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- Can New York Clean Up the Testing Mess? by Sol Stern
Two top education officials tackle rampant score inflation.
Spring 2010 - No State Left Behind by Marcus A. Winters
How to get states to improve their tests
Winter 2010 - The Bilingual Ban That Worked by Heather Mac Donald
Rising test scores vindicate English immersion in California—but Hispanics are still struggling.
Autumn 2009 - There’s a Quota for That by Heather Mac Donald
Tucson schools determine to fix minority discipline rates.
Autumn 2009 - E. D. Hirsch’s Curriculum for Democracy by Sol Stern
A content-rich pedagogy makes better citizens and smarter kids.
Autumn 2009 - LAPD High by Laura Vanderkam
Magnet schools sponsored by cops are getting results with at-risk kids.
Spring 2009 - Pedagogy of the Oppressor by Sol Stern
Another reason why U.S. ed schools are so awful: the ongoing influence of Brazilian Marxist Paulo Freire
Spring 2009 - Recession-Proof Diversity by Heather Mac Donald
Harvard expands its futile quest for proportional faculty.
Winter 2009 - The New Number Crunchers by Marcus A. Winters
Quantitative measurement is telling us more about school performance.
Winter 2009 - A Preference for Truth by Heather Mac Donald
Racial quotas are slowly losing their cover.
Autumn 2008 - The Humanities Move Off Campus by Victor Davis Hanson
As the classical university unravels, students seek knowledge and know-how elsewhere.
Autumn 2008 - Pre-K Can Work by Shepard Barbash
Needy kids could benefit, but only if we use proven pedagogy and hold programs accountable.
Autumn 2008 - A Marshall Plan for Reading by Sol Stern
How New York schools can close the racial achievement gap
Summer 2008 - Story Time by Andrew Klavan
Spring 2008 - The Campus Rape Myth by Heather Mac Donald
The reality: bogus statistics, feminist victimology, and university-approved sex toys
Winter 2008 - School Choice Isn’t Enough by Sol Stern
Instructional reform is the key to better schools.
Winter 2008 - Adding Up to Failure by Catherine Shock, Jay P. Greene
Ed schools put diversity before math.
Winter 2008 - False Prophet by Sol Stern
Who’s to blame for urban teacher flight: George W. Bush or Jonathan Kozol?
Autumn 2007 - Building Bridges by Matthew Clavel
It was my second year teaching in the Bronx, and Timothy was one of my toughest fourth-graders.
Autumn 2007 - Radical U. by Jacob Laksin, David Horowitz
Welcome to UC Santa Cruz, the worst school in America.
19 October 2007 - Why Study War? by Victor Davis Hanson
Military history teaches us about honor, sacrifice, and the inevitability of conflict.
Summer 2007 - The Peace Racket by Bruce Bawer
An anti-Western movement touts dictators, advocates appeasement—and gains momentum.
Summer 2007 - Four Score and Seven Manatees Ago by Brian Kisida, Jay P. Greene, Jonathan Butcher
Why have we stopped naming schools after great public figures?
Summer 2007 - Grading Mayoral Control by Sol Stern
Lauded in the press, Bloomberg’s education reforms are proving more spin than substance. Parents are losing patience.
Summer 2007 - Cory Booker’s Battle for Newark by Steven Malanga
A bold reformer takes on entrenched crime and corruption.
Spring 2007 - Save the Catholic Schools! by Sol Stern
They work miracles with inner-city kids, but without help, their own future is uncertain.
Spring 2007 - Out-in-Left-Field Trips by Marc Holley, Jay P. Greene, Matthew Carr
School trips should be about expanding students’ intellectual horizons.
Spring 2007 - Elites to Anti-Affirmative-Action Voters: Drop Dead by Heather Mac Donald
The University of California has spent a decade wiggling around Proposition 209.
Winter 2007 - Free Inquiry? Not on Campus by John Leo
And the college speech police threaten the liberty of us all.
Winter 2007 - This Bush Education Reform Really Works by Sol Stern
Reading First, though much maligned, succeeds in teaching kids to read.
Winter 2007 - How Not to Do It by Theodore Dalrymple
Nothing works in the omnicompetent state.
Winter 2007 - The Gift of Language by Theodore Dalrymple
No, Dr. Pinker, it’s not just from nature.
Autumn 2006 - CUNY’s Virtuous Circle by Nicole Gelinas
Donors reward a return to high standards.
Autumn 2006 - Eliot Spitzer’s CFE Problem by Sol Stern
Perhaps he can make the suit’s outcome less bad.
Autumn 2006 - The Ed Schools’ Latest—and Worst—Humbug by Sol Stern
Teaching for “social justice” is a cruel hoax on disadvantaged kids.
Summer 2006 - How the Schools Shortchange Boys by Gerry Garibaldi
In the newly feminized classroom, boys tune out.
Summer 2006 - Reorganizing the Reorganization by Sol Stern
Mayor Bloomberg begins backtracking on education.
Summer 2006 - Won’t Someone Stop This Tragedy? by Sol Stern
Bloomberg’s education campaign is driving Gotham’s Catholic schools out of business.
18 April 2006 - City’s Pupils Get More Hype than Hope by Sol Stern
Test scores show little payoff for mayoral control.
Winter 2006 - This Is the Legal Mainstream? by Heather Mac Donald
Law school clinics are stuck in the sixties.
Winter 2006 - What Colleges Forget to Teach by Robert P. George
Higher education could heal itself by teaching civics—not race, class, and gender.
Winter 2006 - NCLB Works by Charles Upton Sahm
President Bush’s maligned No Child Left Behind education act is actually getting results.
Autumn 2005 - The Triumph of Reason? by Theodore Dalrymple
Why bad theories never die
27 July 2005 - Don’t Fund College Follies by Heather Mac Donald
Alumni donors should promote the teaching of Western civilization—not the destruction of it.
Summer 2005 - Harvard’s Diversity Grovel by Heather Mac Donald
In earmarking $50 million for "diversity," President Summers is throwing away more than money.
Summer 2005 - Rating Mayor Mike by E. J. McMahon
City Journal’s Quality-of-Life Index shows things holding steady—except for a huge tax hike.
Summer 2005 - Education Policy in Wonderland by Charles Upton Sahm
The Campaign for Fiscal Equity collides with reality.
Summer 2005 - Cheating Great Teachers by Nicole Gelinas
It's past time for merit pay for Gotham's public school teachers.
Summer 2005 - The Charter School Revolution by Ryan Sager
Amistad Academy shows how good public schools could be.
Spring 2005 - On Campus, Conservatives Talk Back by Brian C. Anderson
The liberal stranglehold on academe is starting to slip.
Winter 2005 - The Classics in the Slums by Jonathan Rose
In 1988, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, president of the Modern Language Association, authoritatively stated (as something too obvious to require any evidence) that classic literature was always irrelevant to underprivileged people who were not classically educated. It was, she asserted, an undeniable 'fact that Homer, Dante, and Shakespeare do not figure significantly in the personal economies of these people, do not perform individual or social functions that gratify their interests, do not have value for them.'
Autumn 2004 - Give Us the Money! by Steven Malanga
President Bush's education reforms are driving the public school establishment crazy.
Autumn 2004 - Inclusive Failure by Theodore Dalrymple
Seeking equality, England dumbs down its schools, to nobody's benefit.
Autumn 2004 - Yes, the Education President by Sol Stern
Though attacked and belittled, George W. Bush’s education reforms represent real progress.
Summer 2004 - In Defense of Memorization by Michael Knox Beran
Progressive educators call it “drill and kill,” but learning poetry by heart empowers kids.
Summer 2004 - One Step Forward, Two Steps Back by E. J. McMahon
City Journal’s Quality-of-Life Index shows only partial success for the Bloomberg mayoralty.
Summer 2004 - Multiculturalism Starts Losing Its Luster by Theodore Dalrymple
Multiculturalism rests on the supposition—or better, the dishonest pretense—that all cultures are equal and that no fundamental conflict can arise between the customs, mores, and philosophical outlooks of two different cultures.
Summer 2004 - New York’s Fiscal Equity Follies by Sol Stern
Overreaching judges misdiagnose Gotham’s educational ills and will surely worsen them.
Spring 2004 - If Not Vouchers? by Brian C. Anderson
Why scholarship tax credits may be the way to go for the school-choice movement.
Spring 2004 - Destined to Fail by Sol Stern
Okay, we'll end social promotion. Then what?
Spring 2004 - Self-Reliance vs. Self-Esteem by Michael Knox Beran
Schools once embraced Emerson’s ideal of self-reliance, but modern educators have turned that core American virtue upside down.
Winter 2004 - The New Peaceniks by Kay S. Hymowitz
The foolishness of “peace education”
Winter 2004 - “Scholarship” as Advocacy by Steven Malanga
Governor Schwarzenegger should terminate the University of California?s ?labor centers.?
Autumn 2003 - Tragedy Looms for Gotham’s School Reform by Sol Stern
A fatal flaw may derail the mayor’s Herculean effort.
Autumn 2003 - Lord of the Flies 2003 by Kay S. Hymowitz
A horrific hazing incident at a middle-class high school raises disturbing questions about the values of some teens—and their parents.
Summer 2003 - Conservative Compassion Vs. Liberal Pity by Michael Knox Beran, Michael Knox Beran
Compassionate conservatism works because it addresses people as individuals rather than as faceless units in a throng.
Summer 2003 - Union U. by Steven Malanga
Labor studies programs on campus aren’t scholarship but propaganda.
Summer 2003 - Bloomberg and Klein Rush In by Sol Stern
Under these two, mayoral control of Gotham’s schools threatens disaster.
8 April 2003 - Queering the Schools by Marjorie King
Gay activist groups, with teachers’ union applause, are importing a disturbing agenda into the nation’s public schools.
Spring 2003 - Who Should Get into College? by John H. McWhorter
If the Supreme Court overturns race-based admissions, campuses can become truly meritocratic, diverse, and integrated.
Spring 2003 - How I Joined Teach for America—and Got Sued for $20 Million by Joshua Kaplowitz
An idealistic new Yale grad learns up close and personal just how bad inner-city schools can be—and why.
Winter 2003 - Compassionate Conservatism’s Next Step by Sol Stern
The president should jumpstart school reform with a D.C. voucher program.
Winter 2003 - School Daze by Sol Stern
Their new contract makes Gotham’s teachers spend more time in the classroom. But they’re frittering that time away.
Autumn 2002 - Berserkeley! by Stefan Kanfer
Since 9/11, the wackiest U.S. municipality has gone into outer space.
Autumn 2002 - Who Should Run Gotham’s Schools? by Sol Stern
The new chancellor needs the courage and vision to break completely with the system’s failed past.
14 July 2002 - The Civic Education America Needs by Victor Davis Hanson
September 11 reminded us that this country is exceptional. How do we teach that to our kids?
Summer 2002 - How the Mayor Should Fix the Schools by Anthony P. Coles
Okay, he won control. Now, how should he use it? Here’s a blueprint for reform.
Summer 2002 - Expurgated Exams by Stefan Kanfer
The New York Board of Regents pushes PC to its absurd outer reaches.
Summer 2002 - Fail Me, I Sue by Kay S. Hymowitz
Get ready for grade inflation by lawsuit.
Summer 2002 - The SAT Comes Full Circle by Heather Mac Donald
Proposed changes in the Big Test guarantee more racial special-pleading.
6 May 2002 - Maybe It’s Time for Abstinence by Kay S. Hymowitz
Study shows sex ed and contraception-on-demand make kids less sexually responsible.
8 April 2002 - The Prep-School PC Plague by Heather Mac Donald
Instead of forging a colorblind elite, these privileged schools stress everything that divides their newly diverse student bodies.
Spring 2002 - The Mau-Mauing at Harvard by John H. McWhorter
The fracas between Harvard’s new president and its top Afro-American studies profs highlights black academia’s fixation on victimhood and double standards.
Spring 2002 - The Man Who Predicted the Race Riots by Theodore Dalrymple
Not since I lived and worked briefly in South Africa under the apartheid regime have I seen a city as racially segregated as Bradford in the north of England.
Spring 2002 - How to Trivialize the Holocaust by Stefan Kanfer
The Jewish Museum’s “Mirroring Evil” is the most offensive show in town.
Spring 2002 - The Education Mayor? by Sol Stern
Michael Bloomberg may turn out to be Gotham’s biggest school reformer in half a century.
Spring 2002 - The Campus Diversity Fraud by John H. McWhorter
Colleges justify racial preferences in the name of diversity. It’s a hokey defense of a bankrupt policy that they should scrap.
Winter 2002 - GEDs Aren’t Worth the Paper They’re Printed On by Jay P. Greene
GED holders do much worse in later life than high school grads. It’s time for some truth in testing.
Winter 2002 - Toward a Usable Black History by John H. McWhorter
It will help black Americans to recall that they have a history that transcends victimization and exclusion.
Summer 2001 - Why Merit Pay Will Improve Teaching by Steven Malanga
Private industry shows the power of giving employees credit where credit is due.
Summer 2001 - Harold Levy’s Fuzzy Math by Sol Stern
The chancellor becomes just another defender of the staus quo.
Summer 2001 - Dems to Poor Kids: Get Lost by Sol Stern
New York’s Democrats mean to kill an education tax credit that would help poor families.
Spring 2001 - Flat-Earth Textbooks by Brian C. Anderson
Middle schools are using science textbooks riddled with errors.
Spring 2001 - More Columbines? by Kay S. Hymowitz
Experts say that schools are getting safer. They’re wrong.
Spring 2001 - Survivor:The Manhattan Kindergarten by Kay S. Hymowitz
Two years old already? Time for the young Master of the Universe to start building that resumé for getting into kindergarten.
Spring 2001 - Philadelphia’s Blackboard Jungle by Kay S. Hymowitz
When regulations keep teachers from disciplining, students run wild.
Winter 2001 - Don’t Junk Homework by Steven Malanga
The new anti-homework crusade deserves an F.
Winter 2001 - A Fair Day’s Work? by Sol Stern
The new UFT contract should make teachers earn their pay.
Winter 2001 - Lingua Franca by Ron K. Unz
It’s past time for New York to scrap bilingual ed.
Autumn 2000 - Some Alternative by Candace DeRussy
The New York Regents’ new alternative-certification program won't give New York more teachers or improve teacher quality.
Autumn 2000 - What is Public Education? by Lisa Graham Keegan
It doesn’t have to be what we have now: big, centralized districts, with ed-school-trained teachers. In Arizona, we have a better model: equal money for each kid, maximum choice, and tough standards.
Autumn 2000 - Falling Dominoes by Sol Stern
One by one, former voucher opponents are becoming supporters.
Autumn 2000 - An A for Home Schooling by Brian C. Anderson
It’s giving 2 million kids a good education, sound values, and a rich family life. If unaccredited parents can do it, why can’t the public schools?
Summer 2000 - The Texas School Miracle Is for Real by Jay P. Greene
Pundits charge that the Lone Star State’s sharply higher reading and math scores are smoke and mirrors.But they are rock-solid—and here’s the evidence.
Summer 2000 - Affirmative Reaction? by Roger Kimball
College kids say no to the shibboleths of their left-wing profs.
Summer 2000 - The NEA’s Racket? by Jay P. Greene
Is the nation’s biggest teachers’ union illegally spending tax-free millions on political campaigns?
Summer 2000 - Who Killed School Discipline? by Kay S. Hymowitz
Court decisions and federal laws have turned principals into psychobabbling bureaucrats. How can kids respect them?
Spring 2000 - Merit Pay for CUNY’s Profs by Heather Mac Donald
Here’s how CUNY can spruce up its medocre faculty.
Spring 2000 - The Right Way to Pick a Chancellor by Kay S. Hymowitz
The innovative head of Chicago’s public schools has some advice for New York City.
Spring 2000 - The Vanishing Teacher and Other UFT Fictions by Sol Stern
The union blames poor schools on low teacher pay, which drives away qualified teachers. It’s a purely political myth.
Spring 2000 - What’s Wrong with the Kids? by Kay S. Hymowitz
After Columbine, the whole nation— egged on by the press— is asking this question. The answer is disquieting.
Winter 2000 - Crew Flunks Out by Sol Stern
The chancellor became a captive of a dysfunctional system.
Winter 2000 - America’s Most Influential—and Wrongest—School Reformer by Sol Stern
The nation has eagerly swallowed all of Jonathan Kozol’s prescriptions for what ails the schools. It’s a cure that has made public education less healthy than ever.
Winter 2000 - An F for French Schools by Theodore Dalrymple
Adopting every foolish tenet of "progressive" ed, French public schools have become as bad as ours.
Winter 2000 - Room for Excellence? by Heather Mac Donald
Since the Schmidt commission on the City University of New York delivered its recommendations last June, public debate has centered on the thorny problem of remediation.
Autumn 1999 - Paranoid High by Wendy Shalit
After 55-year-old Richard Plass, an assistant principal and biology teacher at prestigious Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, pled guilty to molesting one of his 15-year-old students, school administrators deluged students with outside counselors and sexual-harassment lecturers.
Autumn 1999 - The Vanishing School Day by Sol Stern
When parents on Manhattan's Upper West Side sent their kids back to P. S. 87 last month, they doubtless assumed that teachers were ready to get back into the classroom and teach.
Autumn 1999 - Sign of the Times by Kay S. Hymowitz
The evening I visited Columbine High School, the Rocky Mountain foothills beyond one classroom window were turning a velvety green and black as the summer sun sank behind them.
Autumn 1999 - How Businessmen Shouldn’t Help the Schools by Sol Stern
Glamorous, yes—but the Principal for a Day program drafts businessmen, who ought to know better, into the wrong army.
Summer 1999 - Prophetic Minority? by Sol Stern
It was the term "teach-in" in the announcement from the Emergency Coalition Against Vouchers that first grabbed my attention.
Summer 1999 - A is for Activism by Heather Mac Donald
Worried that college students are spending too much time studying rather than protesting?
Spring 1999 - What Ever Happened to Reason? by Roger Scruton
The Enlightenment made explicit what had long been implicit in the intellectual life of Europe: the belief that rational inquiry leads to objective truth.
Spring 1999 - Campus Glasnost by Roger Kimball
The spectacle of the swift hand of injustice swatting that hapless Washington, D.C., aide who uttered the dread word 'niggardly' reminds us that the PC police still are out in force, patrolling college campuses, the business world, and government offices.
Spring 1999 - Race and Truth by Tamar Jacoby
The setting was a small liberal-arts college, the subject was race relations, and just a week or so after the shooting of Amadou Diallo, the audience--mostly minority students--was outraged.
Spring 1999 - Crew Mutinies by Sol Stern
Most striking about New York schools chancellor Rudy Crew's threat to resign over Mayor Giuliani's proposed experimental voucher program was its lack of proportion.
Spring 1999 - How Gotham’s Elite High Schools Escaped the Leveller’s Ax by Heather Mac Donald
Stuyvesant, Bronx Science, and Brooklyn Tech are everything the public school system has mistakenly tried to eradicate.
Spring 1999 - Our School Problem and Its Solutions by Diane Ravitch
Education is more crucial than ever in today’s knowledge-based economy, yet the public schools languish in mediocrity or failure. We can fix them through competition and tougher standards.
Winter 1999 - Progressive Ed’s War on Boys by Janet Daley
In Britain, progressive ed banished competition and testing as harmful and elitist. Result: underachieving young males.
Winter 1999 - Recivilizing SUNY by Carol Iannone
In December, the State University of New York's trustees did something shocking: they voted to approve a required core curriculum.
Winter 1999 - How Not to Fix Schools by Christopher Atamian
New York City's Board of Education wants to spend $11 billion to repair 231 crumbling public schools and build new classroom space--primarily in Queens--for 74,000 additional students.
Winter 1999 - New Yorkers Hate Bilingual Ed by Ron K. Unz
For 25 years, California's indefensible bilingual-ed system forced many of the state's 1.3 million non-English-speaking children to take their classes in their native tongue, guaranteeing that few became proficient in the English they need to succeed in America.
Winter 1999 - The Schools That Vouchers Built by Sol Stern
Now that Milwaukee and Cleveland have publicly-funded school voucher programs, we can see how vouchers work in practice. The verdict, after visits to four voucher-supported schools: a straight A.
Winter 1999 - Academic Freedom by John Leo
On a sunny November Saturday, when I showed up at Columbia University to give a speech, I learned that our sponsor had canceled my talk and five others.
Winter 1999 - Public Health Quackery by Heather Mac Donald
Public health professors now teach that social injustice, rather than individual behavior, is the true cause of disease—a sure prescription for a less healthy future.
Autumn 1998 - Yes, Vouchers Are Constitutional by Richard E. Morgan
Nothing in the U.S. Constitution or the state constitutions prohibits this highly popular school reform—as the current Supreme Court might soon agree.
Autumn 1998 - Cut the Ribbon and Run by Ned Regan
Stories of New York City's public schools crumbling while officials demand billion-dollar bond issues to rebuild them call to mind a day in June 1988, when Mayor Ed Koch, flanked by cameramen and reporters, ebulliently announced that subway service would be restored on the reopened Williamsburg Bridge.
Summer 1998 - An F for Hip-Hop 101 by Heather Mac Donald
At El Puente Academy, progressive education’s quest for “relevance” produces mighty strange results.
Summer 1998 - A School Reform Whose Time Has Come by Sol Stern, Bruno Manno
Thirty-three states boast charter schools—fully public schools demonstrably superior to those the public education monopoly runs. What’s keeping New York from climbing on board?
Summer 1998 - How Judges Are Making Public Schools Worse by William A. Fischel
In the name of fairness and equality, courts across the nation have outlawed using local property taxes to pay for schools. The result: worse education for all.
Summer 1998 - UFT Dress Code by Sol Stern
Not long ago, the Board of Education approved a resolution that required students in New York City's public elementary schools to wear uniforms.
Summer 1998 - Lite Wisdom by John Leo
Like many people, I can deliver a competent public speech without much fuss. But a commencement address is different.
Summer 1998 - Bad Vibrations at New Paltz by Roger Kimball
By now, the two sex conferences at the State University of New York at New Paltz last November have earned nationwide notoriety.
Spring 1998 - Why Johnny’s Teacher Can’t Teach by Heather Mac Donald
Ed schools purvey multicultural sensitivity, metacognition, community-building—anything but knowledge.
Spring 1998 - Sex Ed’s Dead End by Wendy Shalit
Sex education is another one of those solutions that only make the problem worse. Let’s shut it down.
Spring 1998 - The Rebirth of American History? by Sol Stern
In the schools, hopeful signs point toward a recovery of our national past—the glue that holds our common civic culture together.
Spring 1998 - No Bang for the Buck by Brian C. Anderson
We've heard the story how many times now? Just give us more money and more teachers and better facilities, the public school teachers' unions plead, and decades of educational failure will turn around.
Spring 1998 - A Winning Gambit by Matthew Robinson
American educators, in love with new fads and theories, fill our schools with ill-conceived panaceas--from the 'new math' to whole language to Internet surfing—meant to reverse three decades of academic decline.
Winter 1998 - School Choice: The Last Civil Rights Battle by Sol Stern
Thousands of the city’s children languish in a gulag of failed schools that spans three boroughs. The mayor should use the threat—and the reality—of vouchers to force the system to reform.
Winter 1998 - CUNY Could Be Great Again by Heather Mac Donald
The sixties turned the once-proud City University into a backwater of remediation and race politics. Time to change its course.
Winter 1998 - Candy from Babies by Brian C. Anderson
The New York Public Interest Research Group, one of 23 state-advocacy organizations operating under the umbrella of the Ralph Nader-inspired United States Public Interest Group, receives nearly $600,000 of its $3 million annual budget from CUNY student fees.
Winter 1998 - Diversity’s Limits by Wendy Shalit
'The university would be in chaos,' warned Ivan Marcus, a Yale history professor, 'if it bent over backward to accommodate everyone's sensitivities.'
Autumn 1997 - My Public School Lesson by Sol Stern
I sent my sons to New York City’s top public elementary school—and learned why the very best the school system can do just isn’t good enough, especially for minority kids.
Autumn 1997 - Nonsense in Any Language by Ron K. Unz
Over 1.3 million California schoolchildren from immigrant backgrounds, nearly a quarter of the state's entire public school enrollment, don't know English.
Autumn 1997 - Substandard by Heather Mac Donald
The perennial question for the City University of New York--just how low have academic standards sunk?--received a depressing new answer this May.
Summer 1997 - Special Ed and the Feds by Kay S. Hymowitz
An unwritten law of New York City politics has it that all issues eventually boil down to race and poverty.
Summer 1997 - Overheard by Julia Vitullo-Martin
Taking a seat on the Broadway local last February, I noticed three African-American youngsters bouncing around the subway car, laughing, talking, and punching one another.
Summer 1997 - Charter Laws That Work by Diane Ravitch
In January Governor Pataki proposed sweeping legislation that would give individuals and organizations the right to create public charter schools, either from scratch or by converting existing public schools.
Spring 1997 - Grading the Schools by Sol Stern
It was bad enough that the parents of New York City's public school students had to find out early this year that fewer than 1 in 3 of the system's third-graders read at or above grade level--a sure sign of educational bankruptcy.
Spring 1997 - How Teachers’ Unions Handcuff Schools by Sol Stern
No education reform can succeed until teachers’ unions stop demanding work rules that subvert education’s basic building block: the interaction between teacher and students.
Spring 1997 - Fixing Special Ed? by Kay S. Hymowitz
In a number of important announcements this fall, New York City Schools Chancellor Rudy Crew has given veteran watchers of 110 Livingston Street real reason to take heart.
Winter 1997 - Inching Toward School Reform by Diane Ravitch
Last month the State Legislature stripped New York City's community school boards of their power to hire district superintendents.
Winter 1997 - An F on the Regents by Linda Chavez
No habla ingles? Not to worry.
Winter 1997 - Catholic-School Canard by Sol Stern
Autumn 1996 - A Connecticut Yankee in Court by Walter Olson
Autumn 1996 - My Son Hamlet by Kay S. Hymowitz
Above my desk I keep a cartoon. A young man in Elizabethan dress broods at a Gothic window.
Autumn 1996 - Coming Clean About Brown by Richard E. Morgan
Time to tell the truth about the case that corrupted our constitutional law—and to pass a color—blind constitutional amendment at last.
Summer 1996 - Special Ed: Kids Go In, But They Don’t Come Out by Kay S. Hymowitz
A wrongheaded federal mandate and an all-embracing consent decree have created a costly, Kafkaesque system.
Summer 1996 - The Invisible Miracle of Catholic Schools by Sol Stern
They turn minority kids from the toughest urban neighborhoods into educated citizens who succeed. Why won�t New York join forces with them?
Summer 1996 - Regrets on Teen Sex by Kay S. Hymowitz
Summer 1996 - Teachers Against the Poor by Philip Murphy
Summer 1996 - Disturbing Admissions by Heather Mac Donald
Summer 1996 - J. Crew U. by Kay S. Hymowitz
Colleges’ glitzy advertising broochures promise a curriculum of boundless variety. And that’s the problem: without a common body of knowledge, too many students are getting an empty education.
Spring 1996 - Off Course by Sol Stern
Last fall my wife, an English teacher in a New York City public school, received a form letter from the Board of Education informing her that her teaching license would be terminated at year’s end unless she completed six college-level credits in special education and two in 'human relations.'
Spring 1996 - When Learning Comes Last by Lydia G. Segal
It’s become a rite of passage for New York City schools chancellors: Rudy Crew has become the fourth chancellor to suspend the school board in the Bronx’s Community School District 9 over allegations of corruption; he also suspended the board in nearby District 7, where a former assistant principal, to take just one example, said a board member asked her to pay him $18,000 for a principalship.
Spring 1996 - Albany’s New Deck Chairs by Sol Stern
New York State, ranking near the bottom nationally in education measures such as dropout rates and SAT scores, urgently needs to join the national debate about reforms like charter schools, vouchers, and privatization that would challenge the monopoly of the education establishment that has presided over such failure. But legislative leaders from both parties seem determined to protect that establishment's interests.
Spring 1996 - A Passing Fancy by Maribeth Vander Weele
When Charles Mingo, principal of Du Sable High School on Chicago's impoverished South Side, investigated the attendance records of his incoming freshmen, he discovered just how topsy-turvy Chicago's school system is.
Summer 1995 - Let's Seize This Chance for School Reform by Sol Stern
The teachers’ contract, a key bar to education reform, is up for renegotiation in New York, and union leaders say they’re ready for innovation. Here’s how to hold them to their word.
Spring 1995 - We Don't Want No Education by Theodore Dalrymple
Education has always been a minority interest in England. The English have generally preferred to keep the bloom of their ignorance intact and on the whole have succeeded remarkably well, despite a century and a quarter of compulsory schooling of their offspring.
Winter 1995 - Here's What We Have to Reform by Sol Stern
In the principal's office at the South Bronx's Morris High School hangs a faded picture of the school's most famous graduate, Colin Powell.
Winter 1995 - Scarcity by Design: New York’s Vanishing Supply Side by Stephen Kagann
Mr. Kagann, an economist with the New York City Council President's Office, discussed his view of the city's economy with city officials, opinion leaders, and journalists at a recent City Journal forum.
Winter 1993
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