In a fresh approach to education in the U.S., Sec. of Education Betsy DeVos’s focus is on students and what is best for them, rather than on parents being told from a federal level what is best for students. Mrs. DeVos wants parents to be involved in making decisions at the local level. In her […]
Charter Schools—the Most Successful Schools for Educating Blacks
Thomas Sowell, an economist and a conservative, was born in 1930—into poverty in South Carolina. After moving to Harlem with his mother at the age of 9, Mr. Sowell went to Stuyvesant—“a selective high school for smart kids,” according to Mr. Sowell in an interview published in the WSJ and conducted by Tunku Varadarajan, a […]
Donald Trump—Helping People to Help Themselves?
During Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, he promised that, if elected, he would help inner cities, especially the urban poor. He also promised to improve school choice and education opportunities, a sure path to helping people break the cycle of poverty. “Apparently, it wasn’t just talk,” writes Jason L. Riley in the WSJ. According to the […]
Who Will Speak Up for Another Generation of Failing Children?
Betsy DeVos should eschew federal education policy, suggests William McGurn in the WSJ. Instead, he explains, the new Secretary of Education should use what her critics fear most–the bully pulpit. “Because if Mrs. DeVos does nothing else in her time but lay bare the corruption of a system failing children who need a decent education […]
America’s Cult -Like Education System and the Ideological Cold War
Over the last five decades, the U.S. has turned out countless kids “who are functionally uneducated, even if they’re at the top in their class at elite schools,” writes Stella Morabito, senior fellow at The Federalist. So many are unable to think independently, lack context, and try mightily to adapt to various PC lines. All […]
Did Union Campaign Donations Change Elizabeth Warren’s Mind on School Choice?
From the Wall Street Journal today on Elizabeth Warren’s old position on school choice: From “The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Parents Are (Still) Going Broke” (2003) by Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi. Ms. Warren is now a U.S. senator from Massachusetts: Any policy that loosens the ironclad relationship between location-location-location and school-school-school would eliminate the need for parents […]
Unions or Children–Which Way Will Massachusetts Vote?
In a state that takes great pride in education, Massachusetts has become ground zero for the national charter school debate, explains Roger Lowenstein in the WSJ. State laws limit charter school capacity in the Bay State, which means 32,000 children, most of them minorities, are on waiting lists. But that could change in November when […]
Oxford Grabs Top Spot in Latest World University Ratings
The Wall Street Journal announces the complete top 10 list, including an analysis of the huge gains being made in China. The University of Oxford, the oldest in the English-speaking world, took the top spot in the latest World University Rankings, released annually by Times Higher Education. The English university dating to 1096 dethroned the […]
School Choice for Every Disadvantaged Student—Amen
What would you say about a presidential nominee who proposes a plan “to provide school choice to every disadvantaged student in America”? Amen, to that, writes the WSJ. Donald Trump recently told the audience at the Cleveland Arts and Social Sciences Academy, “There is no failed policy more in need of urgent change than our […]
Dismantle the Department of Education
Former CIA bin Laden unit chief Michael Scheuer explains the tyranny that is steadily taking hold in our republic and what to do about it. All of America’s Founders, from the most known to the least, believed that the republic they created could survive only if its population was well educated, especially in history; consistently […]