Now is the time to start downsizing ISDs: Ben DeGrow
April 22, 2020
Rather than cutting local agencies across the board, though, officials should look first to scale back the state’s 56 intermediate school districts.
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COVID-19 shut down the SAT and ACT, but not the Classic Learning Test: Jude Schwalbach
April 21, 2020The ACT and SAT are widely accepted college placement exams that nearly 3.6 million high school students take annually. -
Arizona families vindicated after years of unfair attacks: Matt Beienburg
April 21, 2020A new report from the Arizona Office of the Auditor General should finally bury this anti-ESA family narrative in the eyes of all but the most rabidly partisan. -
Harvard law school calls for ban on homeschooling; homeschooled Harvard graduate on why this is wrong: Melba Pearson
April 21, 2020As a homeschooled applicant, I had to work harder than most students when applying to college. -
The New York Times begins correcting the historical record on 1619 Project: Jonathan Butcher
April 20, 2020On March 11, the Times issued a correction to its 1619 Project, a sprawling journalistic exercise that has proved more editorial than historical. -
The coronavirus and rigid education policy: Larry Sand
April 20, 2020With U.S. schools closed, educators across the land are scrambling to figure out how to provide instruction to millions of students via computers. -
School choice left undone: Jim Waters
April 20, 2020Even before COVID-19 struck and uprooted this year’s General Assembly session, a group of House Republicans banded together to block a scholarship tax-credit policy from moving forward. -
Schools are closed, but expenses remain and revenues fall: James Hohman and Ben DeGrow
April 17, 2020During the last recession, the assessed value of homes did not reach its trough until 2012, while the rest of the economy had already been recovering. -
How Pennsylvania is discouraging education during the coronavirus crisis: Corey DeAngelis
April 17, 2020This kind of blanket order does nothing to encourage schools to provide educational services to students online. -
Americans are academically ill-equipped to defend the Constitution: Lindsey Burke and Angela Sailor
April 17, 2020Just 23% of American eighth-graders are proficient in civics, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress.
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