Open-Source Alternatives May Disrupt Billion-Dollar Textbook Industry
Affton School District in St. Louis will take part in the U.S. Department of Education’s #GoOpen campaign, a new federal...
Million Student March Proposes Free College and Debt Forgiveness
Nearly one in five students who attend community college in Missouri will default on their student loans within three years,...
Default Rates among Missouri Colleges and Universities
The table below (data from the U.S. Department of Education) displays default rates for Missouri colleges and universities over a...
Student Loan Default in Missouri
Like many twenty-somethings, I am kept up at night—not by noisy neighbors, but by my student loan debt. I’ll be...
No Child Left Behind the Times
Technology has given us some amazing things over the years, but you don’t see people using VHS and cassette tapes...
Corinthian College Crisis
At its peak Corinthian Colleges had over 100 colleges throughout the United States and Canada, including Everest College campuses in Earth City, Kansas...
Missouri’s Teacher Equity Plan Draft Misses the Mark
Is a teacher with a master’s degree in biology and several years of research experience unqualified to teach high school...
ESEA: What Should Reauthorization Look Like?
Although the Show-Me Institute typically focuses on state-level education policy issues, discussions regarding the controversial Elementary and Secondary Education Act...
Education: A Brief History Of Federal Overreach
When Americans think of federal overreach in education, they might think of programs like Race to the Top, Common Core,...
I’ll Scratch Your Back, If You Comply With This Federal Mandate
Last October, my students learned a few vocabulary words — amendment, judicial review, and furlough. The government shutdown created what...
TFA Experiment Has Been A Success
“I’m sorry, ma’am, but your child will have a Yale grad teaching him math and a Harvard grad teaching science...
Common Core: A Well Intentioned Disaster
Dr. James Shuls on Common Core as originally reported in the Show-Me Institute’s June 2013 Newsletter: Milton Friedman once...
DESE Should Consider District Level Waivers
Let’s recap. In 1965, the United States Congress passed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) as part of Lyndon...
Awarding Funding for Low Performance Encourages Failure
According to this Post-Dispatch article, only the worst-performing schools were eligible for recent School Improvement Grants awarded by the U.S....
Let a Thousand Schools Bloom
The New York Times ran an excellent article on Friday critiquing the idea that all students should attend college. A...
The Possibilites and Limitations of Educational Alternatives
Last week, I wrote that we needed many more options in education than the traditional public school. In his latest...
Race to the Internet
Missouri intends to give only half of its Race to the Top grant, should it receive one, to districts. The...
Texas Keeps Out of the Race
In the Race to the Top, Texas is prudently sitting on the sidelines. Texas’ education commissioner explains why it’s not...
Campaign Enlists “Sesame Street” to Improve High School Education
Do U.S. high school students score poorly on math and science tests because of too many commercials and not enough...
The Story of Stuff Update
Recently I returned to The Story of Stuff Blog to see what had transpired since I last wrote about The...
