Jay Greene

Dec 19, 2024 | capitalismmagazine.com | Jay Greene

As part of the debate over whether to dismantle the US Department of Education, some have argued that the department should be disbanded because it has completely failed in achieving its purpose. Student test scores have not significantly risen over the last 42 years. Gaps in achievement between different racial and income groups have not closed.

Sep 10, 2024 | educationnext.org | Jay Greene

Josh Cowen’s new book, The Privateers, declares that “there is a vast right-wing conspiracy” that explains how “voucher advocates have managed to spread privatization plans in states across the country despite a growing number of data-backed arguments against those schemes.” Cowen also provides a brief and incomplete description of those “data-backed arguments” that fails to bolster his claim that a conspiracy is responsible for foisting choice policies on unsuspecting Americans.

Nov 7, 2023 | educationnext.org | Paul Peterson |Paula Arce-Trigatti |Jay Greene |Douglas N. Harris

For more than a century, children in the United States have been enrolled in public schools based on where they live, and pressure to improve public education has been mainly channeled through school board elections, inter-district housing decisions, and test-based accountability. Over the past 30 years, however, charter schools, vouchers, and public-school choice programs have challenged this model.

Nov 2, 2023 | educationnext.org | Michael Petrilli |Jay Greene |Paul Peterson |Matthew Levey

Excluded: How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don’t Seeby Richard KahlenbergPublic Affairs, 2023, $30; 352 pages. As reviewed by Matthew LeveyRichard Kahlenberg, a bespectacled, balding, Harvard-educated lawyer who grew up in a well-off suburb of Saint Paul, Minnesota, is a curious character to be called controversial.

Oct 16, 2023 | heritage.org | Jay Greene

At the height of the pandemic, Congress appropriated an additional $190 billion to the nation’s schools in the hopes of preventing students from losing ground academically. One thing school districts did with that influx of cash was to hire chief diversity officers. Rather than stemming learning loss, however, chief diversity officers exacerbated the problem, especially among minority students.