Education

What the Founders Actually Thought About Slavery 0
- Education
- January 3, 2020
One of the ironies of the current American “elite” is that, rather than actually being elite, they have the smug self-assurance of knowing much that isn’t so. Recently, a video surfaced of South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, a Harvard University graduate and Rhodes scholar, explaining to a group of high school students why the
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Washington Post Concedes That Government Spending on Education Has Increased, Not Decreased 0
- Education
- December 18, 2019
“The biggest problem plaguing U.S. public schools [is] a lack of resources.” So claims Robert Pianta, dean of the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education, in an op-ed published last week in The Washington Post. In fact, Pianta asserts, government spending on K-12 education actually has declinedsince the 1980s. These claims are inaccurate, as federal government
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Five Ways Chess Makes You a Better Law Student and Lawyer 0
- Education
- December 18, 2019
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Why America’s Founders Didn’t Want a Democracy 0
- Education
- December 17, 2019
When I took history and government in school, many critical issues were misrepresented, given short shrift, or even ignored entirely. And those lacunae undermined my ability to adequately understand many things. Randall Holcombe’s new book, Liberty in Peril: Democracy and Power in American History, fills in some very substantial gaps, particularly with regard to American
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Students’ Test Scores Unchanged After Decades of Federal Intervention in Education 0
- Education
- December 11, 2019
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Rose Wilder Lane: Pioneer of Educational Freedom 0
- Education
- December 5, 2019
My eight-year-old daughter Abby recently started reading Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder. It was prompted, in part, by watching the Little House on the Prairie television episodes with her great-aunt. Coincidentally, I have been reading more lately about some of the key women in history who promoted the ideals of
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