Bruno Behrend

In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, we listen in as Heartland Senior Fellow Bruno Behrend joins the Dave Elswick show to discuss the latest on Common Core. Behrend and Elswick talk about the the popular perceptions of common core and public education and why they are not the solution to our educational problems.

Last Sunday’s New York Times had an article highlighting the implementation of the new teacher evaluation system being put in place in Tennessee. The system is part of the Race-to-the-Top…

Let me introduce you to John Robb, fighter pilot, entrepreneur, author, blogger, etc. etc. etc. This is the kind of guy that gives even successful people an inferiority complex. His…

I’ve probably come across Walter Russell Mead before, but I’ve never made his posts at American Interest a regular stop. I will now. One of his latest post lays out…

I was graciously given 6 minutes to defend educational freedom on a recent appearance on WPWR’s (Channel 50) “Perspective” program. The discussion was around a voucher bill, along with other…

You have to admire a guy who simply knows what needs to be done and does it. It’s even better that he’s gutsy enough to double-down in the midst of…

I’ve got to weigh in against Heartland’s Marc Oestreich in his post about public sector unions. (This is a free-wheeling libertarian think tank. We’re bound to disagree.) In the interest…

In a post sure to make our friends at the Cato Institute heads’ explode, I’d like to take this opportunity to say that the events in Egypt and Tunisia are…

The folks over at Powerline Blog have an insightful post on the mindset of our current president.  It comes by way of  Bobby Jindal’s book, “Leadership and Crisis,” where Jindal…

What if we had REAL neighborhood schools? How can there be a “neighborhood school” when the entire public apparatus is run by a conglomerate of protected (essentially “privatized”) interests who churn bonds, taxes, and contracts for their own financial gain?

When a near-certain Presidential candidate starts talking about getting rid of public unions, it’s time to start thinking about becoming an optimist. Government Unions vs. Taxpayers. (TIM PAWLENTY, 12/12/10, WSJ)…

I’ve been saying that that if our education system – the Government Education Complex – falls, it will fall quickly. It will appear unassailable up until it simply collapses of its own weight, expense, and internal contradictions. I think that is starting to happen, and I think the Parent Trigger is an idea that will accelerate that process. That is why it deserves support.

As someone involved in the education reform movement, I hate to criticize Michelle Rhee.  That said, if you want to bring about a better education system, you have to identify…