Tag: School choice
Colorado’s Amendment 80 wants to make school choice ‘a right’ when...
Christopher Lubienski, Indiana University
In November, Colorado voters will decide whether the state’s constitution should be amended to specify...
Parents tend to choose their children’s schools based on their own...
Anna Rhodes, Rice University and Julia Szabo, Rice University
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic...
Why charter schools are not as ‘public’ as they claim to...
Kevin Welner, University of Colorado Boulder
Proponents of charter schools insist that they are public schools “open to all...
For parents of color, schooling at home can be an act...
Monisha Bajaj, University of San Francisco
My 6-year-old hates the British. To be more specific, the British Empire that ruled over up to a quarter...
School vouchers expand despite evidence of negative effects
Christopher Lubienski, Indiana University and Joel R Malin, Miami University
For the past couple of decades, proponents of vouchers for private schools have been pushing...
George H.W. Bush laid the foundation for education reform
Jack Schneider, University of Massachusetts Lowell
George H.W. Bush fulfilled his desire – articulated late in his 1988 campaign for president – to be “the...
Betsy DeVos has little to show after 2 years in office
Dustin Hornbeck, Miami University
Despite widespread fear that U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos would dismantle the public system of education, she has failed to accomplish...
DeVos speech shows contempt for the agency she heads
Mark Hlavacik, University of North Texas
When Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos spoke at the American Enterprise Institute on Jan. 16, she began by emphasizing...
EXPLORING NATURE
Stone tool discovery in China shows people in East Asia were...
Ben Marwick, University of Washington
New technologies today often involve electronic devices that are smaller and smarter than before....
