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Niche.com, Inc. is a Pittsburgh, PA-based company that evaluates and ranks K-12 schools, colleges, cities, and neighborhoods. They recently released their 2015 ranking of public schools and school districts in each state, as well as a national ranking of private and public schools and districts.
Published: Thursday, January 29th, 2015 @ 8:56 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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What better way to begin 2015 than to discuss per-pupil expenditures for our K-12 public schools? According to the N.C. Department of Public Instruction, the state increased its average expenditure by around $200 a student for the 2014-2015 school year. At this time next year we will be able to...
Published: Wednesday, January 21st, 2015 @ 9:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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This week, the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank located in D.C., released a new report on educational productivity. This study attempts to gauge the effectiveness of school district spending, that is, "bang for the buck."
Published: Sunday, July 20th, 2014 @ 9:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In his book Education Myths, University of Arkansas professor Jay Greene pointed out that the myth of inadequately funded schools "is simultaneously the most widely held idea about education in America and the one that is most directly at odds with the available evidence."
Published: Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014 @ 10:34 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We have heard it time and time again. Teachers are demoralized, depressed, and dissatisfied. If lawmakers do not do something fast, then thousands of teachers will leave the state or the profession.
Published: Friday, February 7th, 2014 @ 11:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It has been nearly three years since the left-leaning Center for American Progress published a superb report, Return on Educational Investment: A District-by-District Evaluation of U.S. Educational Productivity. In the report, CAP Senior Fellow Ulrich Boser made the case that decades of...
Published: Monday, December 16th, 2013 @ 9:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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It has been nearly three years since the left-leaning Center for American Progress published a superb report, Return on Educational Investment: A District-by-District Evaluation of U.S. Educational Productivity.
Published: Thursday, December 12th, 2013 @ 3:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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