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A New Framework for Public Education in Michigan
Source: Michigan Department of Education
Author: William B. Allen and Eugenia F. Toma
Country: United States

Recommends eliminating government-run schools entirely, transferring ownership of the schools to individual shareholders. See also 21774f.pdf. Adobe PDF. (11/96)

Why more money will not solve America's education crisis
Source: Heritage Foundation
Author: Kirk A. Johnson, Ph.D., and Krista Kafer
Country: United States

An analysis of the disconnect between spending and results in America's education system. (06/11/01)

Education Reforms--Despite the NEA and AFT
Source: Alexis de Tocqueville Institution
Country: United States

A day-long conference held February 4 1997 in Washington DC, sponsored by the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, considered strategies for defeating the anti-reform tendencies of the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers. (2/4/97)

The NGA's phony education reform plan
Source: Heritage Foundation
Author: Nina Shokrail Rees
Country: United States

"Congress has the perfect opportunity to do to education what it did to welfare just a few years ago: end years of perverse incentives and focus federal dollars strictly on results." (2/29/00)

How the Senate can reform Title I to empower parents and help children achieve
Source: Heritage Foundation
Author: Nina Shokraii Rees
Country: United States

Many Senators realize that Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) has a long tradition of failing to show significant results. Now they have an opportunity to improve the program by significantly boosting parental involvement in education. (3/4/00)

Nock on education
Source: Ideas on Liberty
Author: Wendy McElroy
Country: United States
E-mail: mac@zetetics.com

"Nock," an early 20th century libertarian, "charted what he saw as the disastrous consequences to American society of democratizing education. In doing so, he opposed one of the most popular trends of the early twentieth century: mass education."

Enhancing the Viability of Independent Teacher Groups
Source: Public Service Research Foundation
Author: Milton Chappell
Country: United States

Teachers who resist joining the two largest teacher unions the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers often find themselves without a voice that speaks for them. This article explains the potential effectiveness of independent teacher unions. See also 21804q.pdf. Adobe PDF. (1996)

'Edupreneurs': A survey of for-profit education
Source: The Cato Institute
Author: Carrie Lips
Country: United States

"This study provides a glimpse of the products, services, and innovations that a fully competitive marketplace could generate if the government's stranglehold on education were loosened." It is available in Adobe PDF. (11/20/00)

Remedial education reform: Private alternatives
Source: Reason Public Policy Institute
Author: Lisa Snell and Lindsay Anderson
Country: United States

Title I education reform doesn't have to be another program to bloat the Department of Education's budget. Private firms like Sylvan and Kaplan are providing efficient and effective education supplementation for disadvantaged students. (2/00)

The effects of advanced teacher training in education on student achievement
Source: Heritage Foundation
Author: Kirk A. Johnson. PhD
Country: United States

The relative effectiveness of the education degree versus a subject degree is a topic of much conjecture but little empirical research. Johnson's report attempts to fill the gap by studying the test scores of students taught by teachers holding advanced degrees in education with those whose teachers did not. (9/15/00)

A Nation at Risk
Source: Department of Education
Country: United States

The landmark 1983 DoE study that led to emphasis on standardized test performance over actual education, and that some argue is behind the Ritalin craze and other last-ditch attempts to "save" public education.

Bayer Facts of Science Education
Source: Bayer Corporation
Country: United States

Survey conducted by Peter D. Hart Research Associates on behalf of Bayer Corporation concludes that how children are taught is the strongest influence on their attitudes toward science education. Students want more hands-on teaching and teachers who challenge them. See also 21135a.pdf, 21133b.pdf, 21133c.pdf, 21133d.pdf. Adobe PDF. (3/97)

Teacher Inc.: A Private-Practice Option for Educators
Source: Cascade Policy Institute
Author: Janet R. Beales
Country: United States

Private-practice teachers are professional educators who provide their services to schools on a limited contract basis. Discusses six case studies of successful private practice. Adobe PDF. (1994)

Guideposts for smaller high schools
Source: Jobs for the Future
Country: United States

In communities across the U.S., the conversion of large high schools into small, focused learning environments is gaining currency as an education reform strategy. This report offers ideas on how to do it successfully. (11/01/02)

Classroom modernization bill promotes unwarranted federal intrusion
Source: Heritage Foundation
Author: Ronald D. Utt, PHD
Country: United States

A discussion on the Classroom Modernization Act (H.R. 4766). Utt contends it would create a bureaucratically intensive program to fund public school renovation and charter school construction. (8/17/00)

The agony of public education
Source: Independent Institute
Author: James L. Payne
Country: United States

"Public schools in the United States are suffering not because of lack of accountability but because they are 'accountable' to too many competing interest groups. The U.S. educational system is not falling behind those of Japan, France, and Germany, but is leading the way in a democratic descent toward uniform mediocrity." (11/10/00)

Breaking up large high schools
Source: ERIC Clearinghouse on Rural Education and Small Schools
Country: United States

Essentially all research on high school size in the past 30 years suggests the need to move to much smaller schools. This digest reviews recent research on the movement to break up large schools and discusses five types of error common among such attempts. (12/01)

Study: They have overcome
Source: Pacific Research Institute
Author: Lance Izumi
Country: United States

Study for which authors interviewed principals and teachers from eight high-performing elementary schools that serve low-income, minority students which have managed to succeed at high levels despite conditions of poverty, racial diversity, and limited English proficiency. (PDF file) (9/02)

Charity or commercialism?
Source: Mackinac Center
Country: United States

Corporate donations have become increasingly popular as a way for school districts to raise extra education dollars, but critics fear the "commercialization" of public schools. (09/25/01)

Evaluation of community schools: An early look
Source: Coalition for Community Schools
Author: Joy Dryfoos
Country: United States

Sharing facilities by schools and community-based organizations benefits students and families. These can include better learning opportunities for students, improved services for students and families, gains in student achievement and more efficient use of tax dollars.

Digest of education statistics, 2001
Source: National Center for Education Statistics
Country: United States

Topics in this 440-page Digest of Education Statistics from prekindergarten through graduate school include: the number of schools and colleges; teachers; enrollments; graduates; educational attainment; finances; federal funds for education; employment and income of graduates, libraries; technology and international comparisons. (01/30/2002)

2001 Education Freedom Index
Source: Manhattan Institute for Policy Research
Author: Jay P. Greene
Country: United States

The Education Freedom Index measures the extent of government-subsidized or -regulated educational choices offered to families in each state. It also analyzes the relationship between the amount of education freedom in a state and the level of academic achievement demonstrated by its students. (01/02)

Merit pay for teachers: a meritorious concept or not?
Source: Widener University
Author: Kathy A. Johnson
Country: United States

This paper examines issues related to the controversy of merit pay for teachers. A brief historical background of teacher compensation is provided. Problems of understanding, fact and value that permeate both sides of the debate are analyzed. Ethical and societal perspectives of the merit pay issue are also discussed. (03/09/01)

Schools more separate: consequences of a decade of resegregation
Source: The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University
Author: Gary Orfield
Country: United States

Nearly 50 years after the U.S. Supreme Court said segregation is unconstitutional, 1998-99 school year statistics show racial and ethnic segregation continued to intensify in the 1990s. Whites are the most segregated; on average they attend schools where less than 20% of the students are from other racial and ethnic groups combined. (07/17/01)

Dropout rates in the United States: 2000
Source: The National Center for Education Statistics
Country: United States

This 13th in a series of NCES reports on high school dropout rates shows that rates were reduced somewhat in the 1970s and 1980s but stabilized in the 1990s. In the one-year period from October 1999 to October 2000, 5% of high school students left without graduating.

High school graduation rates in the United States
Source: The Manhattan Institute (for the Black Alliance for Educational Options)
Author: Jay P. Greene
Country: United States

The high school graduation rate for the class of 1998 was 74%, ranging from a high of 93% for Iowa to a low of 57% for Georgia. For the 50 largest districts, the high rate was 87% in Fairfax County, Virginia and the low was 28% in Cleveland. By ethnic groups, 74% of whites graduated, 56% of African-Americans and 54% for Latino students. (11/01)

Paying private prep school prices for public schools
Source: Clare Booth Luce Policy Institute
Author: Lil Tuttle
Country: United States

Escalating public school costs raise legitimate questions about the sustainability of the present public school system. Are other essential public services suffering as a result of the public schools' persistent demands for more money? Where is the ceiling on public school costs? (07/02)

Toward market competition in teacher representation
Source: The Cato Institute
Author: Myron Lieberman
Country: United States

Myron Lieberman looks at the monopoly the NEA and AFT have over union representation of public school teachers. Lieberman argues for state legislation to end exclusive membership policies, which would open the right to represent teachers in collective bargaining up to a variety of non-profit and for-profit entities. (08/28/02)

Why public schools lose teachers
Source: National Bureau of Economic Research
Author: Eric A. Hanushek, John F. Kain, Steven G. Rivkin
Country: United States

This paper investigates those factors that affect the probability that teachers will switch schools or exit the public schools entirely. The results indicate that teacher mobility is much more strongly related to characteristics of the students than to salary. (Requires subscription.)

Whole language lives on
Source: Thomas B. Fordham Foundation
Author: Louisa Cook Moats
Country: United States

Schools should utilize "best practices" that are supported by research and should avoid those that do not work. In no domain of education is that contrast more vivid than in teaching young children to read. No domain has been studied more intensely. Yet none is more vulnerable to the perpetuation of bad ideas and failed methods.

Reforming the unions
Source: American School Board Journal
Author: Susan Black
Country: United States

Spurred on by their national unions, teachers in many districts are seeking control over educational policies and practices through the collective bargaining process. But should teacher unions bring student achievement to the bargaining table? And what happens when they do? (02/02)

Indicators of school crime and safety, 2000
Source: National Center for Education Statistics
Country: United States

This report, a joint effort by the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics and NCES, examines crime in, and on the way to and from, school. In 2000, students from 12-18 were victims about 1.9 million total crimes of violence or theft at school. Still, students were more than twice as likely to be victims of serious violent crime away from rather than at school. (11/02)

Bilingual Education: A Critique
Source: Hoover Institution
Author: Peter Duignan
Country: United States

"This essay traces the evolution of [the bilingual education debate] from its origin in the Civil Rights Act (1964) and the Bilingual Education Act (1968), which decreed that a child should be instructed in his or her native tongue for a transitional year while she or he learned English but was to transfer to an all-English classroom as fast as possible." (12/01)

Federal support for education: Fiscal yiears 1980 to 2002
Source: National Center for Education Statistics
Country: United States

This 48-page NECS report attempts to provide a comprehensive picture of total federal financial support for education for the time indicated. A summary of dollars spent on education programs in the U.S. Department of Education and other government agencies is provided. (10/31/02)

Coming of age in the 1990s
Source: National Center for Education Statistics
Country: United States

This report presents findings from the fourth follow-up survey of the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988. The report examines the educational and labor market outcomes of the initial eighth-grade cohort of 1988 in the year 2000, when the majority of the cohort was 26 years old. (03/29/02)

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