April 28, 2025 • Blog
Expanding student choices is one of the best things a state can do
Georgia’s Promise Scholarship just completed its initial application window, and interest was strong.
Topic: Academic achievement
February 13, 2025 • Commentary
A roadmap for success in Georgia
Mississippi and Florida have proven that dramatic improvement is possible. Will Georgia follow that path?
January 16, 2025 • Commentary
The lost role of school board leadership
It's time for a candid discussion about what truly happens in monthly school board meetings supposedly guiding children's education.
January 3, 2024 • Commentary
What is the Georgia Department of Education trying to hide from parents?
The education establishment works harder to ensure parents – and taxpayers – don’t know the extent of the learning loss than do the work of remedying it.
July 5, 2023 • Commentary
What are we waiting for?
There is a dire need for actual solutions that benefit as many students as possible, and research has already identified one of those solutions.
June 28, 2023 • Commentary
Students lost decades of academic progress
For 3 years now, we’ve known the school closures ordered amid the pandemic were detrimental to students. New data confirms how bad it was.
May 24, 2023 • Commentary
Education is going to change
We need to stop thinking in terms of “schools” and instead think in terms of an education.
May 11, 2023 • Commentary
U.S. history tests show the falling floor for student achievement
The disappointing results raised concerns across the board about the amount and quality of civics and history instruction students are getting
March 26, 2023 • Commentary
Expanding parental accountability in education
Transparency provides parents with testing data from a school. Accountability provides parents with new choices.
November 14, 2022 • Commentary
Pandemic Learning Loss: What’s the Plan?
Public school students experienced a large degree of learning loss during the COVID-19 pandemic. How will we combat learning loss here in Georgia?
November 2, 2022 • Commentary
National Assessment Reveals Education Disparities in Georgia
Georgia is faring better than some other states, but student achievement still lags and gaps persists post-COVID.
October 25, 2022 • Blog
Student Test Score Assessments, Post COVID-19, Reveal Major Shortcoming for Georgia
"The Nation's Report Card" shows more evidence of COVID's devastating impact on Georgia students.
July 28, 2022 • Blog
Pandemic Learning Loss is Real. Now What?
If alarm bells aren’t ringing in your head by now, something is wrong.
May 20, 2022 • Commentary
This Year’s Georgia Milestones May Measure Learning Speed Bump
Should Georgia follow the emerging national pattern of learning loss caused by the pandemic, the results from these exams will paint an ugly picture.
February 11, 2022 • Educational Freedom Institute
A Better Route to Give Parents Successful School Choice
Do not look to national groups supposedly “model” charter school laws — look to DC and Arizona.
August 25, 2021 • Foundation News
Major Problems with Georgia Milestones
I’m talking about the Georgia Milestones exams given last spring, the state’s year-end standardized tests. Georgia students – or at least the ones who took the
October 14, 2020 • Blog
To the Georgia State Schools Superintendent, from a Georgia Public Schools Graduate
Last month, U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos made clear she wouldn’t waive federal testing requirements as you’d requested
December 17, 2015
Student Achievement and Spending
Where does Georgia really rank in student achievement and what does that tell us about spending? It’s difficult to compare state student achievement data because demographics vary greatly. In Georgia, for […]