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DOJ Lawsuit Would Keep Black Kids in Failing Schools 25 Aug 2013 | 06:40 pm
(Guest Post by Yehoshua Bedrick) In the name of civil rights, the Department of Justice is trying to prevent black families from exercising school choice. Following on the heels of the Southern Pove...
Choice and Starfish 21 Aug 2013 | 04:30 pm
(Guest Post By Jason Bedrick) Most people know the story of the boy who was rescuing sea stars that had washed up on a beach by throwing them back into the ocean. When a man scoffed to the boy that h...
In Defense of A-Rod 19 Aug 2013 | 07:27 pm
Alex Rodriguez is one of the highest paid athletes of all time. He also has to be one of the most despised. But this is precisely why the Yankees and MLB officials are getting away with a blatant ef...
Jeb Bush Drops School Choice – I Wonder Why 19 Aug 2013 | 07:11 pm
(Guest post by Greg Forster) Jeb Bush’s big speech about education reform has made it onto NRO this morning. He does not include school choice as one of the four key components of education reform. I...
The world as you knew it at the end of the 20th Century… 15 Aug 2013 | 09:10 pm
(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) Derrell Bradford hits TEDx on digital disruption, choice and education:
Enrichment Spending and Inequality 15 Aug 2013 | 05:32 pm
(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) The New York Times published the above chart last December here’s a link if you would like a better look. It basically shows that both college attendance and completion...
Narcissus Redux 14 Aug 2013 | 08:52 pm
In the TV series Lost some of the characters believed that a set of six numbers had to be entered into a computer every 108 minutes or something terrible would happen. At least initially, it was uncl...
Brilliant New Measure of Non-Cognitive Skills 12 Aug 2013 | 07:29 pm
My student, Collin Hitt, and colleague, Julie Trivitt, have an amazing paper on how we can efficiently measure an important non-cognitive skill that is strongly predictive of later life outcomes. A g...
Camp Liberty 8 Aug 2013 | 09:13 pm
When I was a counselor at Sun Fun summer day camp in Glencoe, Illinois we had an annual tradition of “boys day.” The girls had a sleepover the night before, so they all went home to finally get some ...
New York Releases Common Core Scores 8 Aug 2013 | 05:40 am
(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) So purely in the interests of keeping your fighting skills sharp just in case some Common Core supporting crazy old man in a brown robe intrudes on the anti-Common Core...
