We Can All Take a Breath Now
Opposition to open enrollment in Kansas was strong a few years ago. Superintendents from “good” districts lamented that throngs of...
Now Is Not the Time to Tinker
Last week the Missouri Senate passed Senate Bill (SB) 727—a comprehensive education bill—that, among other things, tinkers with the state...
Who Will Be Getting Charged for New EV Chargers in STL?
https://showmeinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/396955_Electric_Vehicle_Charging_Car_Energy_By_Erwin_de_Boer_Artlist_HD.mp4 Last week, I submitted testimony on House Bill (HB) 1511, which would protect St. Louis–area business owners from being...
St. Louis’s New Classical School and the Need for School Choice
I recently finished reading Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton. The book is Chesterton’s autobiographical account of arriving at belief in the...
In Denial: Municipal Checkbook Hall of Shame
My last post talked about one of my favorite emails I received during the municipal checkbook project, from the tiny...
So Meta: New KC Data Center Heavy on Tax Incentives, Light on Jobs
Three years ago, I wrote in The Federalist about Amazon’s decision not to establish a New York City headquarters in...
What Should We Do About Facebook?
Robby Soave joined The Mark Reardon Show on 97.1 FM Talk (KFTK-St. Louis) to discuss his new book, Tech Panic,...
Did Missouri Schools Grade Coursework during the COVID-19 Shutdown?
When it was clear last spring that schools would not be reopening for the remainder of the school year, schools...
Missouri Barely Managed Distance Learning. Here’s Why
Technology perpetually changes the way education is delivered. COVID-19 has accelerated a lot of these changes, with schools scrambling to...
