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 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 […]
With mounting concerns about school safety, screen addiction and screentime and known health and brain effects, increase in internet crimes, along with hyper focused national attention on data misuse, […]
This weekend leading up to Martin Luther King Jr. Day, was one where our societal norms skipped right by the old ‘slippery slope’, and made a dash for the downward escalator of moral decay, where the earlier shock value over ‘punch a nazi!’, was left b…
Some people, especially NeverTrumpr’s, are wondering why people haven’t been especially welcoming to Mitt Romney’s ‘op-ed’ attacking Trump’s character flaws. Personally, I’m more surprised about how those NeverTrump’rs who identify as being ‘conserva…
Trump’s bump-stock ban is, to the extent that I know the details of it (still minimal), IMHO, unacceptable. Bad news. Unsupportable. A dangerous wedge. However, it’s hardly an indication of Trump’s hostility to what the 2nd Amdt defends and preserves, …
227 years ago today, December 15th, 1791, our states were united in ratifying the first ten amendments to the Constitution of the United States of America! Strange, that these same individual rights which we once understood to be so essential to l…