by Lil Tuttle | Sep 4, 2014 | Education
Remember the almost 37,000 ‘unaccompanied’ illegal South American minors who crashed the US southern border this year and were placed with sponsors throughout the U.S.? “The Department of Education has made it clear that every child, regardless of...
by Lil Tuttle | Sep 4, 2014 | Education
Welcome to Common Core’s method of teaching addition, children. See if your parents can explain it. “This is the introduction to the first of six ‘Homework Helper’ segments Buffalo, NY, NBC affiliate WGRZ is broadcasting this week in honor of...
by cblpi_admn | Mar 24, 2012 | Education
The history of U.S. education is fascinating. Before the mid-1800s, elementary and secondary education was based entirely on parental choice. Between the 1800s and the 1970s, government controlled-education was in ascendancy until it eventually permitted almost no...
by cblpi_admn | Jul 30, 2011 | Education
Don’t take this the wrong way, but I hope to never see you in my office. For more than ten years I’ve been a physician at a campus counseling center, and hardly a day has gone by without my meeting a young woman like you. She’s working hard to...
by cblpi_admn | Oct 12, 2007 | Education, Policy Paper
By Dr. Elizabeth Kantor When we hear about the "culture war" we think of controversial political issues: abortion, homosexual marriage, sex education in the schools. But "culture" means more than hot-button political issues. In one sense, culture...
by cblpi_admn | Jan 7, 2006 | Education
No Guarantees: Rating the Cost Efficiency of Virginia School Districts, January 2008 Does cost-efficiency of state programs matter? Governor Tim Kaine argued that it does. When confronted with a state budget shortfall in excess of $641 million, the governor advised...
