Politics Roundtable

Bob Holland, an education policy analyst at the Lexington Institute , describes the growth of non-union teacher associations :

Without much fanfare, teachers have been resisting pressures to join or stick with the dominant labor unions such as the National Education Association. ...

Once you believe that achieving color balance on campus is a legitimate reason for giving preferences in college admissions, I suppose that this is the next logical step:

Also Thursday, several trustees expressed dismay about the gender imbalance at UNC-CH , ...

John Podhoretz hits the nail perfectly on its head :

THE REAL SCANDAL IN AMERICA TODAY...is the season finale of the ABC series "Lost." The show is about survivors of a plane crash on a strange island. The tropical island features an invisible monster, ...

Arguing that the teacher unions are losing the school choice debate, Ryan Sager points to the charter school application filed by the New York union (the UFT) as evidence that they just don't get it:

* Charter schools typically improve student performance in ...

Matt Miller, author of The Two Percent Solution thinks he has developed a merit pay plan that teachers unions will like--and it will ...

Jay Mathews of the Washington Post profiles a single mother and her four kids who are using school vouchers in D.C. They have an unusually long commute, but they think it's worth it :

Thanks to their federal vouchers, the four children are getting ...

Americans may be "bowling alone", but the Internet is invigorating other parts of civic life :

Five years after sociologist Robert Putnam documented the decline of community involvement in his book Bowling Alone, a new spirit of civic engagement is flourishing, largely because of ...

Last week, Jenny D. worried about the effect of Advanced Placement tests on curriculum :

[W]hat if the push for AP has unwittingly made the College Board the arbiter of what is a good high school curriculum? ... I'm starting to wonder if AP ...

Sergio Perodin, Jr. , survivor of Castro's 1994 Massacre of the Tugboat 13th of March, upon his graduation from high school (registration required):

I was only 7 years old and living in communist Cuba. My parents yearned for freedom and dreamt of coming to America. ...

Lisa Snell, the Reason Foundation's director of education, points out that the Florida Supreme Court's upcoming ruling on whether the state's school voucher program violates the state constitution will have repercussions beyond Florida . Other states have similar Blaine Amendments in their constitutions ...