Authors
Matthew Ladner
Contributer
Matthew Ladner (Ph.D., University of Houston) is the senior advisor of policy and research for the Foundation for Excellence in Education. Dr. Ladner has testified before Congress, the United States Commission on Civil Rights, and numerous state legislative committees, and has authored many studies on school choice, charter schools, and special-education reform. He is the author of the 2010 report “Reforms with Results: What Oklahoma Can Learn from Florida’s K-12 Revolution,” which was published by the Foundation for Educational Choice, the Oklahoma Business and Education Coalition, and OCPA.
Recent Articles
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Education
Demographic Changes Coming to Oklahoma
Oklahoma has enacted some substantial K-12 reforms in recent years, including parental choice programs and A-F school letter grading. District interests, however, have pushed back fiercely in a variety of ways.Matthew Ladner | April 22, 2015
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Education
Demography Is Not Destiny
Educators sometimes imply that we shouldn’t expect too much from low-income and minority students. Florida proves them wrong. Thanks to abundant school choice and systemic education reform, Hispanic 4th graders in Florida now have higher reading scores than the statewide average of all students in Oklahoma.Matthew Ladner | November 7, 2008