Author Archives: Don Soifer
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Third-Party Logistics: Keeping America’s Economy Moving
June 3, 2009- Don Soifer Presentation A Capitol Hill presentation by Don Soifer giving an industry overview and highlighting the benefits of Third-Party Logistics. Click here to view this presentation as PDF. [Read More...] -
SOLVING VIRGINIA’S CHARTER SCHOOL RIDDLE
May 29, 2009- Don Soifer Issue Brief Virginia’s Governor’s School Program is thriving, while its charter school movement is still struggling to get off the ground. The top Governor’s School, Fairfax County’s Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, is renowned not only throughout [Read More...] -
School Vouchers Give the Poor the Freedom of the Wealthy
May 22, 2009- Don Soifer Letter to the Editor USA Today To the Editor: Senator Dick Durbin’s Opposing View column (“Voucher Program Flops,” May 19) states that most parents wouldn’t give the results of Washington, DC’s Opportunity Scholarship program “a passing grade.” But they do: [Read More...] -
New Jersey’s Promising Public School Choice
May 13, 2009- Don Soifer Issue Brief New Jersey’s Interdistrict Public School Choice Program is a largely unknown reform model whose time may have come. The voluntary program began as a five-year pilot ten years ago, and is still going strong and producing positive results. [Read More...] -
Lexington Institute’s Don Soifer on Bilingual Education on “Destination Casa Blanca”
May 4, 2009- Don Soifer Lexington Institute’s Don Soifer debates the future of bilingual education with American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten and Aspira President Ron Blackburn-Moreno on the national cable television program “Destination Casa Blanca,” hosted by Ray Suarez. Segment 1 Segment 2 [Read More...] -
FEDERALIZING PRE-K COULD DO MORE HARM THAN GOOD
April 29, 2009- Don Soifer Issue Brief All signs point to the $787 billion federal economic-stimulus package signed into law on February 17 by President Obama becoming just the beginning of a major increase in governmental involvement in early childhood education, particularly of 3- and [Read More...] -
Virginia Graduation Rates Show Need for Improvement
April 14, 2009- Don Soifer Issue Brief Virginia’s Class of 2008 had an on-time graduation rate of 82.1 percent, and a dropout rate of 8.7 percent, according to new data from the Virginia Department of Education. The worse news is that the dropout rate for [Read More...] -
Linguistic Isolation Carries a Heavy Cost
April 10, 2009- Don Soifer Article NewAmericaMedia.org Nobody knows for certain what made Jiverly Wong walk into a citizenship class for immigrants in Binghamton, New York and open fire with two handguns, killing 13 people before taking his own life. But his sister noted that [Read More...] -
The Value of English Proficiency to the United States Economy
April 7, 2009- Don Soifer Research Study What is the cost to the United States economy attributable to a lack of basic English skills? There are currently over 11 million English learners living in the United States, including over 5 million currently attending elementary and [Read More...] -
The Value of English Proficiency to the United States Economy
April 7, 2009- Don Soifer Research Study What is the cost to the United States economy attributable to a lack of basic English skills? There are currently over 11 million English learners living in the United States, including over 5 million currently attending elementary and [Read More...]