Hillsdale’s Dr. Kathleen O’Toole on K-12 Classical Education
…to have the same common experience. And when I read the story about these high schoolers in Evanston, Illinois. I thought, hmm, you think you’re doing these young people a…
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Landlord’s Foreseeable Duty: Who Is Liable When Crime Lands on the Doorstep?
/by Editorial Staff…purchase, a fellow named Drake Scott was literally executed in the common area — or it’s not even the common area, it was actually on the right of way in…
Trump’s Trial’s Tribulations: Legal Merits of Four Federal Felony Fraud Indictments
/by Editorial Staff…activate Americans’ most intense partisan reactions, the Department of Justice must be seen to be bringing charges that comport with the commonly applied law and its precedent and are not…
Worcester Telegram and Gazette: Black history — blacked out
/by Editorial Staff…composite nation like ours … there should be … no white, no black, but common country, common citizenship, equal rights, and a common destiny.” Kevin P. Chavous is board chair…
Senate Tax Package Misses the Mark on Competitiveness
/by Eileen McAnnenyThe Senate Ways and Means Committee (SWM) recently released its tax relief package, S.2397 – An Act To Improve The Commonwealth’s Competitiveness, Affordability And Equity, estimated to cost $586 million….
Law Enforcement Dividend: Who Benefits When Crime Is Prevented?
/by Editorial Staff…inmate looks Rafael Mangual: Like. Yeah. I mean, I think the first thing to understand here is that incarceration in prison is not even the most common response to a…
Pedro Zamora on Immigrant Entrepreneurs in Kansas City
/by Editorial Staff…through this model of helping the individual reestablish trust in themselves, trust with our organizations we find a common theme amongst all our clients, and then we create these small…
UVA Law Prof. G. Edward White on Law, Race, & the U.S. Supreme Court in American History
/by Editorial Staff…The Common Law. White’s books have won numerous awards, including final listing for the Pulitzer Prize in history in 1968. He was law clerk to Chief Justice Earl Warren of…
Olympic-Scale Doctor Shortage: Tapping International Talent
/by Editorial Staff…the barriers facing foreign trained doctors who want to practice in the United States, but who must face the requirement to repeat residency? His speech suggests that common sense reforms…
Andrew Campanella on National School Choice Week
/by Editorial Staff…someone, , deep platform them different time. And I think it’s going to take people who have the will to be unpopular, to say it, but to find common ground…
Journalist Bari Weiss on Fighting Anti-Semitism & the Cancel Culture
/by Editorial Staff…an intellectually healthy common culture. The interview concludes with a reading from her book on anti-Semitism. Related: Watch a highlight clip of Bari’s keynote speech at Pioneer Institute’s 2021 Peters…
Alex Nowrasteh on How Immigration Is a Boon to the U.S.
/by Editorial Staffhttps://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/chtbl.com/track/G45992/mp3.ricochet.com/2021/12/Episode-39-Edited-_-Mastered-Mp3.mp3 This week on JobMakers, host Denzil Mohammed talks with Alex Nowrasteh, the Cato Institute’s director of immigration studies and author of “The Most Common Arguments Against Immigration and Why…
Alex Nowrasteh on What We Get Wrong About Immigrants
/by Editorial Staffhttps://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/chtbl.com/track/G45992/mp3.ricochet.com/2021/11/Episode-36-Edited-_-Mastered-Mp3.mp3 This week on JobMakers, host Denzil Mohammed talks with Alex Nowrasteh, the Cato Institute’s director of immigration studies and author of “The Most Common Arguments Against Immigration and Why…
Academic Standards
/by Scott W. Graves…Common Core, U.S. History, and other education topics! As a small non-profit, we depend on the generous support of individuals like you to fund our important research and programs. Make…
ROCK THE SCHOOLHOUSE: Sandra Stotsky
/by Scott W. Graves…a Coherent Literature Curriculum, published by Rowman & Littlefield in June 2012. She served on Common Core’s Validation Committee and on the National Mathematics Advisory Panel. She was Senior Associate…
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/by Editorial Staff…conversation in support of state-based reforms. Our analysis informed the conversation nationally, on the Affordable Care Act and the Common Core national education standards, and in Massachusetts, on health care…
Fiscal Management
/by Micaela Dawson…and programs. Please help us continue to educate parents, school faculty and staff, and public officials across the country about the serious problems posed by Common Core national education standards….
Transportation & Infrastructure
/by Scott W. Graves…transportation and infrastructure issues facing the Commonwealth, Pioneer asks the following questions: Does the Commonwealth have a strategic vision for an integrated transportation system? If so, what is that vision?…
US History Instruction
/by Micaela Dawson…U.S. History Instruction under Common Core Lincoln’s Legacy for Our Time: A Transcript of Remarks Delivered by Civil War Historian James McPherson Shortchanging the Future: The Crisis of History and…
Trevor Mattos Shows How Massachusetts Runs on Immigrants
/by Editorial Staff…the country in the Commonwealth today, there are more than 1 million immigrants making up about one in six residents. And while the immigrants of today may come from different…
Former U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos on Edu Federalism & School Choice
/by Editorial Staff…or 9% comes with there’s no reason for the Department of Education to exist states and local districts, and most importantly, parents and families should be at the core of…
Whither METCO?
/by Jim Stergios…now. But later it will require billions of dollars in new costs to pay down the state’s pension liability. More here. Even with these accounting moves, core programs in education…
Proven Approaches to Dropout Prevention
/by Jim Stergios…achievement, cannot significantly reduce its dropout rate? The Commonwealth has continued to experience high dropout rates, especially in large urban and poorer public school districts. The statewide average annual dropout…
Breaking Down Encampments: Court Finds no Right to Sleep Outdoors
/by Editorial Staff…the core of this case, Chris Pesce Johnson. [00:07:46] Joe Selvaggi: So, okay, so this is probably a difficult concept for our listeners to process, which is one cannot constitutionally…
Promoting Policy Probity: Confessions of Hubwonk’s Humble Host at 200
/by Editorial Staff…fallacy that is at the core of a lot of bad thinking. I read and hear and see, and were we to tackle it, I think, it would short circuit…
Smith College’s Carol Zaleski on The Lord of the Rings & Narnia
/by Editorial Staff…the core friends. that were involved in the Inklings, although friends of those friends are important too, are these two figures you just mentioned. C.S. Lewis who I think we…
Our Founding and History
/by Chris Sinacola…emphasis on education. Inspired by the work of British economist Antony Fisher, who had founded the Institute of Economic Affairs, Pete convinced a core group of leaders that a highly…
Erick Widman, Esq.: Immigrants Can Ease Worker Shortage
/by Editorial Staff…our core commitment to one another through these founding principles of liberty democracy fair opportunity the rule of law those things are what unite us and it’s too bad we’ve…
Columbia’s Prof. Roosevelt Montás on the Great Books & a Liberal Arts Education
/by Editorial Staff…at Columbia, where he began teaching in the faculty of the English Department in 2004. From 2008 to 2018, he served as Director of the Center for the Core Curriculum…
MBTA Safety Overhaul: Retooling Teams For Trustworthy Transit
/by Editorial Staff…Dempsey, along with M B T A Advisory Board executive director Brian Hane, wrote a provocative opinion piece for Commonwealth Magazine entitled, digging Into Safety Oversight Options for the T…