Articles By Author George A. Clowes
Articles by George A. Clowes
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10/15/2009 12:00 AM
Your two articles about the decline of Detroit and its public schools (“In One House,” Sept. 26, 2009, and “Detroit Coaxes Students,” ...(read more)
07/26/2007 12:00 AM
Arguing in favor of state taxpayers shouldering a larger portion of public school costs, Chicago Public Schools CEO Arne Duncan said recently, “It’s unfair ...(read more)
01/01/2006 12:00 AM
Despite educational reforms implemented over the past eight years, students graduating from public schools are still largely unprepared for the workforce, ...(read more)
12/01/2005 12:00 AM
Good news about student athletes in the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) was publicized in Mayor Richard M. Daley's "Principal for a Day" news conference October ...(read more)
07/01/2005 12:00 AM
Review of Doomed to Fail: The Built-in Defects of American Education
by Paul A. Zoch
Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2004, 237 pages, ISBN 1-56663-567-5, $26.95
Paul ...(read more)
07/01/2005 12:00 AM
Review of Public Schools, Public Menace: How Public Schools Lie to Parents and Betray Our Children
by Joel Turtel
New York: Liberty Books, 2005, 387 pages, ...(read more)
06/01/2005 12:00 AM
Despite the efforts of teacher unions and their allies to portray voucher supporters as extremists whose ideas are out of touch with mainstream America, ...(read more)
05/01/2005 12:00 AM
Ruling in what school choice advocates have called "the most frivolous" challenge ever filed against a school choice program, a federal district court judge ...(read more)
05/01/2005 12:00 AM
When K-12 public school teachers attain certification through the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS), they are rewarded with annual ...(read more)
04/21/2005 12:00 AM
On April 20, the National Education Association, the nation's largest teacher union, filed a lawsuit against the federal government claiming it had not ...(read more)
04/21/2005 12:00 AM
(April 21, 2005 -- Chicago, IL) Yesterday, the National Education Association, the nation’s largest teacher union, filed a lawsuit against the federal government ...(read more)
04/19/2005 12:00 AM
As an April 14 Tribune editorial pointed out ("Top teachers for tough jobs"), when K-12 public school teachers attain certification through the National ...(read more)
04/01/2005 12:00 AM
Crowds of concerned parents, students, and educators rallied in Tallahassee, Florida and Madison, Wisconsin in January and February to show support for ...(read more)
04/01/2005 12:00 AM
A total of 531 students transferred to better-performing public schools and more than 200 were able to receive tutoring services during 2003-04 as a result ...(read more)
04/01/2005 12:00 AM
"Politicians who promote public schools don't always send their kids to them," said ABC News journalist John Stossel in a segment of the 20/20 program broadcast ...(read more)
Bringing the Profit Motive and Moral Values to Education - An Exclusive Interview with J.C. Huizenga
04/01/2005 12:00 AM
"Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door."
Attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many entrepreneurs have discovered that ...(read more)
04/01/2005 12:00 AM
Culminating a 12-year court battle over the funding of New York City's public schools, New York State Supreme Court Justice Leland DeGrasse issued a final ...(read more)
03/01/2005 12:00 AM
In a potentially far-reaching lawsuit filed on January 27 in Fulton County Superior Court in Georgia, three Atlanta families charged the State of Georgia ...(read more)
03/01/2005 12:00 AM
On December 16, 2004, the education reform group Education Excellence Utah filed a complaint with Utah attorney general Mark Shurtleff (R) against the Ballot ...(read more)
03/01/2005 12:00 AM
Deputy Secretary of Education Gene Hickok resigned from the U.S. Department of Education effective at the end of January, after four years of efforts to ...(read more)
03/01/2005 12:00 AM
The parent organization of the Lewis Lemon public school in Rockford, Illinois is asking the local school board not to drop a three-year-old reading program ...(read more)
02/01/2005 12:00 AM
In an escalating conflict with the separation of powers doctrine, a court-appointed panel on November 30, 2004 unanimously determined that New York state ...(read more)
02/01/2005 12:00 AM
According to Sol Stern, one of New York state’s most powerful arguments against the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit was that New York City’s public education ...(read more)
02/01/2005 12:00 AM
In his first few months as the new superintendent of the Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Rudolph F. “Rudy” Crew negotiated a new contract with the local ...(read more)
02/01/2005 12:00 AM
While taxpayers in Florida’s Miami-Dade School District aren’t getting the new schools they want and need, taxpayers in Jersey County, Illinois, are getting ...(read more)
