How different would it be for Freddie Gray today if he had had a stable family? Buried in the stories about his death and criminal record, we learn: “Court papers describe Gray’s childhood as problematic. He lived with his heroin-addicted disabled mother in a home in Sandtown-Winchester that contained enough poisonous lead in the peeling painted walls and
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I confess to feeling a little surge of excitement this week in watching the trailer for the new Star Wars film. I thought the Narnia movies were pretty good, I greatly enjoy Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, and I do not complain too much when my sons drag me off to yet another superhero movie. I am
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While reading through the Friedman Foundation’s recent poll on Minnesota K-12 education and school choice, questions 8 and 9 caught my attention. These questions asked respondents to state their preferred school type, and then asked the reason why they would choose that form of schooling. As the above chart shows, many parents would choose a private school
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The idea of “privilege” has been a growing fad on college campuses over the past decade. While discussions of “white privilege,” “male privilege,” “heterosexual privilege,” and “able-bodied privilege” were once relegated to a few liberal arts classrooms, these discussions have seeped into the mainstream of campus life. Just this week, Campus Reform reported on a “Christian Privilege”
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My attention was recently drawn to a ranking of the best private schools in Minnesota. Taking a variety of factors into consideration – such as student-teacher ratio, matriculation rate, and SAT/ACT scores – the ranking listed Blake, St. Paul Academy, Breck, Mounds Park Academy, and Trinity School at River Ridge as the best private schools in the state.
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It’s no secret that U.S. students are not up to par with their international peers. The most recent PISA exam testified to this with the United States placing 17th in reading, 26th in math, and 21st in science. Unfortunately, these troubling scores seem to be following American students into adulthood. As a new study from the Educational Testing Service reports, U.S. adults age 16-65 score
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