Thoughts on Education Policy

Earlier, I discussed G.R. Kearney's book about Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in Chicago.  I sent along some questions about the book ...

After reading  David Whitman's book , Sweating the Small Stuff: Inner-City Schools and the new Paternalism last August, I got a copy of...

Mike Petrilli has a good post over at Flypaper on the Hoxby et. al. charter school study that was recently released.  It's good to see...

Now that the Washington Post has also taken the findings of the latest charter school report as gospel, I think it's important that we...

Probably.  At least that seems to be the most sensible interpretation of the recently released report on NYC charter schools.  And it's...

The NY Times profiled a report on charter schools that was released today.  The group conducting the investigation was led by Caroline Hox...

-When looking at the browser requirements for filling out the FAFSA, I noticed that anybody who regularly updates their computer is unable t...

I tried to think of a cutesy title for a while, perhaps involving a pun, but I decided to just say what I thought. On Sunday , I wrote tha...

Teacher quality is the most important within-school factor influencing educational performance.  And every school should be serious about do...

-Here's a handy little post with some graphs of SAT scores by income. I was actually more interested in the comments than in the post....