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Note: This is part of a forum on Education Reform’s Race Debate. Why isn’t Marilyn Anderson Rhames running Education Post? When I published a piece earlier this year about the tense estrangement between conservative education reformers and the movement’s increasingly dominant social justice wing, it did not sit well with members of the latter group, including Rhames, who ...

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Howard Fuller greets a classroom of Milwaukee Public School students in the early 1990s, when he was superintendent of the district. Howard Fuller burst onto the national stage in 1990 as a political organizer when he joined forces with the late state assemblywoman from Wisconsin, Annette “Polly” Williams, to pass the nation’s first school voucher law. T...

“An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them.” —Werner Heisenberg Not three months after graduating from college, I got a job teaching middle school science at a local parochial school. For my orientation, I was given a tour of my classroom and the keys to a closet that contained my students’ textbooks. Wheth...

Earlier this month, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed into law a bipartisan bill that requires public schools in his state to teach cursive. This came hot on the heels of outgoing New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy’s similar measure just weeks before. These states join about two dozen others that require cursive instruction, marking another victory...

/* custom css */ .tdi_2_6fd{ min-height: 0; } /* custom css */ .tdi_4_575{ vertical-align: baseline; } The number of charter schools grew rapidly for a quarter-century after the first charter opened its doors in 1992. But since 2016, the rate of increase has slowed. Is the pause related t...

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February has been a big month for school choice in state supreme courts. First, the movement claimed a major victory when five Idaho justices unanimously upheld the state’s Parental Choice Tax Credit program. Next, the Wyoming high court heard oral arguments in a challenge to Steamboat Legacy Scholarship Act, an education savings account program enjoine...

On Wednesday, November 29, 2017 at 10 am, the Urban Institute will host a panel discussion on school finance policies and inequality. What school funding reforms are being considered in different states? Panelists include Ary Amerikaner, Matt Chingos, Marguerite Roza, Lisa Snell and Daniel Thatcher. Watch the livestream here. — Education Next Source: EducationNext...