Education Reform

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

Education Reform
Better than no options at all
Better than no options at all By Martin Morse Wooster Senior Fellow, Capital Research Center (originally posted at Philanthropy Daily) Like most professions, educators love to focus on projects…
by CRC Staff on September 9, 2016

Education Reform
On the global expansion of private schools
On the global expansion of private schools By Martin Morse Wooster Senior Fellow, Capital Research Center (originally posted at Philanthropy Daily) Before I wrote about philanthropy, I wrote about…
by CRC Staff on April 18, 2016

Education Reform
More disrespect for the poor from the Left
Over at PhilanthropyDaily.com, I have another piece on the Left’s curious disrespect for the poor. In this case, I’m puzzled: Why doesn’t the Left trust the poor to…
by Scott Walter on January 28, 2014