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The ABCs of School Choice

Whether you support school choice or not, rallies and events across the nation kicked-off National School Choice Week on Monday. School Choice Week events are held annually to focus on providing effective education options for every child.

Best 11 Articles of 2011

Too busy to read every article every issue? Here’s another chance to read just some of the highlights of 2011.

Happy 10th Birthday NCLB... Let's Celebrate by Fixing It

If I had a dollar for every press release I received from an education advocacy organization expressing angst over the delay in reauthorizing the Elementary Secondary Education Act—known to most as No Child Left Behind (NCLB)—I could most definitely buy the new iPhone 4s I’ve been stalling on.

Educators have cried for years to fix the broken federal mandate signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2002. Their criticisms of the law’s emphasis on standardized testing, unfunded mandates, and harsh sanctions are legitimate and universal.

10 Years of NCLB

Jan. 8, 2012 marks the ten year anniversary of the No Child Left Behind Act. I participated in a conference call with RAND, to find out about research and trends in education today, ten years after NCLB went into effect. The RAND Corporation is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.