In a victory against state sanctioned racism, very late in the session just concluded both the Senate and House of the Texas Legislature adopted and sent to the Governor a bill that will prohibit the teaching of “Critical Race Theory” in Texas schools, reaffirming a commitment to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In addition […]
“Action Civics” Showdown in Texas
As a long-time member of the National Association of Scholars (NAS.org), I recently joined the Civics Alliance that they sponsored, which has as its mission “to unite education reformers, policymakers, and every U. S. citizen who wants to preserve civics education that teaches the founding principles and documents of the United States, the key events […]
Along With the Tragic, A Bit of Good News for Public Education
Just when I was about to sit down and write another scathing indictment of the nation’s teachers unions for what by now should be a criminal act of child abuse in keeping huge numbers of our K-12 students out of school, and the cowardly response of their political leaders for being so intimidated, both of […]
A “Katrina Moment” in Public Education?
If there is anything positive to come out of this pandemic that we’re enduring, I have hope that it might be a major overhaul of public education delivery in the U. S. Remember that when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans the entire public school system was destroyed. As a result the opportunity to redesign a […]
Education Needs to Get Back on Track ASAP
Of all the elements of American society disrupted by the Coronavirus pandemic, the delivery of education, both higher and K-12, might be the most damaged. Why? Because, particularly in K-12, our kids have been totally ripped from whatever passed as the continuity of their pathway to post-secondary readiness. The well endowed college and universities will […]
The Nation’s Report Card—Not Good News
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) for 2019 has just been released and the results are not good. Basically, in measuring the progress of students in fourth and eighth grade, it shows that American school children have made no progress in math or reading for at least ten years. Since the last time the […]
Who’s Killing Public Education Reform?
My friends Rick Hess and Jay Greene have done a good job recently in the Wall Street Journal, with some good follow up by Jason Riley, in describing the takeover of public education reform efforts recently by progressive Democrats and the difference they believe this has made in the progress of reform going forward. Among […]
The Texas Education Challenge
As we begin the new year from a public policy standpoint, most politically observant eyes in Texas will be on the opening of the Texas Legislature under a new Speaker of the House, and many of those same eyes will be once again focused on what is to be done about public education finance, the […]
Should We “Track” High School Students?
We are about to arrive at the tenth anniversary of a document of which I am proud to have been a co-author named “Common Ground: A Declaration of Principles and Strategies for Texas Education Policy”. This paper was the product of ten months of intensive discussion in periodic sessions held in three cities during 2008 […]
Surprise! Education Policy Has Consequences
I have just been sent a copy of a brief white paper written by the Center for Public Policy Priorities and the UTeach Institute for the Texas Education Grantmakers Advocacy Consortium that presents the results of Texas 8th grade math scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP, the “nation’s report card”) by income […]
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