Positive Results of School Choice in Florida
There is an interesting story from Students for Liberty sharing both the personal experiences of the author and current statistical trends on education choice in Florida. From the piece (click here to...
View ArticleFunding Empowers Choice
Speaking of school choice, here’s a novel idea: Arizona has a program that allows certain segments of their student population the alternative of having 90% of the money that would have gone to their...
View ArticleBad News for Poor Kids in New Hampshire
Via Cato, New Hampshire Governor Maggie Hasan has threatened to end the state’s Opportunity Scholarship Act. The Act serves to provide aid to low-income families to send their kids to private school....
View ArticleNo Freedom at Johns Hopkins
Academic freedom is dead if you don’t toe the liberal academic line. From George Will (click here for the article): [Johns Hopkins University's] Student Government Association has denied [pro-life...
View ArticleThe Education System That Wasn’t About Education
Ross Douthat writes an excellent piece on Susan Patton’s (Princeton alumna) call to the young women of Princeton to consider finding their husbands while at school. Patton has received much flak for...
View ArticleJohns Hopkins Update
Good news – pro-life student group Voice for Life (who I wrote about here) just won its right to be an official student group at Johns Hopkins university. From Mere Comments (click here for the...
View ArticleIgnoring the Point of College
Alan Jacobs at The American Conservative points to a troubling trend in our colleges and universities. Things seem to be getting more difficult for professors, with more part-time professors,...
View ArticleQuick Facts on Education Spending
UnionWatch.org (a project of the California Public Policy Center) shares some great, simple graphs on education spending in the U.S. Click here for their article. In short, we have a small portion of...
View ArticleEncouraging Community Colleges
Not too long ago, the Atlantic posted a short piece on an interesting idea within academia: More heavily promoting community colleges through increased funding and easier student transfers. From the...
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The Lost Art of Education
When American parents send their children off to college, the deluge of emotion can be overwhelming. No matter how much time and money you spent preparing yourself for this most pivotal transition in...
View ArticleWhat Public Schools Can Learn from Homeschoolers
Thomas Purifoy posts a great critique of our current public school system at Compass Classroom (click here for the whole article). I’ll quote a salient bit, but the whole thing is well worth ten...
View ArticleTough to be a Boy in the Modern School
Christina Hoff Sommers has a great, short essay in Time on the difficulties boys face in schools today. She argues that boys naturally tend towards dramatic, heroic, action-oriented play. But this...
View ArticleWhen You Can’t Say No
Ezra Klein points out a real problem with some of the more simplistic market rhetoric about reforming health care and education. He explains (click here to read the whole thing at The Washington...
View ArticleBye Bye Student Loans
This may be both good news and bad news, but CNBC reports that the student loan bubble may be bursting. From the article (click here to read the whole article – via Instapundit): The largest bank in...
View ArticleNot-So-Bright America
Things aren’t looking great in our schools today. Out of high schoolers taking the SAT, fewer than half score high enough to be even “college ready”, according to College Board. From The Atlantic...
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Is Christian Education an Oxymoron?
Today in many intellectual circles, Christians are viewed with condescension and derision. We are seen as naïve simpletons who lack the courage to accept the world at face value. We insist on weaving...
View ArticleArizona Education Savings Accounts Stand
Heritage reports that Arizona’s Court of Appeals upheld the state’s Education Savings Accounts program (click here for the article). This is a big win for educational freedom in the state. From the...
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Homeschooling Data
Infographics provide an entertaining (albeit overused) way to quickly get a handle on statistics. A friend recently shared this one on homeschooling – complete with some rather lengthy footnotes if...
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A Way Out for College Kids
American education is in trouble—that much seems to be a given. Our public schools and colleges are getting poor results, our young people are drowning in debt, new graduates can’t find jobs, and our...
View ArticleHow Not to Waste Your College Years
There is an unfortunate trend in modern higher education that goes against conservative and progressive ideals alike. By nature of their process, top schools in the U.S. are perpetuating and insulating...
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