Make Good (School) Choices
Johns Hopkinsâs Ashley Berner and the Manhattan Instituteâs Andy Smarick discuss options and tradeoffs in restructuring American public education.
Johns Hopkinsâs Ashley Berner and the Manhattan Instituteâs Andy Smarick discuss options and tradeoffs in restructuring American public education.
Ashley Berner makes the case for a pluralist structure that embraces district, charter, and private schools, while insisting on quality.
The Manhattan Institute’s Andy Smarick discusses how an intelligent system emerged in American education over many years.
Johns Hopkins’s Ashley Berner discusses the benefits and tradeoffs of a pluralistic approach to education in America.
According to a new American Compass survey, parents have a different answer than activists and policymakers do, writes Oren Cass.
PRESS RELEASEâEducation reformers have lost sight of what most Americans say public education is for, according to a new American Compass survey.
The American Compass Failing on Purpose Survey explores the perspectives and experiences of those in closest contact with the American education systemânamely parents, current students, and recent graduates.
Public education must instill civic virtues and shared allegiances.
Public education must advance national power.
Public education must form a virtuous elite.
How We Forgot What Public Education Is For
PRESS RELEASEâEssay series explores how public education is failing in both practice and principle
Public education’s primary purpose is preservation of our democratic republic.
Public education must empower the common citizen.
A broad rethinking of work and human capital development is occurring while 10.4 million jobs sit unfilled and more than 8.4 million unemployed individuals look for work.
Most so-called snowflakes accumulate not in societyâs quiet valleys where we might expect to find gentler souls genuinely struggling to cope with conflict, but rather atop the peaks of elite institutions to which our most aggressive strivers have clawed their way.
What we gave our children (and paid dearly for) was a mountain of debt and no job opportunities to be had. So much for the American Dream.
Almost two-thirds of U.S. high school graduates enroll immediately in some form of postsecondary education with a clear-cut motive. In 2019, 83.5% of entering freshmen said that getting a better job was a âvery importantâ reason for attending college, up from a 1976 low of 68%. Are these expectations realized? Mostly no.
Parents who live their lives according to religious principles should be able to find a school in which they are welcomed, not attacked or undermined.
The essential elements of a new opportunity program are what students know (knowledge) and whom they know (relationships).
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