Month: January 2020

Disability Rights Advocates Are Fighting the Wrong Fight on School Choice – by Robin J. Lake

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Many respected national groups have recently set their sights on school choice as the new battlefront for disability rights. They are anywhere from open to highly skeptical to adamantly opposed to charter schools and private school choice, often aligning with teachers unions to try to block new proposals or to re-regulate existing policies. @ribamarjunior via Twenty20 This oppo...

In the News: Seeing Hope for Flagging Economy, West Virginia Revamps Vocational Track – by Education Next

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Dana Goldstein looks at efforts to retool and expand vocational education, now called career and technical education, in West Virginia in a front-page story for the New York Times. Long one of the poorest states, it is now leading the way in turning vocational education from a Plan B for underachieving students into what policy makers hope will be a fuel source for the state’s...

Why Delaying School Start Dates is a Bad Deal for Students – by Martin R. West

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The scene would have been a civics textbook come to life—had that textbook been produced by the state of Maryland’s summer tourism industry. Flanked by local politicians and business owners, Republican Governor Larry Hogan took to the Ocean City boardwalk on August 31 to announce a new executive order directing all public schools in the state to delay the start of classes until...