Contrary to the suggestion of Kathleen Porter-Magee and Sol Stern at National Review Online the other day, you do not have to sport a tinfoil tricorn to believe Common Core curriculum and[...]
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Education · Liberty · Politics
Education in the U.S. … and How to Improve It
I delivered the following remarks on February 23, 2013 at the Eighth Annual Wisconsin Conservative Conference, Bluemound Gardens, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. Thank you for the introduction, thank you all for being[...]
Education · Podcast · Politics
Talking School Choice with Charter School Hall of Famer Ember Reichgott Junge
Heartland was honored to host Ember Reichgott Junge — a former Minnesota state senator and member of the state’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and a 2008 inductee to the National Charter School Hall of Fame[...]
Exorbitant Michigan Pensions Hurt Children, Teachers
Long after ramping up benefits radically during the pre-2008 economic growth period (and collecting lots of votes from unionized teachers), Michigan lawmakers are now reluctant to address the state’s imprudent,[...]
Decline of America’s Schools Isn’t Just Academic
(Cross-posted from American Liberty.) The decline of American public education, documented by a plethora of objective tests for decades, is so well known it requires no documentation here. What I[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Education · Science
The Road to Nowhere: The Higher Education Bubble and Liberal Arts Education
While the president’s October announcement of a plan to expedite Congress’s reduction of required payments on student loans from 15 percent of annual discretionary income to 10 percent might prove[...]
WSJ Notes Heartland’s Contributions to Parent Trigger
The Wall Street Journal is out with a video editorial discussing the Parent Trigger on it’s first birthday—and the Heartland Institute’s contribution to chronicling and explaining the parent empowerment law.[...]
Heartland’s Bruno Behrend Knocks ‘Em Dead at Tea Party Rally in Sheboygan
We couldn’t be prouder of our own Bruno Behrend, who recently drove up to a Tea Party Rally in Sheboygan, WI (otherwise known as “real America”) to talk about school[...]
Education · Liberty · Regulation
Centralization Conquers Common Core Standards – What a Shocker
There’s nothing as satisfying as letting someone else say “I told you so” – instead of having to do it yourself. So I will let Greg Forster, one of the[...]
Wash Examiner: Teachers Union Disavows Internal Memo Endorsing Deception of Parents
Thanks to The Washington Examiner for publishing my piece today bout how the teachers unions in Connecticut worked behind the scenes to neuter the Parent Trigger school reform. The AFT[...]
Growing Opportunities for Normal People to Enact Education Change
Call me an optimist (perhaps it’s my relative youth), but America’s independent streak is widening more than ever when it comes to school reform, and that hearkens positive prospects for[...]
All (Education) Politics Is Local
Peter Meyer at EdNext chronicles his must-read experience as a school board member for a small town in upstate New York. Recently, his board voted 4-3 to impose an extra[...]
S.C. Shying Away from Federal Education Funds
After pulling back from its adoption of Common Core standards, South Carolina has also decided to avoid federal education strings by declining to participate in the next round of Race[...]
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