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Getting and keeping talented teachers is the way forward

Since 2019, student academic achievement has fallen rapidly. This may feel like an unprecedented and impossible shift to recover from, but there is one clear way to recover the learning loss: Get and keep talented teachers and leaders for our students. Like other fields, the educator talent ...

My adventures with classified documents

It is easy to start hyperventilating over classified documents. It isn’t the classification but what is in the documents that counts. Much marked classified is rubbish. I have been around the classification follies for years. In 1970, I did what might be called a study, but it was just a ...

Americans support voter ID laws; why are Democrats dead against them?

After the chaotic elections of 2020, Americans wanted common-sense reforms to strengthen the security of elections. One of the most common-sense reforms, already the law in most states, is requiring voters to prove they are who they say they are by providing a photo ID. Georgia was one of the ...

Health insurance cost-shifting is driving patients’ financial burden higher

The federal government recently announced that Americans spent $4.3 trillion on healthcare in 2021, nearly 20 percent of the gross domestic product. This enormous topline healthcare cost actually understates the full extent of ordinary Americans’ healthcare burden. Due to health insurance ...

Holy Cow! History: From mom to motherhood icon

Anna was a typical mom. She loved her kids with the passion found only in a mother’s heart. And something she did for her son made her an icon for mothers everywhere. Here’s how it happened. They say a woman can’t resist a man in a military uniform. That apparently was true with Anna. ...

Consumer safety agency says it’s not coming after your gas stove – yet

The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) chair has a message for America: No, we are not coming for your gas stoves. At least, not yet. A news report from Bloomberg quoting CPSC commissioner Richard Trumka saying a ban on gas stoves and ranges is “on the table” sparked an immediate ...