Joanne Jacobs
Rhodes scholar: Mom finagled a better school
“Hazim Hardeman’s mother wanted a better school than the family’s North Philadelphia neighborhood could offer her son,” writes Susan...
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Joanne Jacobs
Nov 19, 20172 min read
Let teachers control training, classroom $
Choice is good for teachers too, argues Mike Goldstein, founder and former CEO of Match Education in Boston, and former Chief Academic...
Joanne Jacobs
Nov 14, 20172 min read
How parents choose schools
One daughter goes to a small, fast-paced STEM-focused school with few arts, language, sports or extracurricular options, Fordham’s Jeff...
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 29, 20172 min read
The best school? Or the one with the best students?
Parents don’t choose the most effective schools, according to an analysis of New York City’s high school application system, reports Gail...
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 5, 20171 min read
Florida vouchers boost college-going
Low-income Florida students who used a tax-credit-funded scholarship to attend private school were more likely to enroll in college,...
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 1, 20171 min read
Parents have high hopes, but not always realistic
Parents have high, but not always realistic, hopes for their children’s futures, reports Sarah D. Sparks on Education Week. Nearly 70...
Joanne Jacobs
Sep 26, 20171 min read
Blacks leave Minneapolis district schools
Parents cite “safety concerns” and “a belief that academics elsewhere are better,” they write. MPS “has struggled for years to close the...
Joanne Jacobs
Sep 25, 20171 min read
Millennials support school choice
Millennials strongly support school choice — including taxpayer-supported tuition vouchers and charter schools — according to surveys by...
Joanne Jacobs
Aug 30, 20171 min read
PDK: 1/3 of parents prefer public schools
Fifty-two percent of Americans oppose “allowing students and parents to choose a private school to attend at public expense” in the 2017...
Joanne Jacobs
Aug 15, 20171 min read
Charters lose support, but fewer oppose choice
Public support for charter schools has fallen among Democrats and Republicans, but opposition to school vouchers and tax-credit-funded...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 19, 20172 min read
Anti-choice folks choose for their own kids
People who exercise choice in educating their own children want black parents to exercise patience, writes Sharif El-Mekki, principal of...
Joanne Jacobs
May 5, 20171 min read
Indianapolis innovates
Indianapolis is expanding school choice, writes David Osborne in Education Next. In addition to having a mayor who can authorize charter...
Joanne Jacobs
May 4, 20172 min read
If charters work, do vouchers fail?
Washington, D.C. students who win the voucher lottery earn lower math scores than lottery losers, especially in elementary school,...
Joanne Jacobs
Apr 30, 20171 min read
Well-off liberals choose mostly white schools
Parents who have a choice tend to choose high-scoring schools! And those schools usually have lots of affluent and middle-class white and...
Joanne Jacobs
Mar 24, 20172 min read
Special ed vouchers help some, but not all
Many states offer vouchers for students with disabilities, writes Christina Samuels on Ed Week. “Many parents who accept those options...
Joanne Jacobs
Mar 20, 20172 min read
Sowell’s rise: Eddie told him to switch schools
Thomas Sowell Thomas Sowell was born poor and black in North Carolina in 1930. In a Wall Street Journal interview with Tunku Varadarajan,...
Joanne Jacobs
Mar 6, 20172 min read
Choice wars
New America’s Kevin Carey lamented “dismal voucher results” in the New York Times, which followed with an editorial calling choice an...
Joanne Jacobs
Mar 5, 20171 min read
Trump backs choice, but what’s the plan?
President Trump wants to spend $20 billion on school choice for “disadvantaged youth.” Families “should be free to choose the public,...
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 16, 20172 min read
Choice saves millions in Milwaukee
Milwaukee’s school voucher program will save taxpayers half a billion dollars in the long term, writes Jason Crye, executive director of...
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 8, 20172 min read
Old-time politics explains anti-DeVos crusade
Against a nominee for a not-very-powerful Cabinet job, Democrats “went to the barricades,” writes Ross Douthat in a New York Times....
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