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School Choice's Southern Surge
April 03, 2013
The last few years have seen dramatic expansion of school choice across the country, and Southern states make up the majority of recent adopters.    Just last year, Virginia and Mississippi approved their first-ever private school choice programs. 2012 also saw the enactment of Louisiana's "Tax Credits for Donations to School Tuition Organizations," a program focused on private school choice options for low-income...
Competition Creates Competence
March 12, 2013
Competition in education has been studied multiple times, and each time the results are the same, competition improves performance. To explain this away different distractors are thrown out, but the results are always a shade of, "competition, created by choice, equaled effective education". Creating competent students is the key to building a successful society. The students of today represent the leaders of tomorrow.  ...
A Bleak National Picture and a Solution Gaining Steam
March 11, 2013
In 2012, the U.S. Department of Education declared that 20% of American graduates were functionally illiterate. Nationally,  only 13% of graduating students were labelled "proficient" in U.S. History. The class of 2012 also scored the lowest average SAT reading scores of the last 40 years.    The need for reform is evident, and people are eager to see it take place. A recent Gallup poll  found that 44% of...

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