Support For Common Standards Has Rebounded
The big news out of this year’s Education Next poll is the sharp decline in support for charter schools, even among Republicans, which is going to leave us wonks scratching our heads for months. But don’t miss the findings on what we used to call “standards-based reform.”
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Blame California’s Elected Leaders, not Its Teachers, for What Ails the State’s Public Schools
A few days from now, 6.2 million children will return to public schools in California. Three million of them can’t read or write at grade level (the number is especially tragic among male African American kids). In reading, California fourth-graders rank among the lowest: forty-eighth in the nation. This isn’t a recent development: twenty-five years ago, we ranked forty-ninth.
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Silicon Valley Billionaires Are The New Robber Barons
Progressives forget their history of breaking up mega-corporations as they lionize tech giants such as Apple, Google, and Facebook.
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The New Pro-Charter LA School Board Means a Chance to Treat Students as Individuals, not Assembly-Line Products
The fundamental obstacle to meaningful change for the students in the Los Angeles region can best be summed up by a statement we hear all the time from former students: “I am a proud product of LAUSD.”
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Kiron Skinner Documents Nancy And Ronald Reagan's Life In Letters
In the wake of the news of First Lady Nancy Reagan's death, we spoke with author Kiron Skinner. From the private papers of President Reagan, Skinner compiled the New York Times bestseller Reagan: A Life in Letters. She talked about the Reagan's correspondences to their loved ones.
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Why Does Apple Think Telegram is "Pernicious"?
I have a lot to say about this week's House Judiciary Committee, at which both FBI Director James Comey and Apple general counsel Bruce Sewell testified. I'll write up some general thoughts over the next few days.
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John Taylor recognized for monetary policy research
Economist JOHN B. TAYLOR has been recognized with the 2016 Central Banking Award for Economics. The award, given by Central Banking Publications, recognizes "the most significant contribution to economics within the field of central banking." The George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution, Taylor received the award for his paper "A Rules-Based Cooperatively-Managed International Monetary System for the Future."
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The Libertarian: "Gun Violence And Legal Liability"
Richard Epstein analyzes a lawsuit that seeks to hold gun manufacturers responsible for mass shootings.
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