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USA Today on Freedom from Responsibility5 comments

matthewladner wrote 3 days ago: (Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) USA Today has an editorial piece on Victor and Miguel Mendoza, two Am … more →

Tags: Freedom from Responsibility, Goldwater Institute, Miguel Mendoza, USA Today, Victor Mendoza

Freedom from Responsibility Preview part Deux26 comments

matthewladner wrote 1 week ago:  (Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) In the end more than they wanted freedom, they wanted security. Whe … more →

Tags: civic knowledge, Edward Gibbon, Freedom from Responsibility, Goldwater Institute, High school civic knowledge, Matthew Ladner

Teasing Out Freedom from Responsibility19 comments

matthewladner wrote 2 weeks ago: (Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) I have a new study coming out from the Goldwater Institute called Fr … more →

Tags: Goldwater Institute, High school civic knowledge, Matthew Ladner

Democratic Control of Schools2 comments

Jay P. Greene wrote 2 months ago: Yesterday the New York Times profiled a school district in which the democratically elected school … more →

Tags: teacher union, arne duncan, Barack Obama, Jay Greene, Jay P. Greene, NY, Rockland Country

All Hail!3 comments

Greg Forster wrote 5 months ago: (Guest post by Greg Forster) I guess they heard how much money is going to be thrown at schools in … more →

Tags: Politics, Economics, Greg Forster

School Voucher Mythbusters2 comments

Greg Forster wrote 6 months ago: (Guest post by Greg Forster) A while back, I posted this to help people find comprehensive lists of … more →

Tags: money myth, Vouchers, competitive effects, Special Ed., school funding, Greg Forster, Friedman Foundation, Myth Busters

PJM on Colleges - and PJM Column Authors - Who Lack the Guts to Punish Cheating2 comments

Greg Forster wrote 7 months ago: (Guest post by Greg Forster) You may have heard about the Texas prof who was fired for publicly disc … more →

Tags: Greg Forster, pajamas media, Cheating, Loye Young

Dallas ISD Caught Faking SS Numbers - And Keeps Doing It1 comment

Greg Forster wrote 7 months ago: HT Scot Free (Guest post by Greg Forster) The Dallas Morning News is reporting that Dallas ISD was … more →

Tags: Greg Forster, Immigration, Dallas ISD, social security numbers

More Quantification of Greatness5 comments

Greg Forster wrote 7 months ago: (Guest post by Greg Forster) I was so excited by my effort at quantifying greatness yesterday … more →

Tags: Pedagogy, Alex Beam, Great Books, Greg Forster

The Misunderstood Greatness of "Great" Books6 comments

Greg Forster wrote 7 months ago: (Guest post by Greg Forster) Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal carried a review of Alex Beam … more →

Tags: Pedagogy, Greg Forster, Wall Street Journal, Alex Beam, Robert Landers, Mortimer Adler, Great Books, Best of Greg

Even I Agree - This Is a Bribe8 comments

Greg Forster wrote 8 months ago: (Guest post by Greg Forster) Last month I got into a little back-and-forth with Fordham’s Lia … more →

Tags: Baylor University, Bribe, Fordham Institute, Greg Forster, Liam Julian

Memo to Gadfly: History Failure Is a Historical Problem

Greg Forster wrote 8 months ago: “Okay, Mr. Hancock, if you’re so smart, how many of the freedoms protected in the Magna … more →

Tags: school accountability, Civics, Education Gadfly, Greg Forster, History

PJM on Civics Ignorance2 comments

Greg Forster wrote 9 months ago: (Guest post by Greg Forster) Over the weekend, Pajamas Media carried my column on the centruy-long f … more →

Tags: Vouchers, Greg Forster, pajamas media

Civics Ignorance: A Very Long Track Record of Public School Failure8 comments

Greg Forster wrote 9 months ago: (Guest post by Greg Forster) Around these parts we sometimes discuss the failure of civic education … more →

Tags: Greg Forster

Good Schools Don't Reward Students . . . Except When They Do4 comments

Greg Forster wrote 9 months ago: (Guest post by Greg Forster) Last week I ran a column on Pajamas Media defending the practice of pr … more →

Tags: Charter Schools, Greg Forster, Liam Julian, Fordham Institute, Sweating the Small Stuff, neo-paternalism, KIPP

PJM on Cash for Test Scores

Greg Forster wrote 10 months ago: (Guest post by Greg Forster) This morning, Pajamas Media carries my column on schools giving out cas … more →

Tags: Greg Forster, pajamas media, cash for grades

The Meta-List: An Incomplete List of Complete Lists4 comments

Greg Forster wrote 10 months ago: “The Treason of Images,” Rene Magritte, 1928-29 (”This is not a pipe.”) (Gu … more →

Tags: competitive effects, Research Reports, Vouchers, Greg Forster, meta-list

Che Studies3 comments

Jay P. Greene wrote 10 months ago: The Arizona Republic’s Doug MacEachern has a column today on the Raza Studies program in Tucso … more →

Tags: Politics, Jay P. Greene, Jay Greene, Raza Studies, Doug MacEachern

The ALA Double-Standard?2 comments

Jay P. Greene wrote 10 months ago: Last week I had a post observing that high school reading lists were much less likely to contain fem … more →

Tags: Jay P. Greene, Jay Greene, censorship, American Library Association


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