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Some of the most reliable yardsticks in monitoring academic progress in K-12 education are the assessments known as the Nation’s Report Card, officially the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). The results from its 2015 assessments are in, and they are not encouraging.
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EducationFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Lennie Jarratt: School Choice v. Education Choice
by Donald Kendal October 27, 2015In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Lennie Jarratt, project manager for education at the Heartland Institute, joins host Donald Kendal to discuss, among other topics, the difference between school choice and education choice.
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EducationFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Dick Komer: Responding to Attacks on School Choice
by Heather Kays August 5, 2015In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Managing Editor of School Reform News Heather Kays speaks to Dick Komer, Senior Attorney at The Institute for Justice. Komer has litigated on behalf of parents and children in many school choice cases, including the recent victory for North Carolina’s Opportunity Scholarship Program.
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EducationFeatured
Douglas County School-Choice Decision Highlights Need to Re-Examine Blaine Amendments
by Heather Kays July 23, 2015On June 29, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled against the Douglas County Choice Scholarship program by overturning a February 2013 Court of Appeals decision upholding the voucher program as constitutional. According to CSC’s decision, the Douglas County program violates Article IX, Section 7 of the Colorado Constitution
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Accordingly, half of the state’s lowest-performing schools are located outside of Chicago’s borders in Aurora, East St. Louis, Rockford, Springfield, and Waukegan. Surely the family members of students in these districts want the option to have their loved one attend a higher-quality school, realizing just how important a quality education is for their child’s future.
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EducationFeaturedPolitics
Bobby Jindal Pwns Other Governors On Common Core
by Joy Pullmann September 19, 2014Jindal has gone to war to oust the Common Core tests that not only represent but actually extend the hand of the federal government directly into classrooms.
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The reason government subsidizes education at all is to perpetuate a self-governing republic.
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EducationFeaturedLiberty
Suburban Voters Support Market-Friendly Education
by Joy Pullmann November 14, 2013The Douglas County election results can and should sow similar efforts around the country to reclaim local institutions to protect freedom and demonstrate effective self-government.
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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,…
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EconomicsEducationPolitics
Our Ben Domenech on GBTV (The Blaze) Talking Milton Friedman’s Legacy
by Jim Lakely July 31, 2012Heartland Institute research fellow Benjamin Domenech, who is also editor of our Health Care News, was a guest today on “The War Room” on Glenn Beck’s Web-based network The Blaze.…
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EducationPolitics
Indiana Parent Trigger Bill Blindsided by Eleventh-Hour Rewrite
by Ben Boychuk April 29, 2011If you had asked me earlier this week if I thought Indiana’s SB 496, the Parent Trigger Act, would face any difficulty in conference, I would have said, in so…
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Education
Kelley Williams-Bolar and the Glaringly Obvious Case for School Choice
by Ben Boychuk January 27, 2011Kelley Williams-Bolar is a felon in the state of Ohio. A jury recently found her guilty of fraud and forgery, but prosecutors could not make the case for grand theft.…
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Education
Heartland Institute’s Bruno Behrend Debates School Reform on Fox News Chicago
by Bruno Behrend December 19, 2010Subhead: It’s not about bashing teachers, it’s about changing the entire system … At least, that was the message I conveyed on Fox News Chicago on Sunday Morning while discussing…