A classic Tea Party vs. RINO battle is taking place in a safely Republican state representative district in southwest St. Louis County (mostly Eureka and parts of Pacific and Wildwood). It’s a battle for the soul of the Republican Party that demands your attention, even if, like me, you don’t live anywhere near the district. […]
I’m re-posting the post below from a few years ago, in part because in the time since the ‘Transgender Bathrooms’ issue first grabbed ahold of a news-cycle, the weeds which have sprouted from its source have spread and infested the daily news to the po…
The online journal Aeon posted (6 October, 2016) “The Examined Life,” by John Taylor, director of Learning, Teaching and Innovation at Cranleigh boarding school in Surrey (U.K.). https://aeon.co/essays/can-school-today-teach-anything-more-t…
American war dead, Flanders Field, BelgiumFrom eight years ago…Memorial Day… it is enough to remember today those who have fallen in defence of our nation. But it’s not all we can do, for them or for us, and to leave it there, I think, deprives the…
The Kansas City Star has done a good job of smearing Missouri activist Ron Calzone over his opposition to a proposed bill ‘that would add protections for LGBTQ Missourians’. But whatever you might think of Ron or his reasoning on this, what you really …
Last year, in response to one of their blog posts, I submitted a comment ( https://www.showmeinstitute.org/blog/accountability/if-we%E2%80%99re-going-administer-standardized-tests-let%E2%80%99s-make-them-useful ) to the think tank/advocacy group, …
I shared a post last week that I found hopeful, concerning a small but successful program at a sizable Ivy League University that’s pursuing ‘Wisdom First, Job Skills Second’ (which is both surprising and new for today), through studying key works in t…
Some years ago, during the heat of a presidential campaign I assembled some policy-relevant and time-sensitive research on the top education policy topic of the day. I could have published […]
College: The road not chosenMuch is being said about the rich and famous buying their kids way into college. It is shocking. Sad. But what seems more shocking to me, is what these parents and students were clearly not seeking from the colleges they sou…
With the passage of the OPEN Government Data Act in January 2019, data interoperability of federal governmental agencies to/from each other can occur. This was seen as good bipartisan legislation […]
A friend of mine brought an article to my attention, with the catchy title of “Roberts And Kavanaugh’s Death Penalty Betrayal Again Shows Why Conservatives Never Win The Long Game On Judges”. Attention getting, eh? With a title like that, of death, bet…
A friend of mine brought an article to my attention, with the catchy title of “Roberts And Kavanaugh’s Death Penalty Betrayal Again Shows Why Conservatives Never Win The Long Game On Judges”. Attention getting, eh? With a title like that, of death, bet…
Dear Readers, We have referenced the work of Richard Phelps of the Non-Partisan Education Review in the past (see here and here). His work is critical to our discussion because […]
Home visits by the government are apparently the new thing across state legislatures in the U.S.. See below for a list of bills and why these could pose a risk […]
Home visits by the government are apparently the new thing across state legislatures in the U.S.. See below for a list of bills and why these could pose a risk […]
The old adage “If it walks like a duck…” comes to mind when you look at what the Springfield Public School Board is deciding to adopt for their “new’ math […]