The education system that John Stossel dubs “the Blob” illustrates the problems with relying on government to provide services and conduct business.
The father of Governor Chafee’s preferred “three Ts” strategy for economic development is beginning to see the limitations and damages of it. A strategy of freedom first would better serve the people of Rhode Island.
An article not about what it’s about; sequester demagoguery; softening kids for “effort shock”; and the rise of grassroots fascism.
Economic freedom as the best approach to economic development; what Rhode Island chooses to penalize; the root cause of education decline.
Taxing sweet drinks; collectively bargained legislation; equal pay for unequal merit; Projo promotes the economy; civil rights from heroism to handouts.
Legislation to prevent the use of standardized testing for high school diplomas and legislation to prevent electrical maintenance workers from plying their trade freely give a sense of RI’s governance problems.
Two narratives on the economy; a health exchange story the media is missing; government as pretend leader; powerful teachers’ unions (plus Ted Nesi’s Rolodex)
Critical thinking sexism in Providence schools; a masculine career in disability; indoctrination; gambling on the law; an earnest pun.
National results and local controversies point to the problems that have eroded Americans’ sense and taste for self governance.
Healthcare and what you get for free; making a living trying to fix the dying (state); the dictator prescription; and unhealthily sexist (female) teachers.
What’s up with the Providence charter push; why RI schools lack warmth; how pervasive is progressive destruction; and how an island is like policy knowledge.
Campaign finance serving incumbents; too common common political wisdom, locally; not hating the opposition; fearing the “common core.”
Mainstream reporters chat; the unknown cost of economic development; improving higher education by dumbing it down; a lawless society.
Mainly on government’s bad incentives: bad housing spending in Providence, unlearnable spending lessons for the governor, stimulus corruption, and Medicaid reform.
Another round is looming in the dispute between members of the RI General Assembly and the attorney general over in-state tuition for illegal immigrants.
West Warwick for all; the essence of education reform; declines in people births; declines in business births; the easy street to dependency.
The RI Center for Freedom & Prosperity’s General Assembly Freedom Index shifts the good-government-advocate spotlight, with some results that run across the grain of public perception.
Believing the political worst of priests; spinning bad SAT results; the skill of being trainable; the strange market valuation in Unionland.
Many faces of big government: standardized tests; interest group buy-offs; government as marketing practice; and the United States of Panem.
Chafee shows his bond cards, Chicago exposes a metric discord, Rhode Island misses the skills-gap/business-cost lesson, QE3 misses the inflation nebula, and college majors miss the mark.
RI Center for Freedom & Prosperity CEO Mike Stenhouse notes the successes and failures of “Make It Happen RI,” with concern that the latter will prove to dominate.
Being right about district 1 messaging; PolitiFact prepares for the election; what’s a charter; being right about quantitative easing, First Amendment; and Bob Dylan says what he means.
Madness overseas and at home, lunacy in the Fed, the disconcerting growth of government, and the performance art of public-sector negotiations.
No deep theme, today, but bad British commentary, union priorities, stimulus as wishlist, the fame of Dinesh, and a response to Dan Yorke’s Congressional District 1 analysis.
Chicago teacher strike exposes communities’ strategies for working around government.
The topics of hope and hopelessness pervaded this weekend’s readings, from absurd labor rules in schools, to the likely outcome of Make It Happen, to Spencer Dickinson’s insider view, and then to Sandra Fluke.
The Chariho school district is the latest to test boundaries in search of budgetary relief from the teachers’ union machine.
The North Kingstown janitor controversy provides the latest evidence that taxpayers pay a substantial premium for the workers on their payroll, compared with the private sector.
A closer look at the RI Dept. of Education’s ranking of elementary schools suggests that parents and the public at large should consider their schools’ results with care.
A New York Times op-ed gets a little too close to the edge of politicizing math education, for Justin.