All Posts Tagged With: "Horace Mann"
School and State: A Neat Solution to the Neatby Dispute
Daniel Hager is a writer and consultant in Lansing, Michigan. Before there was Rudolf Flesch there was Hilda Neatby. In 1955 Flesch published Why Johnny Can’t Read, a bestseller that charged the U.S. educational system with malfeasance for not correctly teaching young students how to read. Two years earlier Hilda Neatby (1904–75), a University of [...]
1Dec2003 | Daniel Hager | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Origins of the Public School
Hardly anyone disputes the contention that the modem public school is seriously flawed. Test scores continue to be poor while metal detectors are found in the more violent schools. Welfare-state liberals argue that schools in poor areas need more money to place them on an equal footing with their richer counterparts. Conservatives usually reply that [...]
1Jul1998 | Robert P. Murphy | 6 comments | ContinuedCompetition in Education: The Case of Reading
Mr. Hager is a senior research associate with Patrick Henry Associates, a consulting firm. An earlier report on H.O.P.E. Academy appeared in the June 1992 issue of The Freeman. The nature of accountability in the public and private sectors is fundamentally different. Perhaps nowhere is the contrast more vivid than in education, particularly the teaching [...]
1Apr1997 | Daniel Hager | 2 comments | Continued-
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