The Testing Bogeyman Is Alive and Well in Missouri
A version of the following commentary appeared in the Columbia Daily Tribune. If we believe it’s essential for schools to teach...
Hanging Up on Smartphones in Missouri Public Schools
Smartphone use has become a national debate. As technology has advanced, cell phones have changed from devices for simple communication...
Want Higher Teacher Salaries? Raise Property Taxes
In the past year, much has been made about Missouri’s teacher salaries. According to the National Education Association, Missouri ranks...
Breaking: The Actual Starting Teacher Salary According to DESE
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and other major media outlets in Missouri, continually claim that Missouri teachers are, on average, the...
Missouri Is 49th in a Meaningless Statistic!
Earlier this week a headline came across my Twitter feed blaring “Missouri ranked No. 49 in state K-12 funding in...
Teachers Unions Set Their Sights on Micro-schools
Kelly Smith is a very nice guy. On his Twitter profile, he describes himself to his 400 followers as a...
Are Government Unions Adequately Informing Workers of Their Rights?
Following the Supreme Court’s 2018 ruling in Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), there was...
Missouri’s Government Union Reforms Still Tied Up in the Courts
It’s been more than a year since Missouri legislators passed House Bill (HB) 1413 into law, which at the time...
Missouri’s Starting Teacher Salary Is Higher Than Previously Reported
“Missouri ranks 49th nationally in average starting teacher salary at $31,842.” This quote comes from an ABC 17 news report,...
Charter School Unionization: An Innovative Approach
Al Shanker, longtime leader of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), was an early cheerleader for public charter schools. Though...
Teacher Survey Makes Case for More Government Employee Freedom
Happy National Employee Freedom Week! The American Association of Educators (AAE), a freedom-promoting alternative to the National Educator Association (NEA)...
Missouri’s Teacher Equity Plan Draft Misses the Mark
Is a teacher with a master’s degree in biology and several years of research experience unqualified to teach high school...
The Teachers’ Union Cycle
Last week, Time Magazine released an article titled “Teachers Unions Are Putting Themselves On November’s Ballot,” which reported that the...
Common Core Doesn’t Put the CCSS in Success
In previous posts on the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), I’ve written about the consequences of federal overreach, which, in itself,...
Who Is In It For The Kids, Teachers’ Unions Or Charter Schools?
In an impassioned address to the media, Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis stated the reasons the teachers’ union would...
Collective Bargaining Under the Missouri Constitution
As the Springfield News-Leader reports, Judge Michael Cordonnier of the Greene County Circuit Court handed down a very important decision...
Margaret Spellings on the Teacher Shortage
Margaret Spellings spoke about alternative teacher certification in Jefferson City yesterday: She pointed to federal programs such as Teach for...
Worth a Thousand Words
Here’s another Internet harassment case. This time, a woman complains that she’s been harassed by a kid. A high-school boy...
Truthiness and School Choice
On Sunday, the Columbia Daily Tribune juxtaposed two columns on school choice: one by David Webber (which Sarah Brodsky already...
Learn From Others’ Experience With School Choice
On Nov. 6, voters in Utah decided to stay the course with the state’s underachieving educational status quo, voting down...
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