Education

Conservatives are appropriating the language of the civil rights movement to accomplish a goal that has nothing to do with rescuing poor African-American students from low-quality education. Too many on the left aren't following along.

Hardly a week goes by without news of a scandal or a study tarnishing the image of charter schools. These schools need way more scrutiny and, yes, government regulation. But the charter school myth is hard to crack.

Regardless of what you think about the new Common Core State Standards and their ability to assess what students "really need," there's little doubt that students who took recent tests based on the standards were set up to fail.

Last week's midair disintegration of a high-flying apparatchik in the movement known as education "reform" is still making headlines in local press and the national media. Tony Bennett was a hero of the national movement bent on reshaping public education along the...

[The following is from a talk given at a meeting of the Young Elected Officials last week in Washington, D.C.] Thanks for having me here today. I'm feeling a little out of context at a meeting for the Young Elected Officials. And it's not because I'm not an elected...

A mantra recited by those who pride themselves as adherents to a movement known as "education reform" is that for too long policies governing public schools have favored "the adults" in the system at the expense of children. This rhetoric has framed any objections...

After years of inaction on rewriting the nation's centerpiece legislation governing public schools, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives on Friday passed "The Student Success Act" by a mostly partisan vote of 221-207 – despite a veto threat from the...

"No excuse" has been a mantra from people who present themselves as advocates for "reforming" America's public schools. And the term is a "pillar" of more than one popular charter school franchise. The term originated from the belief that "the schoolteacher’s age-old...