The Pioneer Institute, a Massachusetts-based think tank, released a new study, “The Revenge of K-12: How Common Core and the New SAT Lower College Standards in the U.S.” to help parents, teachers, and policymakers understand…
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New Worlds To Conquer
Education activists, including the community organizer in the White House, look at the ruin that public education has become and want to expand it.
Wallowing In Crimson Irony
At a time of record public deficits, personal bankruptcies and business failures at home, not to mention fatal U. S. embassy attacks abroad, only an academic could believe we are being well-governed.
Mission: PreK
Last month a prestigious line-up of retired admirals and generals emphasized the importance of early childhood education to the America’s continued national security.
New Summertime Blues
President Obama doesn’t just have plans to reform American policies on health care, national security, and international relations—he also has great plans for education reform, including lengthening both school days and school years.
More Money for Academia?
Expanding the availability of student loans and grants at this time might just ensure that students can still get their degrees without actually causing schools to charge less for college.
Education and the Presidential Campaign
What is the role of the Federal Government in education and what do they propose to do about the abysmal public schools in America?
Preschool Amnesia
Claims that big spending on government preschool programs result in wide long-term societal benefits are built on evidential quicksand.
The Illini Initiative
A new online initiative begun by the
University of Illinois, may give this Cinderella a more prominent place than it has had before.
The Familiar Solution
Leftist scholars converged at Brookings recently to share their worries about income inequity, lack of opportunity in America and increased poverty.