Education
The two local newspapers published last Thursday a new letter to the editor I wrote about the ongoing NEA teachers’ union contract dispute in East Greenwich. The editorial begins: The issues of retroactive pay and “work-to-rule” are at the heart of the dispute in the East Greenwich NEA teachers union contract dispute. The union expects…
This posting continues a periodic series of postings (here, here, here, here) about some of the strange behavior in the academic community. Roger Kimball weighs in with an editorial entitled “Retaking the Universities: A battle plan.” It is a lengthy piece, worthy of being read in full. Here are some choice excerpts: …In my book…
Professor Bainbridge has a posting about those pesky students at Roger Williams University here in Rhode Island who have done it again. As Bainbridge writes, “What is it about becoming an academic administrator that causes one to lose not only one’s sense of humor, but also the last shreds of one’s common sense?”
This posting continues a periodic series on Rhode Island politics and taxation, building on fifteen previous postings (I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XV). It also builds on several previous postings on educational issues: There are well-known deep performance problems with public education in America. Yet, receiving…
What greater gift can we give our children than a fair shot at living the American Dream? The important contribution of a quality education to having that fair shot led me to write: While hard work alone can make the difference, sometimes it is not enough to make the American Dream come alive for every…
The abysmal performance of America’s public schools is a well-documented fact and has been discussed in a previous posting. George Will has written last week on an idea about how to get more productive public schools: Patrick Byrne, a 42-year-old bear of a man who bristles with ideas that have made him rich and restless,…
I received an email today from someone, who wrote: …how shockingly demanding the unions are at this point. I feel like they are outting themselves as the unreasonably greedy private concerns that they are. This posting is about yet another Rhode Island case study of unreasonable greed by public sector unions.
We at Anchor Rising have been posting about the education problems in Rhode Island since the site’s inception. (Here is a comprehensive rundown of every post we’ve ever made.) One topic we continually revisit has been in the liberal bias in Higher Education (see Justin’s recent post, for example). However, our primary focus continues to…
In the pre–Anchor Rising days of August 2004, I put together a few graphs to add to Marc Comtois’s investigation into RI teacher salaries. The symbolically salient finding of one of my pie charts was that the average Rhode Island teacher could afford to pay another family’s housing costs, including mortgage, and still have the…
