Despite no proven correlation between spending and student achievement, Big Education relentlessly demands—and gets—more and more money.
Governor Walz's Due North Education Plan does not include student outcomes, which limits meaningful measures of student gains in competency and achievement.
With the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) tests in fourth- and eighth-grade reading and math postponed for at least a year (originally scheduled for spring 2021), we will not…
According to experts and a growing body of research, a scientifically-based literacy program is the most effective way to improve literacy and reduce the achievement gap. But teachers are often…
Will he stand up for every child, or just be another politician?
A recent report by the American Enterprise Institute, "Still Left Behind: How America's Schools Keep Failing Our Children," shows, among other things, that large proportions of lower-income eighth graders in…
Only 37 percent of U.S. 12th graders met or exceeded the academic preparedness benchmark for college in reading on the 2019 reading assessment. In mathematics, only 24 percent of high…
A national survey released just a couple of days before Rosh Hashanah shows younger adults between the ages of 18 and 39 have a shocking lack of knowledge about the…
The false narrative that inadequate funding is the root of our education problems paints Minnesota as a state allergic to accountability.
A new American Experiment report found troubling declines in academic achievement in Minnesota, zero progress in college readiness, and persistent racial disparities, despite a well-funded education system that accounts for…
What if I told you everything in the conventional narrative about Minnesota’s education system is believed by facts that point to a different conclusion from what we’ve been told?
Eighth graders across the country don’t know U.S. history that well, according to newly released 2018 national test scores. The decline in history scores marks a bitter irony, given present…
Aspirational Page-Kashkari constitutional amendment will fail.
This article was originally published by the Star Tribune. Minnesota schools, like schools across the nation, have been striving for decades to shrink the stubborn racial learning gap. The frustration…
We all accept that Minnesota imposes high taxes. Some argue that that's a fair price to pay for all the absolutely necessary stuff the state government does for us in…
There is no link between high tax burdens and a state being a nicer place to live or having a better education system.
No matter how it is framed, the most recent scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress paint a troubling picture of reading achievement in the country. One possible culprit:…
Minnesota’s education rankings are generally a source of pride for the state. This new research suggests that we ought to think again.
The evidence shows that, when looking at 'quality of life' measures, low tax states do as well as high tax states.
Minnesota has high taxes and lousy roads. It has high taxes and good educational outcomes, but other states have better outcomes with much lower taxes. The idea that Minnesotans get…
Minnesota's education rankings are generally a source of pride for the state. A new report suggests that we ought to think again.
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) just released its most recent results, for 2017. How did the country’s fourth and eighth graders do in reading and math? More-or-less the…
The U.S. Census Bureau recently released a report that lists per pupil spending by each state for fiscal year 2015. Take New York for example: the state spent over $21,000…
It was reported this week that national high school graduation rates reached an all-time high of 83.2 percent for the 2014-15 school year. This is good news. As is the…