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July 15, 2023
Yonkers’ Only Charter School Illustrates Just How Broken the System Is
…about $26,800 per student, CSEE spends only $16,800. Still, when it came time to add a high school, the New York State Board of Regents told the administration that they…
July 8, 2023
Why the End of Affirmative Action Is Good for Black Science Students
…that overall UC graduation rates improved among black and Hispanic kids. (Perhaps that’s why a much-discussed New York Times story from this past weekend looking at the use of “adversity scores”…
July 3, 2023
Child Welfare’s Ideological Enforcer
…on social media, where he spends his time attacking rigorous academic research, encouraging social media mobs to insult others in the field, and even demanding that journals stop publishing work…
June 20, 2023
Down Through the Ages
…happiness between higher-income and lower-income white Americans in the 1970s, but by the 2010s, “five times as many whites in the lowest fifth for income were unhappy compared to those…
June 2, 2023
America’s Failing Child-Protection System
…Stoner, to live with them. He beats Demon, locks him in his room for days at a time, and makes him scrub the floors with bleach until he practically passes…
May 31, 2023
Children Are Dead Because Activists Say It’s Racist for ACS to Act
…the result of an agency that is stretched too thin. According to the New York Times, that neighborhood’s “caseworkers have an average load of 12.5 cases, ACS said — about…
May 30, 2023
Parenting While High
…We are not addressing this problem. To begin with, states have faced growing pressure to stop testing mothers and infants for drugs at the time of birth. Even when drug testing does…
May 27, 2023
How Newborns Are Becoming Victims of Legalized Marijuana Use
…this mother’s problems after all. As more states legalize drug use, child welfare agencies are having a harder time detecting when such usage puts children in harm’s way — and…
April 4, 2023
Why Foster Children Are Sleeping in Offices and What We Can Do About It
…of court 12 separate times in 2022 for failing to provide an appropriate placement for foster children—the last finding centering on a 15-year-old girl who was held in a mental hospital for…