Privately Managed Schools in Philly Gain

• Nathan Benefield
• April 13, 2007

A new report by Paul Peterson at Harvard indicates that privately managed schools in Philadelphia had greater gains in PSSA scores than overall public schools and than “restructured” schools…

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Education

New York Times Editorial Uses Faulty Data To Slam Charter Schools

• May 10, 2006

News release from the Center for Education Reform… New York Times Editorial Uses Faulty Data To Slam Charter Schools Washington, D.C., May 10, 2006 – The New York Times in…

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Galbraith’s follies

• May 3, 2006

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review editorial on “one of the anointed liberals of the last century.” “The Canadian-born adviser to presidents and Harvard economist had a generous spirit, generous with money not…

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Taxes & Economy

Private Property & Liberty

• Matthew Brouillette
• November 22, 2005

Good afternoon. My name is Matt Brouillette, and I am president & CEO of the Commonwealth Foundation, a public policy research and educational institute based in Harrisburg. We develop and…

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Taxes & Economy

Protect Private Property from Eminent Domain Abuse

• Matthew Brouillette
• October 26, 2005

Thank you for the opportunity to address the issue of Eminent Domain. My name is Matt Brouillette, and I am president & CEO of the Commonwealth Foundation, a research and…

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Education

School Choice Works!

• March 17, 2005

A Quick Guide to the Scholarly Literature on School Choice During a recent round of visits with print journalists, I spoke to a newspaper editor who told me that she…

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Government Accountability

Reinventing Education in Pennsylvania: Fulfilling the Promise of Public Schooling

• December 31, 2003

For more than 250 years, Pennsylvanians have striven to bring academic excellence within reach of their children. In the mid 1700s, when Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and William & Mary colleges…

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