Andrew Ferguson makes deeply serious points with great wit. In this essay, he makes a point that sings: we make the world better when we tend our own gardens. Those who go looking to serve in great causes often cause great mischief. And worse.
We are especially interested in candidates who could contribute to institutional interdisciplinary priorities with theories of racial, ethnic, feminist and/or environmental politics.
St. Michael's help wanted ad
We don't have enough of those in Vermont already? What ever happened to "diversity?"
(thanks to phi beta cons at nro)
The Vermont legislators are doing a great job. Simply wonderful. And if you don't believe it, just ask one of them. And if you still don't believe it, ask another.
Makes you feel like bursting into song, doesn't it?
Vermont gets the nod from a business looking to relocate from Pennsylvania and to expand. Other states were in the competition and one – Michigan – came up with more financial inducements.
Good news. Let's go for more.
John McCain laid out his education position, consisting of a focus on school choice and teacher quality, to the NAACP. Why the NAACP? Because, despite African-Americans overwhelmingly voting for Democrats, they also are big supporters of school choice. Unfortunately for them, the NEA has more clout within the Party.
no successful civilization in history -- Greece, Rome, England, France, the list goes on -- ever found prosperity through its bureaucrats and lawyers.
Victor Davis Hansen
The bureaucrats and the lawyers will not, however, give up without a fight.
One of Peter Berger's "Poor Elijah" columns showed up today in the Rutland Herald. I confess that I am a huge fan of this common sense educator. He, however, is no fan of No Child Left Behind. Nevertheless, he ridicules a group called Common Core, that has been highly critical of NCLB for supposedly robbing curriculum of content in social studies, science, and the arts.
I might add that the Manhattan Institute has very recently released a study that concludes that high stakes testing in reading and math leads to more proficiency in these other subjects.
"If our state, which has a reputation of being a green state, here and around the country, puts Karl out of business, that would be a horrific outcome."
Herald
Vermont still produces garbage and there is an entrepreneur in the state who has found a way to make a profit from it.
So the bureaucrats want to shut him down and fine him. Well, of course they do.
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