Innovative Teaching Methods Key to STEM Growth
A new publication by the NCPA explains how it is a great time to be a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) major in Texas. Dallas made Forbes‘s list of the top 10 cities for STEM jobs...
View ArticleTeachers Need the Freedom of Professionalization
Jack Schneider’s policy recommendations to improve teaching ― for teachers and children ― would not address the problems cited by star teacher, Nancie Atwell. She said that teachers are being made...
View ArticleThe Student Diversity Issue Addressed by an Elite Thinker, a CEO… and a Boy
By Corey DeAngelis and John Merrifield In a famous TED Talk from 2013, How to escape education’s death valley, Sir Ken Robinson points out a problem with the comprehensively uniform traditional...
View ArticleHow Some Community Colleges Are Improving Student Performance
Approximately 40% of college freshmen must take remedial courses for which they do not receive credit. Too often they do little better in these English and math courses than they did in high school. Of...
View ArticleYoung Children Need More Play Time, Not Class Time
In American schools, young children are being pushed into more structured, teacher-directed class time. Play-based kindergartens and now even preschools, have been replaced largely by drilling and...
View ArticleWhy Teachers are Leaving Education
Education is a common professional field in the U.S. with 3.4 million full-time-equivalent teachers in both public and private schools across the nation. Additionally, perhaps more than any other...
View ArticleStudents Could be Taught to Analyze Primary Sources
In the past year there has been quite a bit of controversy, especially in Texas, regarding history curriculum. When the Texas Board of Education voted in November of 2014 on textbooks in Social...
View ArticleTeacher Pay — A Scarcity Issue?
What is scarce is valued more highly than what is common. This basic economic principle explains the high value of diamonds, the competition between contestants on The Bachelorette and why pennies are...
View ArticleNo Child Left Behind, now Every Child Succeeds Act, Lacks Accountability
With bipartisan support in Congress and President Obama’s blessing, the latest version of No Child Left behind, called Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), is here. While it returns some power to the...
View ArticlePlease De-Personalize School System Failure
One of a series of Education Week articles on the New Orleans School System ten years after Katrina discusses the mass firings of the New Orleans (NOLA) public school teachers. A common theme of the...
View ArticleDon’t Let the Opt-Out of Common Core Testing Movement Fool You
While the Common Core and its testing programs may have their issues, there exists a major national movement to end testing for students because they say that the testing has undermined schools, hurt...
View ArticleBrain-Dead Discussion of Teacher Supply Issues
In a February 10, 2016 Education Week article, Daarel Burnette II described several strategies to increase the number of applicants for teaching positions, including to replace “droves of teachers...
View ArticleAmazing that Teachers Tolerate Teacher Union Opposition to Transformational...
Two recent Education Week articles reminded me how I got to meet Milton Friedman, and along with another great, Myron Lieberman, what led to my critically acclaimed 2001 book, The School Choice Wars....
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