Betsy DeVos
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School choice would give families more relief from the bullying/harassing form of violence than a whole battalion of school resource officers ever could.
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Harvard’s scandalous treatment of Asian Americans cannot be allowed to stand.
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And it means overturning the Obama administration’s power grab and misguided surrender.
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Education
‘Baby PISA’ Is in the Nursery—But Hold Off on Sending the Cigars and Flowers
by Robert Holland February 21, 2018Baby PISA has arrived. Are you ready, folks in the neighborhood? Do you have any earthly idea what this newborn may presage for child rearing and society in general?
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Washington should spare school choice its suffocating embrace.
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Education
Should Report Cards Impersonally Judge Students’ Personal Qualities?
by Robert Holland July 11, 2017When they have the power to do so, parents choose a child’s school on the basis of such varied criteria as safety, discipline, moral values, curriculum, and the availability of extracurricular opportunities.
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President Donald Trump may receive little or no credit anytime soon from within the public-education establishment for potentially easing the dead weight of federal mandates from the pursuit of learning in classrooms across the country.
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The Obama administration was fond of proclaiming that high-school graduation rates hit record highs during its tenure. A new report shows that those numbers don’t mean much.
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Betsy DeVos survived a Senate confirmation process made bitter because of the opposition of the teachers unions, which fear that she can parlay her advocacy of school choice into much bigger gains for choice in her powerful new position.
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Education
The Left Didn’t Groove to the Beat of School Choice Week
by Robert Holland February 10, 2017The record-breaking numbers for the seventh annual National School Choice Week (NSCW), which wrapped up January 28, were stunning.
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EducationFeatured
Teachers Unions Know School Choice Would Be A National Game-Changer
by Teresa Mull January 24, 2017The National Education Association (NEA), the nation’s largest labor union, sent a mass e-mail last week urging supports to “Tell your senators: Vote NO on Betsy DeVos.”
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The morning after the Senate Committee held a confirmation hearing for Betsy DeVos, a more important development on the choice front came from down Florida way.
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Education
Restoring Educational Choice Means Ditching The Department Of Education’s Burdensome Regulations
by Robert Holland January 6, 2017For the Feds in the U.S. Education Department, ‘flexibility’ means there’s nothing left to lose.