The One Big Education Opportunity with Shaka Mitchell
Susan Pendergrass speaks with Shaka Mitchell, senior fellow at the American Federation for Children, about how a new federal scholarship...
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...
Teachers Should Do Their Homework on the CARES Act
A petition, signed by over 20,000 educators, has been circulating on Facebook and other social media websites. It claims that the...
Why is American Health Care So Expensive? Because You’ve Been Overcharged
Hot off the Cato Institute press, Overcharged: Why Americans Pay Too Much for Health Care tackles an anxiety-inducing question: Why...
Viral Facebook Post about Missouri Teacher Pension Bill Is Filled with Falsehoods
In recent days, some Missouri teachers have been spreading a viral Facebook post that makes a number of inaccurate assertions....
Why Is the KC Health Department Stopping Neighbors from Feeding the Homeless?
For the past several years, a group of friends and neighbors have gathered on Sunday afternoons in three public parks...
The Airport and Transparency
In the lead-up to the November vote on tearing down Kansas City International Airport’s terminals and building a new $1.2...
The Utopian Apocalypse: Silicon Valley Freaks Out over Automation
With Labor Day just around the corner, now is a good time to discuss (and, more than that, to take...
Teachers Are Great, and the Pay Isn’t Bad!
Today, I was greeted on Facebook with countless pictures of children smiling as they headed to their first day of...
Local Control in Education, Properly Understood
If you head West on I-70, past the inner-ring suburbs of St. Louis and over the Missouri river, you’ll happen...
Election of Convicted Felon to Wentzville School Board Should Sound Alarm
On Wednesday, voters in the Wentzville School District (of which I am one) found out they may have unknowingly elected...
School Choice and Bullying
‘If I went here, I would have enjoyed learning,’ said a prospective parent at the New City School in the...
