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Jordan Chamberlain very succinctly framed the feeling that many parents are bringing into the voting booth with them: watching the VA gov race feels like i’m waiting to hear if my daughter will be taught math or transgender hormone therapy The responses citing relatively good math scores in Virginia kind of miss the point. Indeed,…
One of my children is learning the standard single-axis political spectrum (no doubt in preparation for the AP test down the road), and the fortunate child enjoyed a free lesson on how inaccurate that is all the way home. I’ll spare you, dear reader, that experience, simply pointing you to the circular political spectrum I…
Things are getting humorous (and obvious) out there. Over the past few days, we’ve all had a good laugh at the Democrat activists (one of them Black) who dressed up as white supremacists to try to tar Virginia Republican Glenn Youngkin. More recently, I noticed local Democrats in Rhode Island gleefully fixating on the story…
As noted in this space recently, most of the drop in the standardized test scores in Rhode Island was among students whose schools were mostly virtual during the pandemic. Now a study out of Japan suggests all that harm was done with no benefit in controlling the disease: There is no evidence that school closures…
A red map might be possible in Rhode Island next year or in 2024, but however quickly it happens, repaired political infrastructure and a willingness to work together are prerequisites both to win and to accomplish anything positive after the election.
Stephen King could write an incredible novel if he were willing to imagine something demonic in wokism.
The level of secrecy and implicit threat against sharing suggests that the Equity Institute and Portsmouth school department know they are skirting a line, whether legal, moral, or political.
Further to my observation this morning about the McKee administration’s attitude toward people who lost their jobs thanks to his vaccine mandate, I note noises nationally from federal contractors that a similar mandate may force them to end their contracts with the government. Sundance writes: As we have continued to point out, a federal vaccine…
In June 2019 — two and a half years ago, when Rhode Island students now in their senior years were finishing their freshman years — the Institute for Education Policy at Johns Hopkins School of Education published a ground-shaking report on systemic failure in the Providence public school system. The first “challenge” the authors emphasized…
Are we even allowed to express such opinions? It seems more common for even conservatives to verbalize disclaimers like, “it was a horrible thing that happened and people should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law,” and so on. Notwithstanding all the hysterical rhetoric surrounding the events of January 6, 2021, two critical…