Tag: American Enterprise Institute
A charter academy delivering ‘classical’ education grows in popularity
Editor’s note: This article from Rick Hess, resident scholar and director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, appeared recently on edweek.org. You can listen to a podcast with reimaginED executive editor Matt Ladner and Great Hearts Online executive director Kurtis Inforf here. Great Hearts Academy launched in... READ MOREAngry parents are school choice advocates-in-waiting. Duh.
Editor’s note: This commentary from Robert Pondiscio, a senior fellow...
READ MOREThose lights are off on purpose
In the American film classic “The Blues Brothers,” a pair...
READ MOREDoes school choice need bipartisan support?
Jay Greene and James D. Paul gathered data for a...
READ MOREFollowing the lead of education savings accounts to cover student assessment costs would put more information, choice in parents’ hands
If you wanted to determine, tomorrow, if your child was...
READ MORE‘Cold water’ for boosters of education savings accounts?
In the vision laid out by their strongest supporters, education savings...
READ MORELowering the paperwork barrier for charter schools
A recent report by the American Enterprise Institute, which we...
READ MORESetting a high bar for charter schools, without unnecessary burdens
Charter schools were first conceived as a bargain. Teachers (or,...
READ MOREHow regulations affect private schools’ participation in choice programs
A new survey suggests excessive regulation of school choice programs...
READ MORENew schools needed: How to make school choice markets work
For the past two decades, hundreds of thousands of mostly...
READ MORERick Hess on school choice, Common Core and for-profits in education
For those who dismiss the potential upside of for-profits in...
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