Education
Agriculture
Unraveling the Achievement Gap on Campus
For the first time ever, women outnumber men at all levels of higher education. More women than men apply, enroll, and graduate with bachelors and advanced degrees. The response from feminist groups has been drearily predictable. Female enrollment at some schools approaches 60 percent, a gap of 10 percent in ...
Education
School Choice Facts at Your Fingertips
This valuable resource includes data, trends, and research about the country’s 18 school voucher and tax-credit scholarship programs, including: In spite of the worst economic climate in decades, funding for school voucher and scholarship tax credit programs increased by $29 million this year, and student enrollment is up by ...
Education
“Spirit of Central Falls” Trumps Special Interests
Last week Central Falls, Rhode Island, School Superintendent Frances Gallo fired her entire high-school teaching staff when they refused to implement essential reforms to turn around the failing school. Little did Dr. Gallo know that hers would be the pink slips shot round the world-beginning with a billboard in the ...
Education
Early Graduation is a Student-Centered Option
Already, 21 states allow early graduation, according to the Education Commission of the States. And among the other 29, it’s not entirely clear whether state law actually prohibits it. Thirty-five states allow students to finish high school based on mastering proficiency standards in state tests rather than satisfying course credit ...
Education
Will Education Standards Really Help Failing Schools?
During a speech to the National Governors Association, President Obama stated: I want to commend all of you for acting collectively through the National Governors Association to develop common standards that will better position our students for success.and today, Im announcing steps to encourage and support all states to transition ...
Common Core
States Should Look, Not Leap When it Comes to National Standards
In order to qualify for federal Title I funds, states may now have to sign on to the Common Core State Standard Initiative (CCSSI). Yet the Pioneer Institute and Pacific Research Institute study, Why Race to the Middle, found that: the process for developing national standards was flawed; ...
Commentary
Milwaukee School Choice Program Sets Example for California, Nation
Low-income Milwaukee students using vouchers to attend independent schools have a graduation rate 18 percent higher than students in Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS), according to Graduation Rates for Choice and Public School Students in Milwaukee, 2003-2008, a new report by John Robert Warren of the University of Minnesota. California would ...
Common Core
Why Race to the Middle?
Why Race to the Middle? First-Class State Standards Are Better than Third-Class National Standards, jointly published today by Pioneer Institute in Massachusetts and Pacific Research Institute (PRI) in California, is authored by Zeev Wurman, a Silicon Valley executive active in developing Californias standards and assessments in the mid-1990s, and Dr. ...
Common Core
Why Race to the Middle?
Read PDF Study Executive Summary The case for national standards rests on more than the need to equalize academic expectations for all students by remedying the uneven and often deplorable quality of most state standards and tests. The case also rests on the urgent need to increase academic achievement for ...
California
Why Race to the Middle? Massachusetts and California K-12 State Standards Far Exceed National Standards Drafts
BOSTON/SAN FRANCISCO A day after President Obama and Secretary of Education Duncan laid out an aggressive plan to expand federal control over K-12 academic standards at the National Governors Association (NGA) winter meetings, a new report criticizes the national standards process as opaque and the federal push harmful not ...
Unraveling the Achievement Gap on Campus
For the first time ever, women outnumber men at all levels of higher education. More women than men apply, enroll, and graduate with bachelors and advanced degrees. The response from feminist groups has been drearily predictable. Female enrollment at some schools approaches 60 percent, a gap of 10 percent in ...
School Choice Facts at Your Fingertips
This valuable resource includes data, trends, and research about the country’s 18 school voucher and tax-credit scholarship programs, including: In spite of the worst economic climate in decades, funding for school voucher and scholarship tax credit programs increased by $29 million this year, and student enrollment is up by ...
“Spirit of Central Falls” Trumps Special Interests
Last week Central Falls, Rhode Island, School Superintendent Frances Gallo fired her entire high-school teaching staff when they refused to implement essential reforms to turn around the failing school. Little did Dr. Gallo know that hers would be the pink slips shot round the world-beginning with a billboard in the ...
Early Graduation is a Student-Centered Option
Already, 21 states allow early graduation, according to the Education Commission of the States. And among the other 29, it’s not entirely clear whether state law actually prohibits it. Thirty-five states allow students to finish high school based on mastering proficiency standards in state tests rather than satisfying course credit ...
Will Education Standards Really Help Failing Schools?
During a speech to the National Governors Association, President Obama stated: I want to commend all of you for acting collectively through the National Governors Association to develop common standards that will better position our students for success.and today, Im announcing steps to encourage and support all states to transition ...
States Should Look, Not Leap When it Comes to National Standards
In order to qualify for federal Title I funds, states may now have to sign on to the Common Core State Standard Initiative (CCSSI). Yet the Pioneer Institute and Pacific Research Institute study, Why Race to the Middle, found that: the process for developing national standards was flawed; ...
Milwaukee School Choice Program Sets Example for California, Nation
Low-income Milwaukee students using vouchers to attend independent schools have a graduation rate 18 percent higher than students in Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS), according to Graduation Rates for Choice and Public School Students in Milwaukee, 2003-2008, a new report by John Robert Warren of the University of Minnesota. California would ...
Why Race to the Middle?
Why Race to the Middle? First-Class State Standards Are Better than Third-Class National Standards, jointly published today by Pioneer Institute in Massachusetts and Pacific Research Institute (PRI) in California, is authored by Zeev Wurman, a Silicon Valley executive active in developing Californias standards and assessments in the mid-1990s, and Dr. ...
Why Race to the Middle?
Read PDF Study Executive Summary The case for national standards rests on more than the need to equalize academic expectations for all students by remedying the uneven and often deplorable quality of most state standards and tests. The case also rests on the urgent need to increase academic achievement for ...
Why Race to the Middle? Massachusetts and California K-12 State Standards Far Exceed National Standards Drafts
BOSTON/SAN FRANCISCO A day after President Obama and Secretary of Education Duncan laid out an aggressive plan to expand federal control over K-12 academic standards at the National Governors Association (NGA) winter meetings, a new report criticizes the national standards process as opaque and the federal push harmful not ...
