On Monday, the Platte Institute released a study discussing teacher selection and evaluation policies in Nebraska, and the basic conclusion was this: Teacher quality matters.
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Read the articleAlliance Defense Fund attorneys filed a petition Wednesday with the U.S. Supreme Court that asks it to weigh in on a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit against Christian student organizations at San Diego State University.
Read the articleWhat do you get when you combine pagans, two witches, and the Air Force Academy? Eighty thousand taxpayer dollars.
Read the articleThe content of the standard education changes from generation to generation, but seldom, if ever, has it deteriorated as it did in the twentieth century.
Read the articleOn this Veterans Day, I want to note an annual event I attended this week, on November 7, put on by the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), which honored six young military heroes.
Read the articleOn January 17, 1973 the Paris Peace Accords were signed by the United States, South Vietnam, Viet Cong and North Vietnam.
Read the articleBelieve it or not, when Nebraska teachers saved some money on their health insurance that they never paid into, many of them wanted the cash remitted to themselves.
Read the articleKiplinger, the business and personal-finance publisher, has ranked Thomas Aquinas College among the top 100 private colleges on its annual Best College Values list.
Read the articlePenn State climatologist Michael Mann takes on critics, in court.
Read the articleWhen New Jersey passed the strictest anti-bullying law in the country, no one thought to protect teachers.
Read the articleUniversity professors need not be performance-oriented once they have gained tenure.
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