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Will Education Standards Really Help Failing Schools?
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
2.26.2010
President Obama’s proposal Monday to link Title I funding to adoption of education standards has the education world abuzz.
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States Should Look, Not Leap When it Comes to National Standards
By: Vicki E. Murray, Ph.D, Evelyn B. Stacey
2.24.2010
A day after President Obama and Secretary of Education Duncan laid out an aggressive plan to expand federal control over K-12 academic standards at the National Governors Association (NGA) a new report finds the national standards process "opaque" and could jeopardize states such with existing high standards.
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Why Race to the Middle?
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
2.24.2010
BOSTON/SAN FRANCISCO – A day after President Obama and Secretary of Education Duncan laid out an aggressive plan to expand federal control over K-12 academic standards at the National Governors Association (NGA) winter meetings, a new report criticizes the national standards process as “opaque” and the federal push harmful not only to states with existing high standards but to all states that want its students adequately prepared for authentic college level work.
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Garden State Ripe for Tax-Credit Scholarships
By: Vicki E. Murray, Ph.D
2.16.2010
More millionaires once called New Jersey home, but times have changed. A new study finds the Garden State turned a $98 billion net influx in household wealth into a net outflow of $70 billion over the past decade-what study authors call a "a near total reversal of the flow." (See p. 2)
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Taking the "Public Option" in Schooling to Task
By: Vicki E. Murray, Ph.D
2.16.2010
The Washington Post again takes partisan opponents of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program to task. This time it's columnist George Will who documents the hypocrisy, writing:
Most Democrats favor a "public option" -- a government health insurance program. They say there is insufficient competition among the 1,300 private providers of insurance, so people should not be dependent on those insurers. But tuition vouchers redeemable at private as well as public schools are a "private option" providing minimal competition with public schools. Government, with 89 percent of the pupils, dominates education grades K through 12. So, do Democrats favor vouchers to reduce Americans' dependence on government education? Of course not.
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"Scholar Ladies" Sing Praises of Their Milwaukee Private School
By: Vicki E. Murray, Ph.D
2.11.2010
Students using Milwaukee Parental Choice Program vouchers are more likely to graduate from high school, according to a recent expert analysis. But in case you missed it, see what some younger experts have to say about their Milwaukee private school.
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Will the Senate Save the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program?
By: Vicki E. Murray, Ph.D
2.4.2010
On Monday, President Obama made it clear in his budget that he plans to kill the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program-but not if Senators Joe Lieberman (ID-CT) and Susan Collins (R-ME) have anything to say about it.
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The President's Budget: "No Justifiable Reason" for Killing the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program
By: Vicki E. Murray, Ph.D
2.3.2010
President Obama told the nation last week, "Like any cash-strapped family" his administration would "work within a budget to invest in what we need and sacrifice what we don't." (See pp. 9-10). This week the president presented his budget. At $3.8 trillion, it is considered "one of the greatest spend-while-you-can documents in American history." Even the New York Times admitted to feeling "sticker shock."
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An Overlooked Lesson from the Off-Year Elections
By: Vicki E. Murray, Ph.D
2.1.2010
Political commentators are still theorizing about the full implications of Sen. Scott Brown's (R-MA) Senate election-particularly in light of the gubernatorial victories in Virginia and New Jersey last November (see here, here, and here, for instance). Thus far they have focused primarily on the health-care debate; however, these elections underscore the importance of putting parents-not politicians-in charge of children's education.
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Empowering Parents in the Pelican State
By: Vicki E. Murray, Ph.D
2.1.2010
The Pelican State holds critical lessons for adopting student vouchers, according to a new analysis by Louisiana native and Harvard researcher Michael Henderson. This is welcome news since in recent years similar programs have been scaled back or eliminated in Washington, DC, Utah, Arizona, and Florida.
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