Andrew Coulson has some more details about Scripps Spelling Bee winner Evan O’Dorney and the public school-connected program through which he receives home-based instruction. I think the whole thing is pretty interesting, as is the growth of home-based charter and, in this case, public schools that appeal to parents who want to educate their children [...]
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Bee Careful…
Cato’s Andrew Coulson says that the success of homeschooled students in the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee shows market-based education is superior to public schooling. There are several obvious problems with this conclusion. Most obviously, making systemic arguments based on the examples of a few outliers is a fool’s game. Spelling bee success, while laudable, [...]
Competition and Standards: Better Together
Andrew Coulson’s WaPo op-ed today is fundamentally flawed because it treats standards and choice/competition/customization in education as mutually exclusive competing policy approaches, rather than what they really are–complements that are both more effective when combined. It’s no coincidence that the percentage of children attending publicly-funded schools of choice in the United States has increased significantly [...]
Limits of Evidence from Abroad on Vouchers
Andrew Coulson responds to my response to his argument that foreign voucher programs show that vouchers will expand the supply of high-quality schools serving poor kids. His arguments still aren’t convincing.
Coulson admits that Chile’s voucher program, while expanding the number of private schools, has done so much more for upper-income and middle-class, rather [...]
Vouchers: Building New Opportunities or Just Shuffling Students?
Andrew Coulson responds to my post below about the limitations of the vouchers-based market approach for improving the education of disadvantaged students. Coulson asserts I’m overlooking important evidence that vouchers can substantially expand the supply of quality schools serving disadvantaged students. I’m not unaware of this research, but I do not think it shows what [...]
Lowering Student Loan Default Rates: What One Consortium of Historically Black Institutions Did to Succeed 
College and Career-Ready: Using Outcomes Data to Hold High Schools Accountable for Student Success
03/19/10 | Ben Miller is quoted on college graduation rates and the NCAA Tournament in the Detroit Free Press.
03/19/10 | Linda Perlstein links to Education Sector's "College- and Career-Ready" event.
03/17/10 | Ben Miller's column on graduation rates and NCAA Tournament eligibility is mentioned on The Wall Street Journal's The Daily Fix.
03/17/10 | Kevin Carey's critique of Diane Ravitch's latest book is quoted in Doublethink's Conventional Folly blog.
03/15/10 | Ben Miller pens an op-ed for US News & World Report on using graduation rates to determine NCAA Tournament eligibility.