by Lewis M. Andrews. What is most remarkable about reports of escalating urban violence across America is that politicians and the media remain just as narrowly focused on police tactics in the aftermath of Ferguson and Baltimore. Even as 2015 murder rates for Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City (Missouri), New Orleans, St. Louis, Washington, DC, ... MORE
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School Choice Can Help Quell Urban Violence
by Lewis M. Andrews. What is most remarkable about reports of escalating urban violence across America is that politicians and the media remain just as narrowly focused on police tactics in the aftermath of Ferguson and Baltimore. Even as 2015 murder rates for Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City (Missouri), New Orleans, St. Louis, Washington, DC, ... MOREAhmed Mohamed's Ordeal IS The Case For School Choice
by Nick Gillespie. The story of Ahmed Mohamed, the Texas 9th-grader who was handcuffed and arrested after bringing a homemade clock to MacArthur High to show a teacher, is enraging. As Reason's Robby Soave has noted, xenophobia and zero-tolerance policies created a stew more toxic than anything ever served in a school cafeteria. In my new ... MOREWalter E Williams: Attack on Teachers
School violence is going to get worse. As the new school year begins, you might like to be updated on some school happenings that will no doubt be repeated this academic year. After this update, I have some questions one might ask the black leadership. The ongoing and escalating assault on primary- and secondary-school teachers is not a ... MOREWhitney Neal: Igniting A Passion For Liberty
Through classroom engagement. While initially penned on parchment paper, the Constitution transcends time and technology to remain one of the most influential and inspirational documents in the history of the world. Issues debated in Philadelphia by the Founders are still argued in the halls of Congress with a vigor and passion ... MOREWalter E Williams: Why Home Schooling?
Imparting values along with knowledge. Many public primary and secondary schools are dangerous places. The Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics and the Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics show that in 2012, there were about 749,200 violent assaults on students. In the 2011-12 academic ... MORECommon Core: Who's Watching the Kids?
by Mary Anne Marcella and Cort Wrotnowski. Common Core is about more than just a shift in educational standards. The architects of Common Core have always planned to integrate computer technology with Common Core standards under the guise of “closing the digital divide” and “preparing our children for the 21st-century workplace.” They ... MOREWalter E Williams: Historical Ignorance II - The Real Lincoln
We call the war of 1861 the Civil War. But is that right? A civil war
is a struggle between two or more entities trying to take over the
central government. Confederate President Jefferson Davis no more sought
to take over Washington, D.C., than George Washington sought to take
over London in 1776. Both wars, those of 1776 and 1861, ... MOREHow Student Loans Create Demand For Useless Degrees
by Josh Grossman. Last week, former Secretary of Education and US Senator Lamar Alexander wrote in the Wall Street Journal
that a college degree is both affordable and an excellent investment.
He repeated the usual talking point about how a college degree increases
lifetime earnings by a million dollars, “on average.” That part about
averages is ... MOREThomas Sowell: Looking Back
Discovering what is important. After my 85th birthday last week, I looked back over my life and was surprised to discover in how many different ways I had been lucky, in addition to some other ways in which I was unlucky. Among the things I did not know at the time was that I was adopted as an infant into a family with four adults, in which I was ... MORETeenagers Are Losing Confidence In The American Dream
by Joe Pinsker. As government grows, the private economy shrinks. In 1996, when asked a series of questions about the brightness of her future, one high-school senior in an unnamed Midwestern state said, “There’s been extraordinary examples of people that have been poor and stuff that have risen to the top just from their personal hard work … not ... MOREWalter E Williams: Improving Black Education
Use free market competition. Last summer's Ferguson, Missouri, disturbances revealed that while blacks were 67 percent of its population, only three members of its 53-officer police force were black. Some might conclude that such a statistic is evidence of hiring discrimination. That's a possibility, but we might ask what percentage of blacks met ... MOREJohn Stossel's Advice On College: Don't Go
It's graduation time! Have we learned much? No. College has become a scam. Some students benefit: those with full scholarships and/or rich parents so they don't go deep into debt, those who love learning for its own sake and land jobs in academia and those who get jobs that require a college credential. But that's not most students. Politicians such ... MORE
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