This book explores a wide range of critical areas in education, examines the basic nature of our education problems, provides a clear understanding of underperformance, and proposes reasonable and effective strategies for success.

School Reform: The Critical Issues (Hoover Institution Press Publication, No. 499)

Education & Teaching

Evers, Williamson M.

Izumi, Lance T.

Riley, Pamela A.

Schools & Teaching

Hoover Institution Press

President Obama has laid the groundwork for an unprecedented centralization of education policy under the guise of promoting educational innovation, accountability, and improved student achievement. In reality, Obama’s new national standards, curricula, and testing in addition to huge spending commitments by the federal government shift the policymaking power from individuals and communities to the federal bureaucracy. In this Broadside, Lance Izumi examines Obama’s education policies and shows us why Americans must protect and promote the power of individuals, especially parents, to control children’s education. We should look to the revolutionary school-choice and parental-empowerment laws passed by key states and other nations such as Canada. While Obama is pushing American education in the wrong direction, we can steer it back to local control.

Obama's Education Takeover (Encounter Broadsides)

Encounter Books

Parents know how important good schools are when they are deciding where to buy a new house. That’s why they are willing to stretch their budget for a home near a “good” school. But they should not be fooled by the tree-lined streets and expensive real estate – the neighborhood schools may not be as good as they think, according to the findings in Not as Good as You Think: Why the Middle Class Needs School Choice. The book takes readers on a driving tour of some of California’s best neighborhoods and supposedly some of its best schools. Many parents have found out the hard way that despite what they have been told about their neighborhood schools, many of these students are not performing at grade level, let alone ready for college.

Not as Good as You Think: Why the Middle Class Needs School Choice

Murray, Vicki E.

Chaney, Rachel S.

Pacific Research Institute

Not as Good as You Think: The Myth of the Middle Class School shatters the myth that good schools are found in nice neighborhoods. Using data on school performance and interviews with parents, students, principals, and school reformers, Not as Good as You Think confirms every parent s silent fear: that their financial sacrifice and investment in an expensive home in a good school district is not yielding the achievement results needed to get their kids into good colleges and good jobs. The film takes audiences on a tour of America s best neighborhoods from posh Orange County, California, to the hotbed of innovation, Silicon Valley, to the lush green hills of Tennessee to reveal that schools in America s middle class and affluent neighborhoods are not adequately preparing kids for higher education, or worse, operating under widespread corruption. The film also contrasts the American public school system with that of Sweden s, a socially progressive country that allows parents, at government expense, to choose any school that fits their children s needs private of public no matter the parents income.

Not as Good as You Think: The Myth of the Middle Class School

Pipes, Sally

Itchon, Rowena

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