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Prize-winning Mathematician Says Common Core Math Doesn’t Add Up
Last fall Marina Ratner was helping her grandson with his sixth grade math homework. His Berkeley middle school had just implemented Common Core, which had been touted as rigorous college- and...
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Obama’s Undisciplined School Discipline Reforms
Keeping kids safe at school should go hand in hand with ensuring high-quality academics. The U.S. Department of Education’s record on both fronts has been poor at best. During the No Child Left Behind...
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High Taxes, Lack of Federal Bailout Make Vermont Cancel Single-Payer Plan
Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin has cancelled his longstanding plan to impose government-monopoly health care in the Canadian border state: Tax hikes required to pay for the system would include a 11.5...
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Constitutional Federalism Beats Feds’ Bribery of the States
Almost five years ago the final Common Core national standards were published. These national standards epitomize government that has grown beyond all constitutional bounds. As elected officials...
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Florida’s Fiscal Policy: Responsible State Budgeting
I’ve written a study for the Mercatus Center at George Mason University on Florida’s state government fiscal policy, which can be accessed here. The bottom line is that in an era of growing government...
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Half of State Medical Boards Perform Poorly When Licensing Out-of-State Doctors
A new research article in the Telemedicine and E-Health Journal shows how difficult state regulatory barriers are making it for doctors to practice effective telemedicine. Telemedicine embraces...
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Education Savings Accounts Challenge Common Core’s One-Size-Fits-All Schooling
With a growing Common Core opt-out backlash by parents and students against one-size-fits all government schooling, it’s no surprise that the latest innovation in educational choice is allowing more...
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Florida’s Financial Health Care Follies, and a Problem with a Part-Time...
The one constitutional responsibility of Florida’s legislature is to pass a budget — something Florida’s solidly Republican House and Senate could not do by the end of their regular legislative...
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