Archive for Andrew J. Coulson
Charter Schools in Action by Chester Finn, Bruno Manno, and Greg Vanourek
Princeton University Press • 2000 • 288 pages • $27.95 With the publication of Charter Schools in Action, the authors aim to provide a definitive study of U.S. charter schooling at the end of the twentieth century, complete with a brief history explaining its origins and some tentative hypotheses about its future. They are, for [...]
1Apr2001 | Andrew J. Coulson | 1 comment | ContinuedFederal Control of Education Needed?
The New York Times recently apologized to readers for its cavalier treatment of the facts in the Wen Ho Lee case. If that editorial failure merited an apology, the Times should be refunding readers’ money for publishing Leon Botstein’s September 19 op-ed on education. Botstein claims that local control is causing our public-school problems and [...]
1Feb2001 | Andrew J. Coulson | 0 comments | Continued-
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