Ashley Rogers Berner

Sep 19, 2024 | the74million.org | Ashley Rogers Berner

Get stories like these delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter Education in the United States remains incredibly partisan, and the presidential race offers no relief. Red states want less exposure to race and gender in schools; blue states want more. Red states expand school choice laws; blue states shrink them. Players on all sides pitch education as a zero-sum game.

Sep 19, 2024 | mercatus.org | Ashley Rogers Berner

Get stories like these delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter Education in the United States remains incredibly partisan, and the presidential race offers no relief. Red states want less exposure to race and gender in schools; blue states want more. Red states expand school choice laws; blue states shrink them. Players on all sides pitch education as a zero-sum game.

Jun 10, 2024 | americanhabits.org | Ashley Rogers Berner |Ray Nothstine

Better Government Civic Education Interviews The meaning of federalism and democracy Ashley Berner is director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy and associate professor of education. Palgrave MacMillan released “Pluralism and American Public Education: No One Way to School” in 2017, and Harvard Education Press published her new book, “Educational Pluralism and Democracy: How to Handle Indoctrination, Promote Exposure, and Rebuild America’s Schools,” in April 2024.

May 14, 2024 | cardus.ca | Daniel Proussalidis |Ashley Rogers Berner

Educational pluralism is an approach to the structure and content of school systems in which the government funds and regulates, but does not exclusively deliver, public education. In North America today, support for educational pluralism (or, in US parlance, “choice and academic accountability”) is often perceived as a right-of-centre position. A close examination of the record, however, suggests that this characterization misses the mark.

May 10, 2024 | thehill.com | Ashley Rogers Berner

From Nebraska to Tennessee to Oregon and beyond, this year has brought another round of school-choice debates, often portrayed as a “right-wing” issue. But if you think right-of-center policymakers own the movement, think again. Yes, Republican governors are more likely to promote charter schools and public funds for private school attendance while the pro-charter, pro-accountability Democrats for Education Reform have no apparent influence in President Biden’s White House.