Posts by Vicki Alger
Vicki E, Alger is a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute and Senior Fellow and Director of the Women for School Choice Project at the Independent Women’s Forum. She is the author of the Independent book, Failure: The Federal Misedukation of America’s Children.
Full Biography and Recent Publications
Prize-winning Mathematician Says Common Core Math Doesn’t Add Up
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
California Lawmakers Mandate Students Study about Obama
Monday, August 18, 2014
Gov. Brown Invokes Religion to Open the Border, but Path to Faith-based Schools Remains Closed
Thursday, July 31, 2014
Ban Government—Not Sweets—in Schools to Combat Bureaucratic Obesity
Monday, July 28, 2014
Are Lawsuits Ending or Mending Teacher Tenure?
Monday, July 28, 2014
More States Abandoning the Sinking Common Core Ship
Monday, July 28, 2014
Common Core: Raising the Bar-barians
Monday, May 26, 2014
Stagnation Nation? High School Seniors’ Results on Nation’s Report Card Didn’t Budge
Monday, May 26, 2014
This Memorial Day Honor Vets with Education Savings Accounts
Monday, May 26, 2014
Los Angeles County Board of Education Blocks LAUSD “Blackmail” of Charter Schools
Monday, April 21, 2014
Common Core Makes Simple Math as Complicated as the Tax Code
Monday, April 21, 2014
Universal Government Preschool: Nilla Wafer Wishes and Juice Box Dreams
Thursday, March 27, 2014
Lessons from a German Homeschooling Family about the Nanny State
Thursday, March 27, 2014
State of the Union 2014: More Preschool Politics?
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Conscripting Four-Year Olds: California’s Latest Preschool Plan
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Retiring Teacher Seniority in California?
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Immigrants and Poor Kids Aren’t to Blame for Poor PISA Performance
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Rationing Schooling Freedom in Collectivist Oakland
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
PISA Results Show We’re a World Leader . . . in Spending, Not Performance
Thursday, December 12, 2013
Twelfth Grader Schools School Board over Common Core National Standards
Friday, November 15, 2013
More on Common Core: It’s about Snooping, Not Standards
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Shocker: Common Core Is about Politics, Not Academic Standards
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Schooling for Profit: Doing Good for Students while Creating Wealth for Staff
Saturday, November 2, 2013
Scary Movie Medicare Edition: We Pay Dead People
Friday, November 1, 2013
T-shirts and Free Speech: The Newest NSA Threats
Friday, November 1, 2013
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