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Adam Emerson
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01/27/12 | Adam Emerson
Ranking reform, embracing audacity
When the Wall Street Journal blessed 2011 as the Year of School Choice, few advocates for public and private school options passed up the chance to celebrate the benediction. But...
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01/25/12 | Adam Emerson
What history can teach our school choice debates today
It’s hard to miss Dick Morris. The former presidential aide and Fox News contributor has raised the volume on his rhetoric during the last couple of days to promote National...
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01/17/12 | Adam Emerson
School choice, subsidiarity and the common good
Subsidiarity is an organizing principle rarely discussed outside the Catholic Church and the European Union, and it’s a shame so few academics and advocates of school choice in the United...
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01/12/12 | Adam Emerson
It’s time to move beyond old assumptions about vouchers
School voucher critics generally approach their job reviewing the research on school choice with unfair assumptions, and otherwise insightful commentators risk recycling old canards. This is true with Thomas Toch’s...
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01/06/12 | Adam Emerson
Dozens of Philly Catholic schools to close or combine
From The Philadelphia Inquirer: The Archdiocese of Philadelphia plans to close four Catholic high schools and 44 elementary schools will be closed or partnered with other schools, officials told school...
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01/05/12 | Adam Emerson
A bleak future for a saint’s legacy
Today, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of St. John Neumann, a Philadelphia bishop who is credited with establishing the first unified system of Catholic schools under a diocesan board....
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12/21/11 | Adam Emerson
A modest, yet radical proposal
Now that MacArthur “genius” Roland G. Fryer’s new paper on school inputs and effectiveness is beginning to get attention, it seems appropriate to look back at the most pioneering of studies...
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12/20/11 | Adam Emerson
Forming school communities on the basis of choice
Boston University professor Charles Glenn, one of redefinED’s newest contributors and an expert on comparative school choice policy, has taken to the journal First Things to further explore what he...
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12/16/11 | Adam Emerson
On for-profit education, what motivates a reporter
If it feels to the education reformer that The New York Times and The Miami Herald have made grand attempts to gore the growing presence of for-profit education providers, it’s because they...
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12/15/11 | Adam Emerson
Michigan charter bill passes; cross-district enrollment effort stalls
Earlier today, the Michigan Senate approved a measure that ultimately removes the limits on the number and location of charter schools in the state, ending a battle fought almost entirely...
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12/14/11 | Adam Emerson
Proposed repeal of Florida’s Blaine Amendment off state ballot — for now
A Florida judge has ruled that language in a proposed repeal of Florida’s Blaine Amendment is ambiguous and misleading, and has ordered the Secretary of State to remove the proposal...
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12/14/11 | Adam Emerson
Private school options empower more than just children
At the Dropout Nation, editor RiShawn Biddle visited his archives and resurrected his examination of the school choice movement and his call for black churches to open their own schools. “They...
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12/07/11 | Adam Emerson
On next-generation funding
Writing in Education Week, Paul T. Hill, the director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education, says today’s school funding arrangement developed haphazardly, a product of politics and advocacy, not design: Simply...
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12/07/11 | Adam Emerson
Number of charter school students soars to 2 million
From The Associated Press: The number of students attending charter schools has soared to more than 2 million as states pass laws lifting caps and encouraging their expansion, according to...
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12/02/11 | Adam Emerson
What it (once) meant to be a Democrat
This month, former Senator George McGovern frames his beau ideal of the crusading and committed progressive in his new book, What It Means to Be a Democrat. Addressing issues as...
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12/01/11 | Adam Emerson
George McGovern on vouchers now — and then
NOW: From the book, What It Means to Be a Democrat, published this month by Blue Rider Press, former Senator and presidential candidate George McGovern writes: Yes, I’m sure that...
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11/30/11 | Adam Emerson
While flawed, a new effort shines light on the demand for school choice
The Brookings Institution’s ranking of school choice met with mixed results today, and properly so. But one conclusion that may escape attention should have profound implications for choice and school governance in the...
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11/28/11 | Adam Emerson
The Quiet Audacity of Michigan
I spent the Thanksgiving holiday in my home state of Michigan, where labor and public employee unions exhibit outsized-influence in the public square. If you want to know just how...
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11/23/11 | Adam Emerson
A look into Constrasting Models of State and School Choice
RedefinED contributor and American Center for School Choice associate Ashley Berner has reviewed Boston University professor Charles Glenn’s newest book and look into comparative school choice policy, Constrasting Models of...
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