There is little doubt that Title IX has led to the explosive growth of women’s sports programs, but at what cost?
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The Black and Hispanic Graduation Problem
Instead of putting out false statistics that mask the failure of public education, state officials should be pushing model schools like the American Indian Public Charter School. For the sake of our children, it’s time to be honest and implement what works.
No Recruit Left Behind
Three Congressmen have teamed with four Pittsburgh punk rockers to fight an obscure provision of the No Child Left Behind Act.
A Head Start for the Achievement Gap
Policymakers have long thought the solution to the achievement gap to be in early childhood education.
Wrestling with Title IX
For more than 30 years, Title IX of the Education Amendments has been heralded as the reason for the increase in the number of women’s athletic programs across the country and providing opportunities for women like Mia Hamm to compete on the college level.
The Child Abuse of Teacher Union Politics
As Dr. Cheri Yecke shows in her study, “Kids, Schools, and Politics: Protecting the Integrity of Taxpayer Resources,” teacher-union politicking does not begin when the school day ends.
Not So Great Expectations
A new report issued by Achieve, Inc. reveals yet another shortcoming in the education system, the “expectations gap.”
1+1=?
Those of us who suffered through the old math nevertheless saw the nice, linear relationship between the first numbers that we learned to add and subtract and the checkbooks that we had to balance later in life. Today’s public school students are not always so fortunate.
Graduating In Real Time?
Look to your right, look to your left. One out of three high school students may not graduate, an education analyst at a Washington, D. C. think-tank found.
Exam Angst
From kindergarten to college, no one hates tests more than the students forced to take them, with the possible exception of the schools forced to administer them.