Indiana at 200 (47): The State Fair
by Andrea Neal Not much has changed since the first Indiana State Fair in October 1852. Farmers showed off their finest specimens of cows, hogs, horses and chickens. A “Mechanics Hall” displayed the newest reapers and plows. Corn growers competed for a silver cup for the heartiest ears. And right outside the main entrance, a Read the full article…
Op-Ed: Ferguson by the Numbers
by John Tatom, Ph.D. Two separate reports dated March 4, 2015, by the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) on the Michael Brown killing and on the Ferguson, Mo., police and courts set new, but mixed, benchmarks for what happened. While the DOJ could find no reason to question Officer Darren Wilson’s account of the shooting of Read the full article…
The Outstater: J-Schools Have Reason to Be Embarrassed
by Craig Ladwig All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.” — Robert Montgomery Knight An officer of our foundation spoke at a local university recently on the topic of journalism. Afterward, talking with students, he was surprised that, although they hoped to work in Read the full article…
Half Past the Month: A GOP Moratorium on Enterprise
“‘Bipartisan’ usually means that a larger-than-usual deception is being carried out.” — George Carlin PASSAGE IN THE INDIANA HOUSE of a moratorium on enterprise, in this case nursing-home construction, is cause to wonder why the Super Majority is such a big deal. Democrats could have done that by themselves and saved GOP donors tens of Read the full article…
Schansberg: NCLB and Common Core to the Rescue?
by Eric Schansberg, Ph.D. The most recent issue of The Indiana Policy Review, Dr. Maryann O. Keating describes the priorities of the key “stakeholders” in K-12 education: a) parents and children; b) the general public, including future employers; and c) providers of educational services, including school teachers and staff (public, private or for-profit), testing services Read the full article…
Backgrounder: Is Federal Education Aid Worth It?
by Craig Ladwig Could Indiana live without 12 percent of its education budget, the $1.2 billion coming from Washington each year? The answer is yes if you trust cost-benefit analysis. An expert in that field, Dr. Maryann O. Keating, writing in the current issue of the quarterly Indiana Policy Review, raises an even more troubling Read the full article…
