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Bad Teacher? Blaming teachers distracts from what really hurts our schools
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) By Robert Mann Whether we realize it or not, most of us view public policy questions through certain frames or narratives. For example, if you hate the very idea of taxes,...
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New report: “family income appears more determinative of educational success...
By Robert Mann The evidence keeps piling up on the relationship of poverty to poor student/school performance. The latest is in a new report, “Poverty and Education: Finding the Way Forward,” released...
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Education reform? Or “reign of error”?
(Photo credit: mahlness) By Robert Mann Like so many business leaders, the Indiana ice cream executive was sure he knew what ailed his state’s education system. Schools weren’t being run like...
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Big Easy, Little Choice: Is New Orleans-style school choice a model or a...
New Orleans parent advocate Ashana Bigard By Ashana Bigard When I talk about “choice” in New Orleans I use quotations with both fingers and I wink, too. Supposedly we have what’s called a “choice model...
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Bobby Jindal and David Vitter are both hypocritical on Common Core
By Robert Mann When I listen to Gov. Bobby Jindal and Sen. David Vitter fight over Louisiana’s participation in Common Core, it sounds like the dispute of a dysfunctional family, in which the parents...
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Rick Perry’s ‘crimes’ pale in comparison to Bobby Jindal’s
#167978887 / gettyimages.com By Robert Mann Some liberals have celebrated the recent indictment of Texas Gov. Rick Perry on charges of abuse of power. I’m not among them. His opponents couldn’t beat...
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A dupe or a liar? Jindal’s frivolous federal Common Core lawsuit
By Robert Mann If there was ever a politically motivated, frivolous lawsuit, it would be the thinly veiled campaign document that Gov. Bobby Jindal filed in federal court on Wednesday, alleging that...
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Too bad Bobby Jindal didn’t try to close Highland Coffees
By Robert Mann Remember the widespread outrage on the LSU campus several years ago when Gov. Bobby Jindal and state legislators were slashing state funding to the school? Recall the raucous protests...
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Louisiana is walling off schoolchildren from each other
By Robert Mann "Something there is that doesn't love a wall, that wants it down," Robert Frost wrote in his poem "Mending Wall." Indeed, we humans struggle against our urge to erect walls, even as we...
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Want to save Louisiana schools? Then let’s do something about poverty
By Robert Mann If there is anything that threatens Louisiana’s future more than the pitiful state of its education system, it’s our unwillingness to talk honestly about what ails our schools and their...
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