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01/01/2006 12:00 AM
Editor's note: In late October 2005, Virginia Walden Ford--executive director of D.C. Parents for School Choice, the organizing force behind the two-year-old, ...(read more)
11/01/2005 12:00 AM
372,000 Gulf State schoolchildren were displaced by Hurricane Katrina
50,000 students were enrolled in Catholic schools operated by the Archdiocese ...(read more)
11/01/2005 12:00 AM
The Blue Ribbon Panel for the Kinder Excellence in Teaching Award consists of the following individuals:
Frank Corcoran, founding teacher of KIPP Academy ...(read more)
11/01/2005 12:00 AM
It might just be an urban legend, but an e-mail purporting to be compiled from notes written by real parents in a real Tennessee school district implies ...(read more)
10/01/2005 12:00 AM
The U.S. Department of Education in August commended six alternative administration programs for their effectiveness, in the report Innovations in Education: ...(read more)
05/01/2005 12:00 AM
The rapidly growing Independent Institute is currently seeking an Associate Director of Development.
Conveniently located in the center of the Bay Area, ...(read more)
09/01/2004 12:00 AM
Although the July 2004 School Reform News article, "Colorado Now Sends Aid to Colleges Via Vouchers," reported the state's $2,400 college voucher "would ...(read more)
09/01/2004 12:00 AM
If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them, they must become happy.
Thomas Jefferson
No. ...(read more)
09/01/2004 12:00 AM
Table 1: State and Local Taxes Per Capita, 2002
Rank State Amount
1 New York $4,645
2 Connecticut 4,373
3 New Jersey 4,038
4 Massachusetts 3721
5 ...(read more)
06/01/2004 12:00 AM
Who better to teach U.S. government as a second career than Jon, who has worked for 25 years for the Federal Aviation Administration? He has coordinated ...(read more)
06/01/2004 12:00 AM
The federal government's Office of Innovation and Improvement was created in December 2002 with a budget of about $2 billion and a staff of about 100, and ...(read more)
05/01/2004 12:00 AM
3,000 Charters Proves a Hard Nut to Crack
In the fall of 1998, when he signed a bill to encourage states to open more charter schools, then-President ...(read more)
05/01/2004 12:00 AM
Michigan Education Association Lawsuit Dismissed
On March 18, the Michigan Court of Appeals dismissed a Michigan Education Association (MEA) lawsuit ...(read more)
05/01/2004 12:00 AM
Texas spends more than $30 billion a year in taxpayer funds on education; half of that amount is raised locally. Average per-pupil spending in 2002-03 was ...(read more)
05/01/2004 12:00 AM
On February 10 in Washington DC, the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation awarded the second annual Fordham Prizes for Excellence in Education to Howard L. Fuller ...(read more)
12/01/2003 12:00 AM
Although a new report about the education of blacks in the U.S. shows evidence of some progress, U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige recently warned there ...(read more)
12/01/2003 12:00 AM
Courage, Diligence, Faith, Forbearance, Forgiveness, Honesty, Love, Loyalty, Prudence, Responsibility, Service, and Trustworthiness—those are the titles ...(read more)
12/01/2003 12:00 AM
Students in four Maryland schools who were taught using the Singapore Math program significantly outperformed their peers who were not in the program, according ...(read more)
11/01/2003 12:00 AM
Florida
In a recent study of Florida’s A+ Program, Manhattan Institute scholars Jay P. Greene and Marcus A. Winters found that the greater the competitive ...(read more)
11/01/2003 12:00 AM
Rural schools often are pressured to be consolidated with another school or district. What options are available to parents who want to maintain the presence ...(read more)
11/01/2003 12:00 AM
School Reform News is pleased to welcome Lisa Snell as a contributing editor.
Snell directs the education program at the Reason Foundation, where she ...(read more)
11/01/2003 12:00 AM
Schools in New York City recently began to offer a free breakfast to every student to help improve student achievement. Menus include doughnuts, buttermilk ...(read more)
10/01/2003 12:00 AM
Work-study programs are not the only way to engage college students in tutoring programs. A parent with a child who needs tutoring could easily post a flyer ...(read more)
10/01/2003 12:00 AM
The recent experience of a Georgia publisher “helping” to hire a new school principal for the Atlanta Public Schools indicates it’s not only the teacher ...(read more)
10/01/2003 12:00 AM
Bridget Green’s failure to graduate high school because she persistently failed to pass Louisiana’s Graduate Exit Exam (GEE) prompted local test critic ...(read more)
