Poll: Confidence in schools hits new low
Only 29 percent of Americans express “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in the public school system, down from 58 percent in 1973, according to a new Gallup poll. Forty percent in the new...
View ArticlePublic educators must live with public policies
Education leaders need to get over their aversion to education policy, writes Rick Hess, who’s been teaching at Penn and Rice. I had smart, talented leaders complain about ill-conceived accountability...
View ArticleIn 7 districts, 30% of students are in charters
More urban students are choosing charter schools, according to a new National Alliance for Public Charter Schools report. In seven school districts, 30 percent of public school students are enrolled in...
View ArticleNo choice for the wealthy
Actor Matt Damon, who opposes school choice for low-income students, has chosen to send his children to private school in Los Angeles, where he’s just moved, notes Andrew Rotherham in TIME, who calls...
View ArticleIt’s not public if you can’t go
A well-to-do Baton Rouge neighborhood wants to secede from the city school district, reports Margaret Newkirk on Bloomberg News. “Local control” would mean more money per student and fewer problem...
View ArticleWhy Americans like their local schools
Forty-seven percent of the public gave their local public schools an “A” or “B” in the 2014 Education Next survey, while 18 percent gave them a “D” or “F.” When asked to rate the nation’s public...
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Hillary: Charters don’t serve ‘hardest-to-teach’ kids
“Most charter schools . . . don’t take the hardest-to-teach kids, or, if they do, they don’t keep them,” charged Hillary Clinton in a town hall hosted by the South Carolina Legislative Black Caucus. TV...
View ArticleWhy I changed my mind about vouchers
Robin Lake, director of University of Washington’s Center on Reinventing Education, used to oppose vouchers, she writes on U.S. News. A strong supporter of public schools, she was concerned about...
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Public prefers private schools
Americans think private schools provide the best K-12 education, according to a new Gallup poll. Next in order are parochial, charter, home and public schooling. While 71 percent think independent...
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Schools for citizens
“Our public schools” have a critical role as “an incubator of citizens,” writes Erika Christakis in The Atlantic. Our public-education system is about much more than personal achievement; it is about...
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