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September 12, 2023
Time Is a School’s Most Precious Resource. Where Does It Go?
…time. Last year, the Merrimack College Teacher Survey reported that 29 percent of teachers said they wanted more planning time, 28 percent wanted more actual teaching time, and 17 percent more time…
September 1, 2023
Paying People to Have Kids Can Only Do So Much When You’re in a Spiraling Baby Bust
“Frankly, whenever elections come up politicians tend to unveil grand measures aimed at resolving the birthrate issue,” Choi Seul-ki, a demographer in South Korea, told the Wall Street Journal. “But cash is a…
August 31, 2023
Where Are The Energy Stamps, Joe?
…the reductions we have to make (to get to near zero emissions) by 2050 or 2045 are going to come from technologies we don’t yet have.” Except this time the…
August 28, 2023
Here’s a Kind of Job-Training Program That Works
…have the hardest time finding and advancing in work. Finally, there’s a role for the federal government in expanding programs and seeding new ones. An interesting model can be found…
August 28, 2023
Where Does School Time Go?
…Three decades ago, the National Education Commission on Time and Learning observed, “Learning in America is a prisoner of time. For the past 150 years, American public schools have held time…
August 24, 2023
Want To End Apartment Warehousing? Ease Up On Rent-Control Laws
…on owners of the nearly 1 million rent-regulated apartments in dramatically new ways. Most important, for the first time, it limited rent increases that could be justified by “major capital…
August 24, 2023
Baby Boom Or Bust
…Stephanie, three Latter-day Saint home-schooling moms. The women have in the past pursued careers or owned businesses, and now they describe their full-time occupation as helping their children become well-rounded,…
August 24, 2023
The Hill that Public Education Dies on: Transgender Policies’ Utter Contempt for Parents
…time. In the case of public education, it’s a two-way street. A December 2021 poll conducted for EdChoice showed that only about a third of teachers (36 percent) say they trust parents,…
August 23, 2023
Solve Two Crises At Once: Put Migrants In NYCHA
…the Lower East Side has a better way. The New York Times reports that Camille Napoleon “has hosted as many as 12 migrants at a time in her two-bedroom apartment, on couches…
August 21, 2023
Four Shocking Truths about the American Economy! (Well, Shocking to Some.)
…to be contrarian just for the sake of being contrarian, I take a starkly different view on all of those issues. Time for some myth busting, Faster, Please! style! “The link between…