No, I’m not talking about the unions bringing down what used to be the biggest company in the United States, GM, but about how unions harm our public education system:
A $13.2 million, five-year grant from the National Math and Science Initiative, designed to add new Advanced Placement teachers, courses and exams for thousands of Washington […]
Archive for the 'Vouchers' Category
May8th2008
Apr18th2008
Milton Friedman On Race, Poverty And Government
Published by in Capitalism, Chicanoism, Discrimination, Economics, Education, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues), Minimum Wage, ModernPolitics, Myths, Poverty, Vouchers and affirmative action. 1 CommentYou need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video
From an old speech but just as relevant today as it was then.
Mar10th2008
The New York Sun reports:
The candidate who looks strongest on the education issue at the moment is Senator McCain. It hasn’t escaped the Arizona Republican, apparently, that the daughters of both Senator Clinton and Obama attended elite private schools of the kind that can be accessed by pupils from ordinary families only where there are […]
Mar7th2008
Parents Want Choice
Published by in Education, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and Vouchers. 3 CommentsSchool choice that is.
“100 Texan families camped outside a charter school for two days because parents want to enroll their kids in River Oaks rather than their traditional public school”. LibertyIsForMe has more here.
Feb26th2008
Will vouchers help improve non-voucher schools as well? Opponents of vouchers say no, but a recent study says yes:
…we find that schools that received a grade of “F” in summer 2002 immediately improved the test scores of the next cohort of students, and that these test score improvements were not transitory, but rather remained in […]
Feb20th2008
Education Revolt In Watts
Published by in Economics, Education, General, Unions and Vouchers. 1 CommentThere is no area in more desperate need of school choice than the ghettos of the United States. With high levels of gangs, drugs, and crime, just basic security concerns are enough to push parents to seek alternative venues. Yet even in these dire circumstances, the teachers union continues to stand in the way of […]
Feb13th2008
Quote Of The Day
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, Education, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and Vouchers. 8 Comments“But there seems to be little political pressure for such reforms. The costs of the social disorders that afflict poor blacks are incurred mainly by poor blacks themselves, and poor blacks do not vote very much. Moreover, blacks support the Democratic Party so overwhelmingly that Democrat politicians have little incentive to expend their necessarily limited […]
Jan14th2008
“I have believed for a while now that an important reason that suburban public schools outperform urban public schools is that suburban public schools have to keep the parents happier because of the competition from private schools. That is, in a rich suburban neighborhood, you get excellent public school, partly because the parents are rich […]
Jan10th2008
Hispanic CREO Has A Blog!
Published by in Education, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and Vouchers. 2 CommentsOne of my favorite charity organizations is Hispanic CREO, short for the Hispanic Council for Reform and Educational Options. The organization was founded “to address the crisis in Latino education by empowering Latino families with parental choice in education. By creating coalitions with parents, schools, faith-based organizations, advocates and like-minded groups, Hispanic CREO has been […]
Jan8th2008
Caroline Hoxby, professor of economics at Harvard University and big supporter of school vouchers gives a fascinating talk on Charter Schools and the promising impact they have on our education system - especially on poor inner city neighborhoods.
Video found via FORA tv here.
Link via Stuart Buck.
Jan3rd2008
From a recent study on the Florida voucher program:
We analyze the impact of the accountability system on Florida’s students and schools using a three-part analysis. First, we estimate the effect of the accountability system and the threat of becoming voucher eligible on student test score performance, both in the short-run and in the longer term. […]
Dec5th2007
“Not until about 15 percent of a school district’s children are in charter schools do those schools exert pressure to change the way the district functions. Of this city’s 1,453 public schools, only 61 are charters. They serve 19,000 of the 1.1 million public school students — 1.7 percent. Andy Smarick, writing in Education Next, […]
Dec3rd2007
“A 2006 nationwide survey conducted by the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement found that 56% of young people ages 15 to 25 did not know that only citizens can vote in the United States. Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor exclaims, “Today, only a little more than one-third of […]
Nov27th2007
The Importance Of Early Education And School Choice’s Part
Published by in Economics, Education, General, Inequality and Vouchers. 0 Comments“Dutch parents can indeed choose their children’s school. The schools are good, even though the country spends less on education than the OECD average. And, crucially, Dutch schools are selective - something that Britain supposedly lost when it abolished most grammar schools in the 1960s and 1970s. Whereas British kids used to be selected for […]
Nov19th2007
“Opposing school vouchers is, for basically every single person who does so, a completely costless belief. You get the pleasure of “supporting public education”; [while] someone else’s kid, whom you will thankfully never meet, loses their future.” –Megan McArdle
Nov17th2007
“. . as far as test scores improving and such, it seems that people who focus on that exclusively might be bewildered by why inner city parents like the voucher school a lot better than the public school. Even if their child’s chance of going to the state university is not increased by his new […]
