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Members of the Alabama Tea Party gather outside the Alabama Statehouse in January 2014 to protest the state’s adoption of the Common Core State Standards. Tea Party factions across the country have been among the most vocal grassroots critics of standards dubbed "Obamacore" by many [...]

Introduction The Florida League of Women Voters’ study on school choice was initiated to better understand the oversight of public moneys that are allocated to charter schools and other private educational institutions. How these public/private educational programs align with the constitutional requirement for a [...]

Why Have We Been So Disappointed? What Have We Learned? By Richard Rothstein | Originally Published at The Economic Policy Institute. [Download Report [pdf] May 17 is the 60th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 decision that [...]

Segregation Now…Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education, the schools in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, show how separate and unequal education is coming back. Though James Dent could watch Central High School’s homecoming parade from the porch of his faded-white bungalow, it had been [...]

Originally Published at National Education Policy Center. April 15, 2014 Reference Publication: Review of The Effect of Co-locations on Student Achievement in NYC Public Schools [Download the Report Below] Report omits statistical details and background research that could help readers fairly assess findings Contact: William J. [...]

The ‘Superpredator’ Scare After a surge of teen violence in the early 1990s, some social scientists predicted the future was going to be a whole lot worse. Reality proved otherwise. Click on the image above to view the video. By Clyde Haberman | Originally Published at [...]

The state: Why can’t you be more like private schools? Public school: What do you mean? The state: I mean their kids are learning, well-behaved and go on to do great things when they finish school. Your kids don’t seem to be [...]

Secretary Duncan Under Fire Originally Published at NewsHour March 28, 2014 Indiana, one of the 45 states that adopted the national Common Core educational standards, has became the first state to drop them. Across the country, anger over the federal government’s role in schools has been focused [...]

Reference Publication: Seeing Past the “Colorblind” Myth of Education Policy How current education policies are ignoring the racial disparities that contribute to the “achievement 
gap” and are failing to support the vibrant, diverse public schools more parents are demanding Contact: 
William J. Mathis, (802) 383-0058, wmathis@sover.net,
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