There’s another new Missouri education blog out there, this one courtesy of the Columbia Missourian. In its first few posts, […]
The Kansas City Star has an article on the age-old question of what to do with leftover budget money. I […]
Most journalists aren’t number people. If they were, they’d be much less likely to wind up in a profession dominated […]
Michael Cannon, director of health policy studies at the Cato Institute, spoke this month before the Missouri House of Representatives’ […]
The Kansas City area is addressing the way it handles waste, just as St. Louis County has been doing. Here […]
The National Motorists Association has compiled a state-by-state list of the “Worst Speed Trap Cities” in the country. For Missouri, […]
This holiday weekend, let’s be thankful … that we don’t have too many national holidays. We all take a few […]
From this article in the Post-Dispatch, it’s not clear whether students are being pulled away from school or pushed out […]
My birth cohort, unfortunately also known as the "hand-it-to-me-on-a-silver-platter" generation, is getting involved in politics: The goal is not to […]
There’s some discussion over at NCLBlog about research by Show-Me Institute scholar Mike Podgursky that was published in Education Next. […]
Well, we have a new winner in the "Most obvious reference for a blog post title, ever" contest. Even if […]
There was an interesting (and unusually bipartisan) op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal the other day, touting an extremely […]
Faithful readers of this blog might be under the impression that St. Louis is always missing the boat on education […]
On Sunday, the Columbia Daily Tribune juxtaposed two columns on school choice: one by David Webber (which Sarah Brodsky already […]
Dave is right, crime is a fact. But how it’s measured is a statistic. If an incident involves a burglary, […]
"A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic." — Joseph Stalin, aka Koba the Dread "No, […]
On Nov. 6, voters in Utah decided to stay the course with the state’s underachieving educational status quo, voting down […]
David Webber, a professor at the University of Missouri, makes some good points in an op-ed about school choice in […]
Not to beat a dead horse here, but I disagree with Dave’s impression of the crime statistics in St. Louis. […]
My colleague Justin seems to be attempting, in his prior post, to refute hard numbers with personal experiences, which is […]
