On February 17th, I posted to this blog some thoughts on the ubiquitous "international assessments" of achivement. From the acc...

On Monday, May 14, Arizona Republican Governor Jan Brewer vetoed SB 1259, the bill written by ALEC and K12 Inc. lobbyists that would have gr...

Education Policy Analysis Archives recently published an article by Audrey Amrein-Beardsley and Clarin Collins that effectively exposes th...

Washington Post Op-Ed page staff writer Jo-Ann Armao enthused at length on Friday about the miraculous things happening in the erst-while ...

For the past few weeks, I have been corresponding with some film producers who—encouraged perhaps by the commercial success of "Waiting...

Governor Brewer (R-AZ) caused a bill to be killed that would have greatly expanded the Arizona voucher program. Enacted a few years ago, the...

As a very young child, I was fascinated by my grandmother’s collection of button hooks. It was the mid-1940s and high button shoes had been ...

The Arizona Tuition Tax Credit has been the subject at this blog on a couple of occasions. In its early form it drew the incredulous att...

Eric Hanushek testifies in school finance cases. Again, and again, and again. Thirty-some years ago in the Maryland (Hornbeck) case and mos...

Today, Jennifer King Rice's critique of a Thomas B. Fordham Foundation report on the cost of full-time online K-12 schooling was publi...