Robert Holland
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State by state, CSAs could build on the pioneering breakthrough in school choice that Virginia Walden Ford and others achieved 15 years ago with the Opportunity Scholarships in the federal city.
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School Choice Week showcases the interest in school choice and pent-up demand for more of it. Whether supply meets that demand will depend in part on decisions in the political and legal realms.
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Education
Shame on School Choice for Helping Kids in Too Many Ways!
by Robert Holland October 22, 2019Now that summer has ended and classrooms have opened across the country, a spotlight shines on the latest research showing the value of parents being able to choose the best education for their children.
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Education
Beneficial Choice Entails More Than ‘Mental Health Days’
by Robert Holland October 9, 2019Instead of mental health days, Oregon should try mental health school transfers.
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Other than Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) weaponizing the failed desegregation relic of mandatory busing to bludgeon frontrunner Joe Biden, the Democrats said little about their vision for transforming education in their first two rounds of presidential nomination debates.
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EducationFeatured
This Little Engine Delivers Results for DC Children
by Robert Holland August 13, 2019Over the past 15 years, the Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP) has become the Little Engine That Could among school choice programs in the United States.
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Education
School Safety Must be a Top Priority — Here’s What Parents Can Do
by Robert Holland June 14, 2019Debates continue to rage over the goals of education and methods used to achieve them.
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Uncategorized
Here Is a Way Strike-Stricken Parents Could Find Reliable Education Providers
by Robert Holland June 13, 2019It is about time someone in authority spoke up for parents and children who are the victim of teachers showcasing their demands by shirking their duties.
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EducationFeatured
Ed-Schools and Multiculturalists Exhibit Burnin’ Love for Leftist Indoctrination
by Robert Holland May 8, 2019One of the criticisms teachers unions and other government-schooling factotums level against private schools that accept voucher students is that in many cases they hire teachers who are not state-certified or licensed.
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“Power to the education establishment!” — it could become the rallying cry for Democrats during their 2020 presidential nominating convention in Milwaukee.
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After deliberating for two years, a national commission is pushing to implement social-emotional learning (SEL) in all government schools.
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Education
Entrepreneurs Seek to Disrupt College Admissions Testing—Will Knowledge or Critical Thinking Model Prevail?
by Robert Holland February 14, 2019Starting a company from scratch that’s able to compete with the long-entrenched SAT and ACT in the college-entrance testing business sounds like an impossible dream.
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Education
A Simple Formula to Increase Learning: Read, Write, Read More, Write More
by Robert Holland December 15, 2018The never-ending quest for magic formulae that universally educate all children brings to mind this lyrical lament from a 1980 Johnny Lee country tune: “I was lookin’ for love in all the wrong places.”