Maintenance Required: Charter Schooling in Michigan

Michigan's charter sector has tremendous potential, but achieving that potential requires significant improvements

The Truth About Boys and Girls

On many measures American boys are achieving more than ever, but girls have improved their performance even faster. A careful look at the evidence shows the boy crisis hype is overblown and benefits neither boys nor girls

Information Underload: Florida's Flawed Special-Ed Voucher Program

Despite its growing popularity, and the attention paid both by state and national education reformers, Florida's McKay voucher program has yet to prove that it works as either an adequate school-choice or special-education reform measure

Million Dollar Babies: Why Infants Can't be Hardwired for Success

Conventional wisdom that the ages from zero to three are the most important for children's development is based on misinterpretations and misapplications of brain research. The result: negative consequences for parents and public policy

A Sum Greater Than the Parts: What States Can Teach Each Other About Charter Schooling

States with a significant charter sector know firsthand that the success or failure of a charter school is not a matter of chance, but subject to variances in state laws and a state's educational, political, and regulatory climate. In this report, Sara Mead and Andrew J. Rotherham draw on the experiences of 12 states, proposing those lessons that are necessary for charter school quality and growth

Challenged Index: Why Newsweek's List of America's 100 Best High Schools Doesn't Make the Grade

Some schools on Newsweek's list of America's Top 100 high schools have large achievement gaps, grossly shortchange disadvantaged groups, and have a substantial number of drop-outs

Examining the Evidentiary Basis of Congress's Commerce Clause Power to Address Individuals' Health Insurance Status

Outlines the issues involved in whether the 2010 Affordable Care Act's individual mandate is constitutional under the commerce clause, presents research literature on the effect of uninsurance on the broader economy, and reviews the lower courts' rulings

Pre-K and Charter Schools: Where State Policies Create Barriers

High quality charter schools and pre-K programs have shown tremendous potential to change the educational and life trajectories of low-income students. In combination, they could do even more to improve the odds for our nation's most vulnerable youngsters. But current policy and practice in many states limit the ability of charter schools to offer state-funded pre-K programs.Even though most states use a variety of providers to offer pre-K -- including public schools, Head Start programs, community-based child care centers, and for-profit and faith-based preschools -- charter schools are often not among them.In this report, the National Alliance teamed up with the Thomas B. Fordham Institute to analyze state pre-K and charter statutes, regulations, and agency policies in the 36 jurisdictions that had both charter schools and state-funded pre-K programs at the start of the 2014 -- 15 school year. This comprehensive study points to state policies that create restrictions for collaboration between charter schools and pre-K, and also offers policy recommendations at the federal and state levels to improve the climate for high-quality charter schools to offer pre-K

Taboo and Transgression: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Migration, Integration, and Diversity

Diese Reihe versammelt Beiträge zur Vermittlung grundlagenorientierter Forschung im Feld der Integrationsstudien für die wissenschaftliche Fachöffentlichkeit.:MI-CHA FLUBACHER AND SARA HÄGI-MEAD Taboo and Transgression in the Context of Migration, Integration, and Diversity 5 KATJA KANZLER (Meta-)Disparagement Humour: The Poetics and Politics of Mockery in the Sitcom Two Broke Girls 15 PAUL MECHERIL AND MONICA VAN DER HAAGEN-WULFF Accredited Affects: Discourses and Taboos around Migration and Threat 25 SARA HÄGI-MEAD Taboos and Integration: Welcome to Germany 39 LAURA RIND-MENZEL Taboos and Transgressions as a Result of Insufficient Consideration of Didactic Principles in Orientation Course Materials 59 OLGA JUBANY AND ROSA LÁZARO CASTELLANOS Virtual Platforms, Real Racism: Online Hate Speech in Europe 81 AMANDA HAYNES AND JENNIFER SCHWEPPE Hate Crime: Violently Policing Transgressions of Perceived Parameters of Acceptability 97 Author Information 111This series presents contributions to basic research in the field of integration studies for the scientific community.:MI-CHA FLUBACHER AND SARA HÄGI-MEAD Taboo and Transgression in the Context of Migration, Integration, and Diversity 5 KATJA KANZLER (Meta-)Disparagement Humour: The Poetics and Politics of Mockery in the Sitcom Two Broke Girls 15 PAUL MECHERIL AND MONICA VAN DER HAAGEN-WULFF Accredited Affects: Discourses and Taboos around Migration and Threat 25 SARA HÄGI-MEAD Taboos and Integration: Welcome to Germany 39 LAURA RIND-MENZEL Taboos and Transgressions as a Result of Insufficient Consideration of Didactic Principles in Orientation Course Materials 59 OLGA JUBANY AND ROSA LÁZARO CASTELLANOS Virtual Platforms, Real Racism: Online Hate Speech in Europe 81 AMANDA HAYNES AND JENNIFER SCHWEPPE Hate Crime: Violently Policing Transgressions of Perceived Parameters of Acceptability 97 Author Information 11

Examining the evidentiary basis of Congress\u27s commerce clause power to address individuals\u27 health insurance status

Chief among the issues that the United States Supreme Court considers in United States Department of Health and Human Services et al. v Florida et al. is the questionof whether Congress has the constitutional power to apply a “minimum essential coverage requirement” on most nonelderly Americans. Opponents of the provision (referred to under the Act as the “Individual Responsibility” requirement) argue that compelling individuals to buy affordable health insurance coverage exceeds Congressional powers. By contrast, the United States Department of Justice and supporters of the law assert that the minimum coverage requirement is consistent with a long line of Supreme Court decisions regarding the power of Congress to regulate individual conduct. The Administration, in a brief filed on January 9, 2012, argues that Congressional authority to act can be found under both its taxing powers as well as its power under the Commerce Clause and Necessary and Proper Clause to regulate interstate commerce. The Commerce Clause arguments are of special interest, because it is this basis of power that has received so much attention in the lower court decisions to date