The state of the unions of the state
The annual swarm of strikes (and threatened strikes) called by public school unions arrived on schedule across the nation this...
Read More >School choice and sheer bad luck
This is the fourth post in our series on the Voucher Left. The hope to secure school choice for lower-income...
Read More >On choosing and not choosing
“I can; can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be.” – G.M. Hopkins, "Carrion Comfort" The Duke...
Read More >A tale of two Turkeys
The media report that strong-man President Erdogan of Turkey has decided that children whose parents cannot afford private school will...
Read More >Our school deportation problem
Orinda, Calif. is a rich and prosperous suburban school district neighboring my own home in Berkeley. My family and I...
Read More >The uncritical Core
Does the Common Core implicate school choice? The answer might be important one way or another in the national effort...
Read More >School choice in a nutshell
Proposals for government subsidy of the school choices of parents, in amounts tailored to family need, have attracted support across...
Read More >A little context for Al Shanker's "original charter school vision"
Again on Sunday, the pages of the New York Times managed to confuse the nature and history of school reform....
Read More >Soldiers and school choice
Long long ago I spent two years stationed at the Pentagon as a JAG officer. Early on I discovered that,...
Read More >Nothing more impersonal than an education system without school choice
In the New York Times of Aug. 17, David Kirp tells us “there is no substitute for the personal element”...
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