It turns out lifestyle is important to millennials at the cost of not paying down student debt or saving for retirement. In a recent survey by Providence, RI based Citizens Bank, as reported by Reuters and picked up by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Fewer than half (47 percent) of millennials, those in the 18-35 age […]
No More Business as Usual
Originally posted March 15, 2016. Are there two candidates further apart in this presidential election year than Donald Trump, a billionaire businessman running for the Republican nomination, and Bernie Sanders, a democratic-socialist seeking the Democratic nomination? What is the appeal of Trump and Sanders to voters who believe that Washington’s economic framework is rotten? NPR […]
Hillary—Now Against Charter Schools
Originally posted November 13, 2015. “Most charter schools,” Mrs. Clinton said, “they don’t take the hardest-to-teach kids, or, if they do, they don’t keep them.” But as the NY Post writes, her claim is “utterly false — and right out of the union playbook.” Charters choose students by lottery. And the city Independent Budget Office […]
Happy Martin Luther King Day…
Paying Lip Service to Martin Luther King’s Dream Congress is getting ready to gear up for another battle that will pit the political clout of public-school teachers against the future of America’s children. “Why do so many Democrats seem to favor the teachers’ unions over poor minority students?” questions Michael Tanner, senior fellow at the […]
Mitch Daniels—an Adult on Campus
Following in the footsteps of students at Missouri and Yale, students at Vanderbilt are now petitioning for the suspension of Professor of Law and Political Science Carol Swain for being “hateful” toward minorities. According to Peter Kirsanow in National Review, Carol Swain, who is black, made “politically incorrect statements about radical Islam and her traditional Christian […]
The Tragedy of NYC Schools
Why does NYC Mayor Bill de Biasio want to protect the entrenched interests of an education system in which only 19% of black students in district schools are working on grade level? Nicholas Simmons, a vice president in the Success Charter School network, writes in the WSJ that he worked in the same building as […]
The Progressive Narrative: Failure Factories
“Failure factories” are rotten schools in NYC where two-thirds of students are failing and 90% of students are children of color. “A half million children, almost all of color, are being forced into failing schools with no escape,” says director for Families for Excellent Schools, Jeremiah Kittredge. William McGurn, writing in the WSJ: Welcome to […]
Chalk One Up for American History
The College Board has just rewritten the 2015 teaching guidelines for American history for high-school students. And as Daniel Henninger writes in the WSJ, they “are about as balanced as one could hope for. The framework itself, on the College Board website inside the AP tab, is worth a look.” What happened? In a word—federalism. […]
MONEY’s Best Colleges
You never think you’re old. I can’t believe it was 25-years ago this Summer that I graduated high school from Tabor Academy in Marion, MA and was getting ready to head to Babson College in the Fall. And you don’t often hear the word value and college in the same sentence. But that’s exactly what MONEY’s Best Colleges list […]