As you read what follows about how charter schools came to be in 1991, you may want to keep track of the number of early players whose animus towards the…
The Chicago Tribune just penned an excellent editorial in support of reformer Betsy DeVos to head the U.S. Department of Education: A few weeks ago, Massachusetts voters rejected a major…
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…
It’s not exactly rocket science. Students can’t learn much if they skip class. More than 100,000 Minnesota students were AWOL for 15 days or more in the 2013-14 school year–nearly 13 percent…
Much is rightly made about the importance of tolerance and sensitivity on the part of religious majorities towards religious minorities. But what about the reverse? What about the importance of…
Teachers are in crisis over the disarray and the threats unleashed by policies of 'equity.'
This is the newest installment in Dr. Pearlstein’s year-long review of how well Minnesota and U.S. students are doing in various international and other comparisons. This one takes a different…
The Center's founder recalls the Center's earliest days, its ongoing triumphs, its occasional challenges, then looks to the future.
Over 25 years, Center of the American Experiment has evolved into a creative architect of market-based policy ideas. And the best is yet to come.
If you had asked us which of the many proposals in the Minnesota Policy Blueprint would be taken up by bipartisan leadership in both the House and the Senate, we…
Very high rates of family fragmentation in the United States are subtracting from what very large numbers of young people are learning in school and holding them back in other…
The Indispensability of Competition and Choice in Minnesota K-12 Education | K-12 education in Minnesota faces many problems...