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Items in this update:
o Supplies and demands
o A different kind of drug war
o The world's most unselfish act
o Blame the teachers
o Literacy
o America's best web sites for school profiles
o Charter schools in Georgia
o Readying Massachusetts's next Generation of Citizens
o Still leaving children behind
o New tax law boosts school construction with public-private partnership
Dear Fellow School Reformers:
While we all support school choice of one form or another, we don't all have the opportunity to exercise it ourselves. Limited local opportunities
and family budgets pillaged by taxes have more than a few of us entrusting
the kids to the tender mercies of public schools.
So Jacob Sullum's recent ruminations in his syndicated column on the less-than joyful process of purchasing school supplies rings a familiar
bell for many people. While we nurse fond hopes that the kids will actually
learn something at school, and do our best to fill in the gaps at home, increasingly persnickety lists of must-buys for the kids don't always bode
well. What kind of educational priorities produce obsessive demands for color-coordinated binders?
Here's hoping for better options to come.
-------- I N T H E S P O T L I G H T ----------
Education Quality: Public schools get a failing grade
http://www.free-market.net/spotlight/edqu
ality/
Can public schools be made deliver the goods? Or does real reform lie in offering people more education options?
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==> Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews <==
Supplies and demands
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by Jacob Sullum
"Having recently returned from a back-to-school shopping trip, I can report that there was very little prancing
going on. The parents were too focused on meeting the highly specific requirements of the lists they had
received from their children's schools." (09/04/01)
http://reason.com/sullum/090401.html
A different kind of drug war
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by Tom DeWeese
"Today's schools are now places where your child can be found to be suffering from any one of a laundry list ofso-called psychological syndromes and required to join
the millions of others on a drug program that may keep things humming in the classroom, but may also produce
long-term mental and psychological damage." (08/29/01)
http://www.americanpolicy.org/educ/mai
n.htm
The world's most unselfish act
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by Karen De Coster
"If you don't homeschool your kids, that's your choice. However, keep your empty-headed slurs to yourself, shut
your mouth, and put these folks on a pedestal, because they deserve it." (09/05/01)
http://www.lewrockwell.com/decoster/dec
oster43.html
Blame the teachers
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by Greg Perry
"Unlike public school teachers, I don't blame the parents for the failure of the schools. I blame the teachers who
taught the parents. The government schools are a complete and utter failure. They should be closed."
(08/31/01)
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/perry4
.html
Literacy
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by Robert Klassen
"[T]he problem began with a proposal by Horace Mann in 1837 to stop teaching reading by the phonetic method and to
begin teaching reading by the 'whole-word' memorization method. Mann's method didn't work, so it was adopted by
teachers' colleges all over the country." (08/30/01)
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/klassen
10.html
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==> Online Resource Directories <==
America's best web sites for school profiles
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by Thomas Dawson and Mira Zawadzki
Directory of web sites with hard data on schools in districts across the nation including academic rankings,
test scores, pupil-per-teacher ratios, enrollment
totals, per-student expenditures, percentages of special-education students. (09/01/01)
http://www.heritage.org/reportcards/
Charter schools in Georgia
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Georgia's resource directory for charter schools. Includes information for those interested in starting a charter
school and the movement in general. (09/01/01)
http://www.gppf.org/education/charter
s.htm
For more Online Resource Directories see:
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==> Events <==
Readying Massachusetts's next Generation of Citizens
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September 25, 2001
Join the Pioneer Institute for its Pioneer Breakfast Forum featuring former Congressman Mickey Edwards who will
discuss a new White Paper titled Civic Education: Readying Massachusetts's Next Generation of Citizens.
http://pioneerinstitute.org/pdf/grogan.
pdf
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==> Introductions and FAQs <==
Still leaving children behind
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by Krista Kafer
More reasons why more money will not solve the education crisis. (09/01/01)
http://www.heritage.org/library/backg
rounder/bg1454es.html
New tax law boosts school construction with public-private partnership
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by Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D.
A little-known provision in the major tax bill signed into law in June will give cities throughout the country the
opportunity to build public school facilities faster,
better, and at lower cost by forming public-private partnerships with qualified real estate investors and
developers. (09/01/01)
http://www.heritage.org/library/backgr
ounder/bg1463.html
For more Introductions and FAQs see:
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ources/bycategory/brief/
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