August 10, 2017
This op-ed by Jeanne Allen appeared in National Review on July 27, 2017. Randi Weingarten wanted to teach me a lesson. I remember my mother wanting to teach me a lesson — or ten — over time, but they were usually grounded in experience and truth. https://twitter.com/rweingarten/status/888507577171976192 Weingarten, the infamous head of the American Federation […]
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August 4, 2017
Dear Friends: Some of you may be old enough to recall that, once upon a time, the Center produced a good, old-fashioned newsletter—THE MONTHLY LETTER TO FRIENDS—written up, laid out, sent to a printer, stuffed, stamped, and delivered to homes and offices all across America via the U.S. Postal Service (a process nearly as archaic […]
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August 1, 2017
This op-ed written by CER Founder and CEO Jeanne Allen appeared in National Review on July 28th. Education opportunity should be the price Illinois governor Bruce Rauner demands in return for Chicago getting its pension bailout. Unless Governor Rauner and the Democratic leadership in control of Illinois’s house and senate agree to a new education-funding […]
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August 1, 2017
This op-ed written by Jeanne Allen, the founder and CEO of the Center for Education Reform appeared in the Orange County Register on July 28th. A Supreme Court decision that could change the balance of power in schools from system power to parent power is well-known in policy circles but not by the general […]
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July 14, 2017
“The data analysis strategy for the Duke report is poorly designed, using both different comparison groups and different tests, ... ”
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July 13, 2017
by Jeanne Allen, Founder and Chief Executive The white paper “North Carolina Opportunity Scholarships: Countering a Flawed Duke Report,” developed by Brian Jodice of Parents for Educational Freedom in North Carolina (PEFNC), is not only a victory for scholarship programs but for honesty in research which, when it comes to school choice issues, is often […]
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July 11, 2017
PERSONALIZED LEARNING GAINS… a big endorsement from a newly released RAND report which finds that students who engage in PL do better in math than their peers and gives an added boost to kids who are behind their classmates and trying to catch up. The report also found that schools in the study “were pursuing […]
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June 29, 2017
Beyond the First 100 Days: Transforming government’s role in education A reiteration of its January, 2017 recommendations to the Trump Administration, and an extension for completion of the work that must be performed. Read & download the PDF here
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