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The role of calculators in elementary school mathematics remains pretty bitterly controversial among both teachers and people with Ideas(tm) about education. The anti-calculator camp argues that students internalize the elementary principles of mathematics better when they are required to...

One, because being overly focused on standardized test scores is a big part of what built the mess in the first place. Two, because the Japanese system is built around Japanese culture, whose values are in many important ways *antithetical* to American values and thus should not be emulated...

Most available information is on charter schools, which as you know are essentially public-private hybrids. Fully private schools aren't required to release the same stats. In Washington DC, where charter schools are very popular and make up fully 41% of all "public" schools, information...

For the record, I'm dubious about "school choice" as a concept. Much of the superior academic performance of private schools comes from the one-two punch of having more resources because they can charge whatever they want and being able to simply expel any students who are low performers and/or...

West Virginia currently ranks 47th or so in school performance, so they have *almost* nowhere to go but up. We'll see how it works out.