by Jack Jennings | Apr 4, 2015 | academic standards, accountability, common state standards, education research, federal education policy, federal funding, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), private schools / vouchers / and other choice, teachers, tests / assessments
The Phi Delta Kappan magazine (April 2015) contains an article written by Jack Jennings on the 50th anniversary of the enactment of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the fundamental federal law in the area of education. ESEA at 50 should be available through...
by Jack Jennings | Jan 23, 2015 | charter schools, federal education policy, No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), private schools / vouchers / and other choice, school funding, teachers, tests / assessments
In March the Harvard Education Press released a new book by Jack Jennings. Presidents, Congress, and the Public Schools analyzes a half century of national school improvement efforts, such as Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and the No Child Left...
by Jack Jennings | Aug 19, 2014 | academic standards, federal education policy, private schools / vouchers / and other choice, teachers, tests / assessments
It’s late August, and thoughts are turning toward getting the kids ready for school. It seems hardly a few weeks ago that school was over for the summer, and here it is time for them to go back. Kids will be in a higher grade than last year, and they are...
by Jack Jennings | Mar 28, 2013 | private schools / vouchers / and other choice
One in 10 U.S. students in grades preK-12 attends a private school, according to the most recent data from the U.S. Department of Education. Surprised it’s not a higher share? Perhaps even more surprisingly, the private school share of total enrollments has...
by Jack Jennings | Jan 23, 2013 | federal education policy, private schools / vouchers / and other choice
Daily, members of Congress orate on the need for American schools to improve. Yet today, the legislation authorizing every major federal program to assist education has expired or will soon lapse due to the lack of action by Congress. The only way these programs...
by Jack Jennings | Sep 12, 2012 | private schools / vouchers / and other choice
Mitt Romney has pledged that if elected president he will enact a voucher program that would allow parents of low-income and special needs students “to choose from any district or public charter school, or a private school where permitted by state law.”...
by Jack Jennings | Jul 27, 2011 | private schools / vouchers / and other choice
In the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s, private school advocates tried to build support for tuition vouchers, payments of public tax funds for private school tuition. President Richard Nixon most notably endorsed this idea. Proponents of vouchers argued that parents who...
