Update: Indiana Grade Inflation
by James E. McClure, Ph.D., and T. Norman Van Cott, Ph.D. In a 2011 article, “Too Many Rhinestones,” Professors T. Norman Van Cott and the late Clarence Deitsch examined Ball State University’s (BSU) grade-inflation problem. After comparing grade distributions and grade-point averages (GPAs) from fall 1990 and fall 2009 in principles-level courses, they found that Read the full article…
White Paper: Doubts About INDOT Disparity Study
The author is an attorney with a national practice specializing in disparity studies, called as an expert witness in challenges to racial preferences in public contracting. He wrote this for the foundation based on work being commissioned by a client group of contractors. Contact him at jcharlessullivan@yahoo.com. The foundation’s white papers are intended to make Read the full article…
Indiana at 200 (87): Jazz Along Indiana Avenue
by Andrea Neal In the segregated world of the 20th century, a street called Indiana Avenue came to symbolize the identity and aspirations of Indianapolis’s black citizens. “It was the heart and soul of the African-American community,” says David Leander Williams, author of “Indianapolis Jazz.” From the late 1800s, “the Avenue” offered a vibrant residential, Read the full article…
Op-Ed: Business Versus Schools, Sewers, Etc.
“The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies,” wrote the historian Robert Conquest. With most Indiana cities in economic doldrums, we are told that we can’t cut taxes on the job creators. It would endanger the sewer utility fund, they Read the full article…
Phyllis Schlafly
by Tom Huston The two most influential women on the American Right during the last half of the 20th century were Jeane Kirkpatrick, the Ambassador to the United Nations during Ronald Reagan’s first term, and Phyllis Schlafly, who never held any public office but who influenced public policy more significantly than most anyone who did. Read the full article…
Indiana at 200 (86): USS Indianapolis
by Andrea Neal The city of Indianapolis will be forever linked to one of the worst naval disasters in history: the sinking of the USS Indianapolis in World War II. This was the 10,000-ton cruiser that delivered secret components for the atomic bomb to be used against Japan, only to be sunk by Japanese torpedoes Read the full article…
