by Jack Jennings | Feb 10, 2017 | academic standards, advocating, charter schools, children with disabilities, federal education policy, private schools / vouchers, Race to the Top, school choice, school reform, teachers
On February 9, 2017, Jack Jennings was interviewed on recent developments in education policy on the Facebook program, Video from the Washington Post. Why the Education Department exists We’re talking with education advocate Jack Jennings about the creation of the...
by Jack Jennings | Feb 1, 2017 | advocating, charter schools, federal education policy, federal funding, No Child Left Behind, private schools / vouchers, Race to the Top, school choice, school reform
During the campaign, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump promised to respect state and local control of public education. With his nomination of Betsy DeVos for U.S. secretary of education, President-elect Trump has tossed that promise aside, saying that she will...
by Jack Jennings | Jan 19, 2017 | charter schools, federal education policy, private schools / vouchers, school reform
The United States has not scored victories in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Could the missing element in those fights be the lack of competition which would have motivated an American military force to succeed? Is it time to create “charter armies”, “charter air...
by Jack Jennings | Nov 22, 2016 | private schools / vouchers, school reform, teachers
The 2016 elections are now behind us, but what remains is a divided country. Some people are very happy feeling that their voices finally were heard. Others are depressed believing that prejudice and divisiveness won. These strongly held opinions will not fade soon....
by Jack Jennings | Nov 7, 2016 | advocating
A longtime federal education authority concocts a three-part cure for addressing a common school leader’s phobia Psychologists label them phobias. They are a fear of something such as heights, closed spaces or ever-smiling elected officials. Science and medicine...
by Jack Jennings | Oct 13, 2016 | accountability, federal education policy, school reform, teacher evaluations, testing
During this election year, Hillary Clinton has offered few ideas to improve elementary and secondary schools. Donald Trump proposed an unrealistic plan to shift federal funds from educating children from low-income families and children with disabilities to instead...
by Jack Jennings | Aug 29, 2016 | college degrees, costs of college, professors, student debt, student loans
What can be done to make college more affordable? How can students avoid having to take out so many loans? In answering these questions, colleges and universities may have to become more frugal by having senior faculty teach freshmen and sophomore courses and by...
by Jack Jennings | Aug 9, 2016 | college degrees, job-related education, vocational education
A homegrown, rapidly expanding American invention is a cost-effective tool for increasing post-secondary educational attainment and gainful employment. It is the quickest education and job training award offered by American higher education, and has the capacity to...
by Jack Jennings | Jul 23, 2016 | federal education policy, federal funding, No Child Left Behind, teachers
Should schools with student bodies primarily from low-income families spend less on the education of those children than is spent on the education of other students in the same school district? Of course not! That practice violates common sense norms of justice and...
by Jack Jennings | Jun 16, 2016 | accountability, federal education policy, federal funding, No Child Left Behind, teacher evaluations, teacher performance, teachers, testing
Fifty Years of Federal Aid to Schools: Back into the Future? Jack Jennings* Excerpts from an article appearing in Volume 3 Education Law & Policy Review 2016 In 1965, the federal government began to provide major financial aid for education to states and local...
