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Heartland Daily Podcast: Research on School Vouchers

  • by Alexandra Shanahan
  • May 1, 2013

Heartland‘s Joy Pullman speaks with Greg Forster,  Senior Fellow at the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice. Opponents frequently claim that school choice does not benefit participants, it hurts public schools, costs[...]

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Heartland’s Joe Bast on Running a Think Tank in the Information Age

  • by Alexandra Shanahan
  • April 25, 2013

Brent Hamachek and Tom Kuchan of Segueway Solutions invited President and CEO of The Heartland Institute, Joe Bast, to speak on their radio show, “Segueway to Success.” They talk about Heartland’s mission, how Heartland[...]

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Parent Trigger Shifts the Balance

  • by Joy Pullmann
  • February 7, 2013

The nation’s third invoking of a Parent Trigger, in Los Angeles, disproves the charges of many critics of the 2010 California law. Based on the first two attempts of parents[...]

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VID: Foundation for Excellence School Grading System

  • by Jim Lakely
  • January 15, 2013

Our friends at the Foundation for Excellence in Education have just released the first in a series of new, animated policy videos, starting with A-F school grading. Everyone knows the[...]

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Rahm Emanuel Needs to Pull ‘Mayor Trigger’

  • by Joy Pullmann
  • November 23, 2012

Critics of the Parent Trigger for school reform charge it’s a new idea with a short track record. But the concept seems to be Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s battle plan[...]

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Milwaukee Public Schools Ditch Letter Grades, Earns an ‘F’

  • by Joy Pullmann
  • November 22, 2012

[First published in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.] Milwaukee Public Schools plans to expand districtwide a pilot program in which schools ditch traditional letter grades. Instead of A, B, C, D and[...]

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Citizens Without Civics?

  • by Katie Brunk
  • August 3, 2012

In the United States, every citizen is called to be a scientist of sorts, testing out the hypothesis that a constitutional democracy can survive as a viable government. As the[...]

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WSJ Notes Heartland’s Contributions to Parent Trigger

  • by Joy Pullmann
  • November 18, 2011

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.[...]

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Heartland’s Herb Walberg on ‘Free Markets with Dr. Mike Beitler’

  • by Jim Lakely
  • September 27, 2011

The Heartland Institute’s Herb Walberg, who is also the chairman of Heartland’s board of directors, was a guest on “Free Markets with Dr. Mike Beitler” on the Voice America network[...]

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Heartland’s Bruno Behrend Knocks ‘Em Dead at Tea Party Rally in Sheboygan

  • by Jim Lakely
  • September 13, 2011

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[...]

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Time to Share that Voucher Love

  • by Joy Pullmann
  • September 1, 2011

The massive success of voucher program expansion by intrepid legislators this past year in Indiana, Wisconsin, and Ohio has commentators in nearby states begging their own legislators to share the[...]

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Teachers Union Generated Anti-Rhee Website

  • by Joy Pullmann
  • August 29, 2011

Politico has tracked the IP address of a website attacking former D.C. schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee to the American Federation of Teachers. The site, which refers to Rhee as “the[...]

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Heartland’s Joe Bast Talks Taxpayers’ Savings Grants on WallBuilders

  • by Jim Lakely
  • June 14, 2011

Heartland Institute President Joseph L. Bast was on “Wall Builders” with Rick Green Monday talking about the Taxpayers’ Savings Grants in Texas. As usual, Joe knocked it out of the[...]

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The NAACP’s Irrelevance to the Next Civil Rights Battle: Good Schools for Poor Kids

  • by Joy Pullmann
  • June 6, 2011

The Wall Street Journal reports on thousands of black Harlem parents rallying against…the NAACP. Why? Because the NAACP has joined a lawsuit with the local teachers union, the United Federation[...]

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Governors vs. Legislatures on School Reform

  • by Joy Pullmann
  • June 3, 2011

In several states—Ohio, Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan—new Republican majorities through both statehouse chambers and the governorships have created momentum for proposing and enacting education reforms previously impossible. Other states, however, have[...]

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