School choice

Why Florida succeeds where Nevada fails

NAEP scores demonstrate that education reform really works

March 25, 2010 | by Patrick R. Gibbons

Nevada needs to copy educational reforms that have actually worked.

A new approach in Nevada education

Our focus must be on student achievement, not spending levels

March 15, 2010 | by Patrick R. Gibbons

Nevada's leaders need to change their focus from funding to student achievement.

Power to the pupil

Howard Fuller fights for educational choice

February 24, 2010 | by Patrick R. Gibbons

Howard Fuller, a former black-nationalist community organizer and long-time education reformer, sees education reform as the civil rights fight of the 21st Century.

A voice for the Hispanic community

Anthony Colón's fight for education reform

February 9, 2010 | by Patrick R. Gibbons

Anthony Colón, an education consultant, says Hispanics must have a voice in the education reform movement.

Assessing the governor’s education reforms

The conversation is heading in the right direction

January 25, 2010 | by Patrick R. Gibbons

Governor Jim Gibbons' proposed education reforms represent a step in the right direction.

Financing Entrepreneurial Education: Part IV

Do empowerment schools produce real educational achievement?

January 6, 2010 | by Patrick R. Gibbons

Empirical evidence shows school decentralization produces real educational achievement.

Financing Entrepreneurial Education: Part III

Let’s fund student results – not make-work jobs for adults

December 30, 2009 | by Patrick R. Gibbons

Public education — where all is supposedly "for the children" — has a dirty secret: Its real organizing principle is jobs for adults.

Frivolous in Florida

Education-funding lawsuits don’t boost student achievement

December 28, 2009 | by Patrick R. Gibbons

Education-funding lawsuits have led to more spending, but not to greater student achievement.

Financing entrepreneurial education: Part II

The commanding heights of public education

December 23, 2009 | by Patrick R. Gibbons

When will education bureaucrats stop trying to run local schools?

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