Other people’s money to hire teachers (and administrators)
Vice President Joe Biden went to York, Pennsylvania to sell the teacher stimulus to fourth graders, notes Mark Steyn. Biden told the kids that York is broke, but the federal government can send money...
View ArticleReform School: What’s the federal role?
Jay Greene, a University of Arkansas professor of education reform, and Joe Williams, director of Democrats for Education Reform, discuss the federal role in education on Reform School, a new PBS...
View ArticleDo we want the feds to run our schools?
Without discussion or debate, the U.S. education system is being nationalized, writes Marc Tucker, who heads the National Center on Education and the Economy, in the Los Angeles Times. Historically,...
View ArticleConservatives can like the Common Core
Conservatives should support the Common Core standards, write Kathleen Porter-Magee and Sol Stern, who describe themselves as “education scholars at two right-of-center think tanks” (Fordham and the...
View ArticleWhy there’s a Common Core backlash
In response to a conservative defense of Common Core Standards, Heritage fellow Lindsey M. Burke describes the conservative backlash on National Review Online. The federal government has spent billions...
View ArticleAccountability light and lighter
Sen. Tom Harkin and the Democrats have proposed a new version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (aka No Child Left Behind). So have Sen. Lamar Alexander the the Republicans. Both “move away...
View ArticleJindal and the irony of local control
Governor Jindal is determined to pull Louisiana out of the Common Core. He wants “Louisiana standards and a Louisiana test” for Louisiana kids. But here’s the rub: Louisiana’s top education officials...
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Promises, ineptitude and overreach
Race to the Top was a loser, writes Rick Hess on the fifth anniversary of the Obama administration’s $4.35 billion education competition. RTTT has become “a monument to paper promises, bureaucratic...
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Poll: 60% oppose Common Core
Sixty percent of Americans now oppose the Common Core, fearing that the standards will limit teachers’ flexibility to teach what they think is best, according to the annual PDK/Gallup poll. Last year,...
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Sanders: “Free” and federalized higher ed
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination. State colleges and universities should be tuition free, says Bernie Sanders. “In exchange for billions of new taxpayer...
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A new ESEA?
The long-delayed revision of No Child Behind (aka the Elementary and Secondary Education Act or ESEA) might actually happen this year. Or not. A conference committee will try to reconcile a bipartisan...
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Instead of the Core, ‘competitive federalism’
Common Core standards violate three laws barring federal direction, supervision or control over curricula or instruction, concludes Bill Evers in Federal Overreach and Common Core, a new Pioneer...
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Clinton and Trump on education
Education Week’s graphics summarize where Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump stand on education. Rick Hess thinks President Trump would be Barack Obama’s “spiritual heir.” And not in a good way. Trump’s...
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