SaddleBrooke Republican Club » Education and Child Policy http://sbrc1.net Western United States Largest Republican Club Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:21:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 School Choice Lowers Crime http://feeds.cato.org/~r/Cato-at-liberty/~3/VMf1-mTzDds/ http://feeds.cato.org/~r/Cato-at-liberty/~3/VMf1-mTzDds/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:15:55 +0000 Andrew J. Coulson http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/?p=44201 By Andrew J. Coulson

New research by Harvard professor David J. Deming studied the crime rates of young adults who participated in a random lottery at the middle or high school level. The lotteries decided whether students were able to attend a school of their choice or whether they were forced to attend their assigned public school. Students who [...]

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]]> http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/school-choice-lowers-crime/feed/ 0 Welcome to Our War-torn World, Health Care http://feeds.cato.org/~r/Cato-at-liberty/~3/ectLzooH0Sg/ http://feeds.cato.org/~r/Cato-at-liberty/~3/ectLzooH0Sg/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:02:14 +0000 Neal McCluskey http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/?p=44141 By Neal McCluskey

Cato adjunct scholar John H. Cochrane has a terrific piece in the Wall Street Journal today on the Obamacare vs. religious freedom brouhaha. In particular, though it’s not Cochrane’s main point, I thought this was spot-on: Our nation is divided on social issues. The natural compromise is simple: Birth control, abortion and other contentious practices are [...]

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]]> http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/welcome-to-our-war-torn-world-health-care/feed/ 0 Waiving Goodbye to the Constitution http://feeds.cato.org/~r/Cato-at-liberty/~3/eJ3Wk3HemUU/ http://feeds.cato.org/~r/Cato-at-liberty/~3/eJ3Wk3HemUU/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:47:58 +0000 Neal McCluskey http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/?p=44111 By Neal McCluskey

Today the Obama administration will announce, according to early press reports, that ten states (of eleven that applied) will be receiving waivers from key provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act. That’s right, the 2002 education law passed by Congress and signed by President Bush that absurdly insisted that all children will be proficient in mathematics and reading [...]

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]]> http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/waiving-goodbye-to-the-constitution/feed/ 0 The Irony of the President’s STEM Initiatives http://feeds.cato.org/~r/Cato-at-liberty/~3/bAve6EkdNu8/ http://feeds.cato.org/~r/Cato-at-liberty/~3/bAve6EkdNu8/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:49:26 +0000 Andrew J. Coulson http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/?p=44049 By Andrew J. Coulson

The media tide of the past two days has carried in a great flood of stories on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education. ABC, NBC, AP, Reuters, the Christian Science Monitor, Politico, the Detroit News, and others joined in. This torrent of attention is due to a White House science fair at which the [...]

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]]> http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/the-irony-of-the-presidents-stem-initiatives/feed/ 0 Catholic Schools and the Common Good http://feeds.cato.org/~r/Cato-at-liberty/~3/276KZLviOYM/ http://feeds.cato.org/~r/Cato-at-liberty/~3/276KZLviOYM/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:52:44 +0000 Andrew J. Coulson http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/?p=43609 By Andrew J. Coulson

One of the first things you learn when you start to study the comparative performance of school systems is this: on average, Catholic schools are much more educationally effective and vastly more efficient than state-run schools. And then you learn that their impact goes beyond the three R’s. I wrote a little about these facts [...]

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]]> http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/catholic-schools-and-the-common-good/feed/ 0 Sports Authority http://feeds.cato.org/~r/Cato-at-liberty/~3/iX2ZVPqHYnU/ http://feeds.cato.org/~r/Cato-at-liberty/~3/iX2ZVPqHYnU/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:35:22 +0000 Adam Schaeffer http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/?p=43603 By Adam Schaeffer

Home schooling is the most dynamic and innovative segment of K-12 education. But even with technological advances, co-ops and hybrid schooling, taking on that level of individual responsibility for a child’s education is difficult. One particularly difficult problem for home school families in Virginia and elsewhere is competitive sports, particularly in high school. A private [...]

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]]> http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/sports-authority/feed/ 0 Obama Is Avoiding the Tough College Course http://feeds.cato.org/~r/Cato-at-liberty/~3/B1tQbOgmIno/ http://feeds.cato.org/~r/Cato-at-liberty/~3/B1tQbOgmIno/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:49:16 +0000 Neal McCluskey http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/?p=43379 By Neal McCluskey

College prices truly are ridiculous. But someone needs to tell President Obama that the root problem isn’t the colleges, which he is expected to announce today will be the targets of ...

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]]> http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/obama-is-avoiding-the-tough-college-course/feed/ 0 The School Buildings Are Crumbling!!!!!!!! http://feeds.cato.org/~r/Cato-at-liberty/~3/qrUwPUmn0-Q/ http://feeds.cato.org/~r/Cato-at-liberty/~3/qrUwPUmn0-Q/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:56:48 +0000 Adam Schaeffer http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/?p=43350 By Adam Schaeffer

From the-more-things-change-the-more-they-don’t files, I bring you alarming claims that our nation’s school buildings are crumbling and will soon crush the educational aspirations and physical bodies of children everywhere if more ...

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]]> http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/the-school-buildings-are-crumbling/feed/ 0 ALEC’s New Education Report http://feeds.cato.org/~r/Cato-at-liberty/~3/YlgmYr7HjDw/ http://feeds.cato.org/~r/Cato-at-liberty/~3/YlgmYr7HjDw/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:51:05 +0000 Andrew J. Coulson http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/?p=43269 By Andrew J. Coulson

The American Legislative Exchange Council has just released its latest Report Card on American Education, and will be hosting an event to launch it in Washington, DC, tomorrow, at the Heritage Foundation. I haven’t had a chance to get very far into it yet, but it was established on Monday of this week that ALEC [...]

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]]> http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/alecs-new-education-report/feed/ 0 No Common Schools, No Peace? http://feeds.cato.org/~r/Cato-at-liberty/~3/zF1J8b-f9Lk/ http://feeds.cato.org/~r/Cato-at-liberty/~3/zF1J8b-f9Lk/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:12:43 +0000 Neal McCluskey http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/?p=43218 By Neal McCluskey

Today is the mid-point of National School Choice Week, and we’re once again rockin’ to the oldies of prognostication. This time we’re going all the way back to the Mann. That’s Horace Mann, the “Father of the Common School” himself. It is Mann who, among many things, is probably most responsible for introducing one of the deepest underlying sentiments supporting government schooling: [...]

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