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Are Oklahoma School Districts Cheating?
It was “the year of the test cheating scandal,” the Associated Press reported as 2011 drew to a close. Has that scandal come to Oklahom...
Education’s Missing Apple
There are many great schools in our nation’s innercities, yet the overall poor performance in these areas persists. Why? The assumpti...
Do Parents Know Best?
In Democracy in America, Tocqueville warned that if despotism were to come to America, it wouldn’t be your garden-variety despotism. “It...
Horace Mann, False Prophet
Horace Mann, generally regarded as the father of America’s current public school system, once predicted: “Let the Common School ... be w...
When Higher Ed Gets Defensive
Hell hath no fury like the higher education establishment scorned—or even challenged, for that matter. Some background: In May 2008, th...
Education Establishment Prefers Low Voter Turnout
Ever wonder why local school boards often represent their constituents poorly? It’s because most of Oklahoma’s center-right majority doe...
Parents Deserve Preschool Choices
In each of the last two years, thanks to a special-needs scholarship bill signed by Gov. Brad Henry and an equal-opportunity scholarship...
Are Public School Teachers Underpaid?
My colleague at The Heritage Foundation, Jason Richwine, along with co-author Andrew Biggs of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), h...
Our Profitable (and Profligate) Universities
Undergraduate education is a highly profitable business for nonprofit colleges and universities. But how, you may ask, can a nonprofit ...
How Does Your School District Stack Up Internationally?
The Global Report Card, which Jay P. Greene and Josh B. McGee discuss on page 4, “enables users to compare academic achievement in math ...
Oklahoma’s ‘Best’ School Districts Are Mediocre
The problems of Oklahoma City and Tulsa Public Schools are well known. What is much less understood is that many of Oklahoma’s affluent ...
Let’s Diversify Our Preschool Portfolio
Proponents of prekindergarten (pre-K) believe that children need to be institutionally prepared for kindergarten. For example, there are...
Beware the U.S. Department of Education SWAT Team
Add the U.S. Department of Education to the list of federal agencies that can invade your home at gunpoint and hold you and your family ...
What to Expect from Enrolling in College
Oklahomans have many options to choose from when selecting a college. Information—specifically, information concerning the value added f...
The Year of School Choice
When I bet Jay Mathews of The Washington Post that school choice would have a banner year in 2011, I had no idea what kind of forces I w...
Education in the Digital Age: Policy Reforms to Improve Learning Op...
Across the nation, a growing number of students are benefiting from innovative online learning options. These options range from full-t...
Jenks Puts the ‘Early’ in Early Childhood Ed
Question: When has early childhood “education” officially gone off the rails? Answer: When a public-school handbook feels the need to i...
Hope and Change: In Praise of Universal Preschool Choice
Two years ago in Oklahoma City, Nobel Prize-winning economist Dr. James Heckman made the case for early childhood education. No surprise...
Spring School-Board Elections Are Bad for Democracy
In a fascinating study of interest group influence on school board elections, Stanford political scientist Sarah Anzia offers new reason...
Top 10 Reasons Oklahoma Regents Should Cut, Not Raise, Tuition
Last month Oklahoma’s higher education regents approved tuition and fee increases for the state’s public colleges and universities. No s...
