Rough Day 2? Try These Resources for Student Downtime

03/17/2020

Within hours of the announcement closing Louisiana schools for the next month, parents, teachers, nonprofits, and companies had already begun mobilizing to share resources, links, curricula, virtual museum tours, and so much more. As uncertainty swirls around the spread of COVID-19, the community’s strong response to fill these education gaps is providing parents with a...

TAGS: Education, Education Reform, Online schools, school, School choice, virtual schools

Guest Commentary: The Promise of Course Choice

By Margaret Viator

05/19/2013

Leaders need to promote creative options for low-income, minority students whose educational needs are not being met adequately by their schools.

TAGS: Course Choice, Education Reform, Louisiana, online learning, Online schools, virtual schools

Don’t Forget Course Choice

By Ben Kilpatrick

01/24/2013

Act 2 moved Louisiana forward from an anachronistic model of education into a student-centric one that allows each child to master her learning before she moves on to another concept. It is an important model for the nation that puts the emphasis on learning outcomes and student success.

TAGS: Bobby Jindal, Course Choice, Education Reform, Innosight Institute, Louisiana, online learning, Online schools

Louisiana’s Foray Into Modular Education

By Editor

09/20/2012

It is no surprise that this policy comes out of Louisiana, a state that has led the way in school choice innovation. Most notably, Louisiana is home to the Recovery School District (RSD), which was created following Hurricane Katrina. The disaster was used as an opportunity to reinvent the traditional school district in New Orleans.

TAGS: Course Choice, Education, Education Reform, John White, Louisiana, Online Charter Schools, Online schools, RSD, virtual schools

Governors Bush And Wise Announce Blueprint For Digital Education Initiative

By Jamison Beuerman

10/25/2011

Online learning engages students in ways that classroom instruction sometimes fails to do, whether due to poor instruction or overburdened class sizes.

TAGS: Education Reform, Jeb Bush, Online schools

Louisiana Dropout Rate Falls 31 Percent

By Robert Ross

04/11/2011

Louisiana's high school dropout rate fell 31 percent from the 2008-09 school year to the 2009-10 year. However Louisiana's four year high school graduation rate ranks 47th in the nation, at only 67 percent.

TAGS: Clayton Christensen, Dale Bayard, Department of Education, Disrupting Class, Ken Bradford, Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, Louisiana Virtual School, Online schools

Antitrust & Enforcement: Letting Markets Work without Empowering Government

In their report “Antitrust & Enforcement: Letting Markets Work without Empowering Government,” Ted Bolema, Ph.D., J.D., Antitrust and Competition Fellow at the Innovators Network Foundation, and Vance Ginn, Ph.D., Chief Economist at the Pelican Institute, write that while the current frustrations with the size of large tech companies and censorship practices may be warranted, giving...

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