florida education? What it needs is more customization
Florida’s constitution requires the state to make adequate provision for a uniform system of free public schools that allows students...
Read More >Customization can lead to eliminating school grades and better accountability
The state of Florida’s latest annual report on the performance of students receiving tax credit scholarships contained these facts: 22.9...
Read More >Customization is now arriving
Teaching customized to the developmental needs of each child has been the dream of K-12 educators for over a hundred...
Read More >Tuthill: Ownership leads to outcomes in public education
(Below is an edited version of a talk Step Up For Students President Doug Tuthill gave to the Florida Chamber...
Read More >School choice bookshelf: Emotions, Learning, and the Brain
Public education exists, in part, to promote healthy human development. Therefore, our efforts to improve public education should be informed...
Read More >What's driving conflicts over the future of public education
The public education system that was born during the industrial revolution of the nineteenth century is slowly, painfully being transformed....
Read More >Teachers unions evolved on magnet schools. Can they evolve on charters?
At a National Education Association convention in 1987, I was the floor manager for a new business item endorsing newly...
Read More >School choice and tribalism
William O. Douglas joined the US Supreme Court in 1939 and served until 1975. Soon after joining the Court, the...
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