Why Townships Matter
For release noon Aug. 9 and thereafter (735 words) Even school children recognize and respond to the personalities of politics. Given a quick across-town drive, a young Hoosier on Memorial Day managed to shake hands with two mayors, one leading the South Bend “West Side Parade” at 8:15 a.m. and another on Main Street in Read the full article…
Let’s Embrace (Not Fear) On-Line Learning
For release noon Aug. 3 and thereafter (677 words) As a classroom teacher, I’m not crazy about on-line schools. I like to think that I can challenge, question, excite and ignite students in a way no Internet program ever could. I’m also a realist. If Indiana wants to improve high school and college graduation rates, Read the full article…
Photo Economics: The Power of Property
For release noon July 27 and thereafter (735 words) I suggested in an earlier article that aerial photography of the border between barren Haiti and the heavily forested Dominican Republic was a predictor of the recent Haitian earthquake devastation. Not the earthquake, mind you, but the devastation that followed. The property-rights vacuum that encouraged Haitians Read the full article…
Subsidized Journalism? Not Funny
For immediate release (708 words) “If the press is stopped and the people kept in ignorance, we had much better have the first magistrate and senators hereditary.” — John Adams A delegation from Izvestia sat in our conference room one afternoon in the late 1970s as the long-running regime of Leonid Brezhnev came to a Read the full article…
Principals’ Academy Pushes for Radical Change
For release Tuesday noon July 20 and thereafter (670 words) Lindan Hill, director of Marian University’s leadership academy that will train Indiana principals to transform bad schools, has ideas that may strike fear in the hearts of the education establishment: The fastest way to improve education is to get “powerful teaching” into the classroom. Effective Read the full article…
Soccer Hype Hid Flaws of New South Africa
For release Tuesday noon July 13 and thereafter (539 words) Viewers of the World Cup finals last weekend were treated to the pageantry of the “beautiful game” but little of the reality of post-Apartheid South Africa. That is unfortunate, for it includes important lesson for the rest of the world. Beginning with the obvious, Apartheid was Read the full article…
