Any drive to improve our nation’s schools and education system begins with understanding why people enter collegiate schools of education, why they want to dedicate their lives to be teachers and leaders, and why, in too many cases, teachers decide to leave their profession.
It is vitally important for public-policy leaders in Indiana to redouble their efforts to support the development of top talent. The state cannot continue to rank in the bottom 20 percent when it comes to educational attainment and industry-recognized credentials.
They are sobering statistics: 85 percent of about 2,500 inmates in Marion County’s jails have substance abuse problems and up to 40 percent are classified as mentally ill. More than 700 prescriptions are distributed to mentally ill inmates every day—that’s right, every day—at a cost of $650,000 per year. And the county spends more than […]
Instead of portions that could sustain an entire village for a week, Convivio is confident enough to serve a fair but not ridiculous lunchtime repast.
Only a pre-dusk Ebenezer Scrooge would take issue with the overall joy of the annual ISO holiday show.
Things started to get interesting at 66, and it’s been a wild ride ever since.
Kenesaw Mountain Landis became one of the most famous men in America.
If Donald Trump could script his presidency, every week would probably feature another Carrier. You get on the phone with some corporate big shot who’s considering closing a plant in the Rust Belt. You offer some carrots, you threaten implicitly, you make a deal: Jobs stay, factories don’t close, and maybe next time they even […]
Sure, you can buy your uncle a necktie that he won’t wear, or your niece an Amazon certificate that she’ll forget to use. Or you can help remove shrapnel from an injured child in Syria, or assist students at risk of genocide in South Sudan. The major aid organizations have special catalogs this time of […]
Statistics disparities do not equal racism This is a football story with both political and legal implications. It was fourth down in a National Football League game, and the punting team came onto the field. The other team went into their formation to defend against the punt. Then somebody noticed that the man set to […]
Dean Harvey was a giant to those of us who had the privilege of learning from him. His lectures were a wealth of valuable information about how law was actually practiced.
A year ago, I decided I did not know enough about Indiana’s history and set out on a project to blog all 200 years’ worth of it. The project spiraled out of control and ended up spanning more than 110,000 words and 100 posts over the course of a year.
It might be 2018 before the Supreme Court addresses potentially groundbreaking issues in redistricting with major implications for many states, including Indiana.
The United States has since spent 40 years both sustaining a tempered relationship with Beijing while holding a range of informal ties with the Taiwanese.
Many have seen Bill Clinton’s triangulation as simply a pragmatic way of making public policy in the center. Through the lens of history, I disagree.
Seriously, folks, you all need to take a step back from the hyperbole, the histrionics and the hyperventilating. It’s getting really old really quickly.
We can make excuses and say Democrats lost in 2016 because it was a wave. It was undetectable anger, a populist outcry that didn’t show up in the polls. Or we could recognize it as an opportunity.
Now Trump, having won election on the backs of people who can ill afford to carry him, is assembling a leadership team of moneyed misfits poised to usher in an oligarchy. It is clearer than ever that the Founders’ ideals are truly the stuff of history.
The political left seems to have found some moral mandate snatching victory in the popular vote—even after enduring a compelling loss based on the rules everyone understood going into the American electoral process.
Issues I have always believed can and should be solved through Republican leadership. We have all the opportunity and potential in the world. The question is whether we will live up to that potential.
