school choice

For the past year, South Carolina lawmakers have focused on a major education reform plan. Unfortunately, their plan will likely not include the most significant education reform possible: school choice.

When it comes to parental choice in education, Nebraska is a 77,000-square-mile desert.

After deliberating for two years, a national commission is pushing to implement social-emotional learning (SEL) in all government schools.

Its a full studio today as Donny Kendal is joined by John Nothdurft, and Isaac Orr in episode #167 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s episode features work from The Tax Foundation, The Heritage Foundation, and the Commonwealth Foundation.

Donny Kendal and John Nothdurft present episode #153 of the In The Tank Podcast. This week’s episode features work from The Property and Environment Research Center, the Texas Public Policy Foundation, and the Center of the American Experiment. 

To reduce school violence, we must address its actual cause.

While teachers have walked off their jobs in several states this spring to protest what they believe to be low pay and lack of classroom resources to support teaching, armies of bureaucrat have been bickering over implementing the massive Every Student Succeeds Act.

Roughly one in every 50 public school students in the United States was a victim of a physical assault, sexual assault, rape, attempted rape, robbery, or threatened with physical assault at school during the 2015–16 school year.

John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #137 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from The Heartland Institute, the American Enterprise Institute, and more.

Opponents of education choice like to prophesize doom when the subject is raised for debate.

The go-to mantra of many traditional government school advocates is that education-choice programs destroy neighborhood public schools.

The private school-charter school debate is complex, but it’s obvious that the traditional government school system is broken. 

A recent series published by The Huffington Post, created in conjunction with an Indiana media company, examines Indiana’s “booming” school choice program and “highlights the benefits and battles over vouchers.”