Collective Bargaining and the Student Achievement Gap
A new analysis finds the best students are better off, while disadvantaged students are worse off, when teachers collectively bargain for a contract.
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The Educational Gap for Infants
Genes for mental ability get a boost from socioeconomic status in a study of baby twins.
Tiger Moms: The Benefits of Eating Bitterness
A Western mother sending her children to public school in Shanghai comes down firmly on both sides of the debate about author Amy Chua and Tiger Moms.
Science Leaches Out of Science Class
Political scientists studying U.S. public school biology instructors find a majority of teachers — a "cautious" three out of five — are at best tepid in defense of evolution.
Texas Children: Canaries in the Coal Mine
A report by the nonpartisan Texans Care for Children finds that glaring social problems borne by Texas' children have resulted from its state government's policies.
Do Asian-American Parents Push Their Kids?
Does the Tiger Mother get it right? While some view Asian-Americans as pushy, stressing their children into exceptional achievement, research doesn’t bear out that stereotype.
Affirmative Action Bans: Who Gets Hurt
Blacks and Latinos who apply to the most selective public universities in some ‘race-blind’ states are being reshuffled downward to lower-quality schools, researchers say.
Charter Schools: What Would Dr. King Say?
Responding to a defense of charter schools’ record on integration, education professor and blogger James Horn argues that where there’s smoke there is indeed fire.
Of Course the Civil War Was About Slavery
Concrete concerns about saving and expanding slavery, and not the nebulous theology of states’ rights, ignited the U.S. Civil War. Why does that message keep getting lost?
Charter Schools and Equal Opportunity
Charter schools don't foster segregation, argues the former CEO of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, but they do reflect the environments where they toil to create equal opportunity.