BLAME THE MESSENGER

A large, longitudinal, randomized, controlled study recently found that Tennessee’s pre-kindergarten program for low-income children had modestly NEGATIVE effects on academic achievement once the children were in the third grade. The program participants also had more disciplinary problems than non-participants, most …

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They’ve lost control: ‘Elite’ now saying ‘too much democracy is to blame for America’s implosion!

via politico: Democracy’s lamentations sometimes seem deafening these days. “Democracy is dying,” proclaimed a recent article in Foreign Policy—and another in the Guardian, and yet another in Quartz. We’ve reached “the end of democracy,” avows a new book—as well as an op-ed in the Washington Post. But what if these …

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DON’T BLAME CALIFORNIANS

For all of you saying Californians didn’t fight for their state and therefore deserve to live in the squalor that it currently is today…Please recall Prop 187 (also known as the Save Our State (SOS) initiative) which Californians overwhelmingly voted …

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