Education Reform

Education Reform
There Is Hope for Education
Expanding school choice, scrutiny of curriculum containing critical race theory, parental rights legislation, academic transparency laws, banning sexually explicit books from school libraries and classrooms—Randi Weingarten, president of the American…
by Kali Fontanilla on May 9, 2023

Education Reform
Goodbye to Bad Education
The Hamilton Southeastern School District, which sits just north and to the west of Indianapolis, decided in early March they’d rather eat $80k on a contract for school surveys purported…
by Sarah Lee on April 24, 2023

Education Reform
The Crisis of Exploitation in the Classroom: The Past Is Prologue
Education is the secret to happiness, comfort, and prosperity. Ignorance is the bedfellow of misery, poverty, and hardship. But education is missing in too many communities. Why? A combination of…
by Armstrong Williams on February 23, 2023

Education Reform
The Crisis of Exploitation in the Classroom: Educational Malfeasance
It is the role of schools and our teachers to inculcate critical thinking and eschew indoctrination. Unfortunately, our teachers are underpaid and overworked and overstressed and underappreciated. Administrators often look…
by Armstrong Williams on February 23, 2023

Education Reform
The Crisis of Exploitation in the Classroom: Teachers’ Unions
Teachers’ unions are to the education of students what a ball and chain are to a swimmer. Their counter-educational mission is the collective maximization of pay and benefits coupled with…
by Armstrong Williams on February 23, 2023

Education Reform
The Crisis of Exploitation in the Classroom: Growing School Competition
The abysmal state of public-school education controlled by teachers’ unions has given birth to private and charter schools as competitive alternatives for ambitious and industrious parents and students. That is…
by Armstrong Williams on February 23, 2023

Education Reform
Catharsis Comes for the Education Monopoly
This School Choice Week—which runs through Friday, January 28—many activists are celebrating 2021 as the “year of school choice” and hailing advances that charter schools, private school subsidies, and other…
by Michael Watson on January 28, 2022

Education Reform, Philanthropy
The Benefits of a Philanthropic “Impostor Syndrome”
In mid-December, Education Week’s “Rick Hess Straight Up” blog featured an as-usual interesting post by Hess, “Three Cheers for Impostor Syndrome.” A resident scholar and director of education-policy studies…
by Michael E. Hartmann on January 4, 2018

Education Reform
School choice in light of Betsy DeVos’ confirmation
This article was originally posted at Philanthropy Daily. In one of his more surprising moves, president-elect Trump has nominated philanthropist Betsy DeVos to be education secretary. Of course,…
by Martin Morse Wooster† on January 6, 2017

Education Reform
The Perpetually Outraged
This article was originally posted at Philanthropy Daily.   Look at the political struggles on campuses today, and a basic question arises: why are today’s college students so…
by Martin Morse Wooster† on November 17, 2016