Suchergebnisse

President Obama has laid the groundwork for an unprecedented centralization of education policy under the guise of promoting educational innovation, accountability, and improved student achievement. In reality, Obama's new national standards, curricula, and testing - in addition to huge spending commitments by the federal government ¬- shift the policymaking power from individuals and communities to the federal bureaucracy.In this Broadside, Lance Izumi examines Obama's education policies and shows us why Americans must protect and promote the power of individuals, especially parents, to contr

The essential question of education policy is neither complex nor vague. In fact, it is quite simple: What works? This collection of research brought to you by the Pacific Research Institute and the Hoover Institution will do much to help schools and parents answer this question. The contributors, some of the brightest minds in education research, have studied the most pressing questions about teacher quality and practices. They have reviewed thousands of education studies, closely examined state test scores, and explored education theories of the past thirty years in order to assess where we are and where we ought to be