education reform

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,…

(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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

Jay P. Greene has written a post on his blog today that should, if there were any justice, be inscribed on letters of gold blazoned across the sky.  But since…

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…

I just finished a conversation with Indiana House Speaker Brian Bosma on the state’s nation-leading set of school reforms Gov. Mitch Daniels signed into law in early May. The interview…

Waaay back in high school and college debate, my coaches drilled their teams on, among many things, the stupidity of comparing anything to the Holocaust or Nazis. They had several…