Knowledge Is Power – But Only When You Have Choices
Apropos of my blog post about charter schools in New Orleans from last week, Katherine Mangu-Ward has an article in...
The Power of Choice
Newsweek ran a good article on “New Orleans’ Charter-School Revolution” yesterday, and it shows the possibilities of a very open...
Thanks, But No, Thanks, NCAA
Today’s KC Star is reporting on a hearing in Jefferson City in which sporting event promoters are attempting to get...
Fun With Guns
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments today in McDonald v. Chicago, otherwise known as the Chicago gun ban case. The...
School Lunches in New Orleans
The Kids Rethink New Orleans Schools website states: Our vision is simple: a great education for every kid in our...
Post-Katrina Education
Bob Compton at Two Million Minutes is blogging about education in New Orleans. Like Compton, I’m impressed by New Orleans’...
Charters Cause Chaos, Impending Doom
Spreading fear and anxiety is what charter schools do best — at least among traditional public school teachers and administrators....
Charter Schools Flourish; In Other News, Earth Continues to Revolve Around Sun
To some opponents of charter schools, a proliferation of charters in your city is almost as bad as a natural...
Make Way for Charters
St. Louis makes an ignominious appearance in an article by Andy Smarick in Education Next: Charter competition has caused one...
Realism is a Good Thing…
My love of trains has been discussed before. However, in a recently released study recommending against adding an Amtrak line...
Trains, market gains and monopolies…
Yesterday, my colleague, Sarah Brodsky, posted on the report on Missourinet about MoDOT’s desire to improve Amtrak’s performance in order...
NYT on Saint Louis
The New York Times publishes a not-entirely fair article about what a bad place St. Louis has become to live...
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