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28 Apr 2021 CLAIM: “We add two years of universal high-quality pre-school for every 3- and 4-year-olds in America. The research shows that when a young child goes to school—not day care—they are far more likely to graduate from high school and go on to college,” President Joe Biden said in his prepared remarks. VERDICT: MOSTLY FALSE. A study published in the 2018 Early Childhood Research Quarterly by Mark Lipsey, Dale Farran, and Kelley Durkin found that the evidence does not support ...

By Jude Schwalbach | April 29, 2021 | 2:11pm EDT Children sit in a COVID-19 pandemic-era kindergarten classroom. (Photo credit: GEORGE FREY/AFP via Getty Images) The Biden administration’s recently released budget request would significantly expand the federal footprint on education through a greatly accelerated education spending spree. The administration requested nearly $103 billion for K-12 and higher education—a 41% funding increase—for the Depar...

If you wanted to understand Andre Ramsey, you wouldnt look at a test score. A test score couldnt tell you about the hardships he faced after both his parents went to prison when he was a toddler. It couldnt tell you how, as a third grader, he dreamed of going to Harvard as soon as he saw a picture of the campus. It couldnt tell you about the late nights studying, the volunteer work, the almost unfathomable number of clubs hes joined and leadership positions hes held. So when Ramsey, now a s...

Nebraska’s Education Choice Opportunity Nebraska students’ scores on each NAEP test dropped significantly, the Urban Institute found. The achievement gap for the states students is wider than the national average and growing. Its time to try something different. (Photo: Will and Deni McIntyre/Getty Images) Commentary By Lindsey M. Burke is director of The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Education Policy and Mark A. Kolokotrones fellow in education. Read her research. At first glance, Neb...

Alabama lawmakers hope ‘outside the box’ approach attracts new math and science teachers Updated 8:50 AM; Today 7:42 AM The map shows the type of state school governance by color and the states ranking on the 2019 NAEP 8th grade math results. Facebook Share Five years ago, former Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley infamously said the state’s education system “sucks” as test scores in math sank near the bottom nationwide. In 2019, the scores did just that: The National Assessment of Educati...

email article A couple of weeks ago, I received a text from my aunt that included a link to a physician-created YouTube video about the COVID vaccine. This creator has built her fame and fortune as an anti-vaccination proponent. Knowing that her videos are rubbish, I ignored the text. A couple of days ago, though, I received the same text message, this time with my aunt imploring me to "PLEASE READ!" I went back and forth on whether to respond or not and ultimately decided to take the bai...

More Good News On School Choice  Share   Share Trending I’m pessimistic about the direction of public policy, especially on fiscal issues such as taxes and spending. But there is a silver lining to this dark cloud of statism. We’re seeing continuing progress on school choice, most notably a big expansion of educational freedom in West Virginia. It appears more and more state and local policy makers are reaching the inevitable conclusion that government schools operate for the benef...

A Huntersville Elementary student works on a reading lesson. The pandemic created a host of immediate challenges, but the key to long-term economic recovery is teaching North Carolina’s children to read. That’s according to state lawmakers who recently passed a new “science of reading” bill and a group of CEOs who gathered recently to support that strategy. Theyre pinning their hopes on what some might consider an unlikely source of inspiration: Mississippi. Earlier this month, Republi...

Arkansas Has a Major School-Choice Opportunity — Unless Misguided Opponents Get in the Way Jason Bedrick © Pixabay In a year when the school-choice movement is gaining traction across the nation, progress in Arkansas had appeared to stall. But a month after the Arkansas legislature killed a school-choice bill, the state senate has breathed new life into efforts to expand educational opportunity. In response to families demanding more educational options, six states have alre...

Print this article (Pixabay) A bill in the state legislature would help families, private schools, and public schools. So why are the state’s superintendents obstructing it? In a year when the school-choice movement is gaining traction across the nation, progress in Arkansas had appeared to stall. But a month after the Arkansas legislature killed a school-choice bill, the state senate has breathed new life into efforts to expand educational opportunity. In response to fami...