In case you missed it last night, here you can watch David Levin, one of KIPP’s founders, talk about how […]
I think I have a new candidate for Missouri’s worst law: RSMo 94.270. What makes this law so awful is […]
Copenhagen is becoming unlucky for the United States. Last Friday, Chicago lost its bid for the the 2016 Olympics there; […]
Yesterday, John Combest linked to a KOMU article about minimum wage and its effects on the youth work force. As […]
Facebook recently introduced a Gross National Happiness Index, which measures the relative overall happiness of Facebook in the United States […]
For public schools to be innovative, it helps to have a competitive education market surrounding them. Then, schools are on […]
I really enjoyed this Associated Press article about the current recession in today’s Post-Dispatch. Not because I like the recession, […]
Caroline Hoxby has found that students who were randomly selected to attend charter schools earned better test scores than other […]
Recently I returned to The Story of Stuff Blog to see what had transpired since I last wrote about The […]
The Post-Dispatch reports: Attorney General Lisa Madigan filed papers with the 5th District Appellate Court in Mount Vernon announcing her office’s intention […]
The Wall Street Journal published an interview with John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods, on Saturday. Among other interesting topics, […]
We have had a little bit of irony recently here at the Show-Me Institute. Randal O’Toole came into town to […]
The Show-Me Institute was pleased to be able to host Jeff Benedict, author of Little Pink House: A True Story […]
This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon. With all the talk about polarizing politics and the fracturing […]
I participated in the USDA‘s live Facebook chat today with Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan. I appreciated the gracious tone of […]
There’s an interesting little story over in the Suburban Journals about an upcoming vote to abolish the office of city […]
Today’s Columbia Daily Tribune has a terrific editorial asking a lot of tough questions about the value of high-speed rail […]
The Post-Dispatch has a story about a college freshman from Ladue and the very small clothing line he came up […]
This article about a proposed Spanish-immersion charter school (linked to by the Panama City Renaissance School Blog) illustrates how outrageous […]
David Steelman, the former state rep., and his wife, Sarah, our former state treasurer, are both great friends and supporters […]
