From Education Week: As the number of charter schools continues to grow, one facet of their autonomy—the ability to set and enforce independent disciplinary standards—has raised difficult questions about whether those schools...
Read MoreFrom Salon: Contemporary American politics cannot be understood apart from the North-South divide in the U.S., as I and others have argued. Neither can contemporary American economic debates. The real choice facing America in...
Read MoreOur friend and fellow blogger, Steve Ross, regularly shines light so people can find their own way (remember when Scripps-Howard said that was what its newspaper did), and today was no exception as he turned his attention to the...
Read MoreFor more than a decade now we have heard that the high-stakes testing obsession in K-12 education that began with the enactment of No Child Left Behind 11 years ago has resulted in high school graduates who don’t think as...
Read MoreFrom Governing: The political world of late has been gripped not by speculation about who will run for president in 2016, but rather by the possibility that several states could change the way they allocate their...
Read MoreFrom Citiwire, by Neal Peirce: It’s the most overt effort to rig elections for president of the United States that I’ve seen in a half century of analyzing and writing about our electoral college system. Perhaps you’ve seen the...
Read MoreFrom Burgh Diaspora: People move from high-tax states to low-tax states is a popular theory. This hypothesis is rational. Lower taxes spur economic activity which attracts prospective workers. Job opportunity drives migration....
Read MoreFrom New York Times: WHAT would it really take to give students a first-rate education? Some argue that our schools are irremediably broken and that charter schools offer the only solution. The striking achievement of Union...
Read MoreFrom Atlantic Cities: You might say that a number of cities are heading the other direction on one-way streets. Dallas, Denver, Sacramento, and Tampaare just some of the places that have converted one-ways into two-way streets...
Read MoreFrom New Geography: Republicans took an all around shellacking in the 2012 elections. Part of the reason is that Democrats dominated the cities. President Obama won 69% of the big city vote, according to a New York Times exit...
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