Monthly Archives: November 2011

Dayton PBS stations repeatedly show 60 second ads praising local efforts in STEM education. I get a kick out of the fervency projected by the teachers on these videos. Why is “Science, Technology, Engineering and Math” education so crucial? One … Continue reading →

The push of Ohio House Bill 136 to transfer public tax money from public schools to private religious schools is sufficiently outrageous that it may well incite closer public scrutiny of how tax money, in general, is used to support … Continue reading →

Thomas Friedman’s recent NYT column about public education, “How About Better Parents,” cites the conclusions of recent studies that the quality of parental involvement is a key factor in a child’s academic success. Hardly big news, Friedman’s said in his … Continue reading →

Max Holland, expert historian of the JFK assassination, in 1994 published a scholarly work, “Making Sense of the Assassination,” that makes the case that Lee Harvey Oswald’s motivation to murder John Kennedy was revenge,  a direct response to the Kennedy … Continue reading →

David Gergen says the failure of the super committee to make a deficit reduction plan, “represents a reckless, irresponsible gamble…. It’s difficult to remember a Congress that has put the nation so much at risk in the service of ideology … Continue reading →

Eric, responding to, “DDN School Voucher Article Fails To Point Out HB136 Will Use Coercive Taxation To Fund Religious Education,” writes, “Government should rise to the challenge of providing schools worthy of parental support.” But, should public education be all … Continue reading →