by jpitney | Jan 22, 2026 | California Politics, Education
Dan Walters: Overall, California’s public school test scores not only fare poorly in comparison to those in other states, but have lost ground in some key areas, as latest results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress revealed in September. In...
by jpitney | Dec 30, 2025 | California Politics, Economic Policy, Education, Environment, Homelessness, Poverty, State Government, Taxes, Transportation
Jim Geraghty at NRO: As I wrote earlier this year, U.S. News and World Report ranks each state on a wide variety of categories. In the most recent assessment, California ranked dead last in opportunity, dead last in affordability, 47th in employment, 47th in energy...
by jpitney | Nov 2, 2025 | Civic Education, civic virtue, Education
Spencer Cox and Ian Marcus Corbin at WP: A pilot program at Utah State University places questions of meaning, purpose and civic responsibility at the heart of general education. All enrolled students will engage with the works of Plato, John Stuart Mill, Lao Tzu and...
by jpitney | Oct 28, 2025 | civic virtue, Education, Religion
How Religious Schools Strengthen Our Republic Religion and the American Experiment, Volume 1 Written by Samuel J. Abrams, Sutherland Institute October 2025 There are at least four mechanisms through which religious schools cultivate democratic virtues: 1....
by jpitney | Sep 13, 2024 | California Politics, Education
Dan Walters at CalMatters: California’s public schools have a numbers problem —and it’s not just that their students don’t score very highly in national tests of mathematics ability. Their other numbers problem is the financial squeeze posed by declining...
by jpitney | Sep 6, 2024 | California Politics, Education
John Fensterwald at EdSource: States’ websites that annually report the scores on standardized tests and other valuable data, like chronic absenteeism, could provide a reality check by clearly and easily displaying performance results over time. However,...
