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Public or Private School Green Road Sign Over Sky
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Keri D. Ingraham
October 24, 2022
Education
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No Incentive to Provide Quality Service or Produce Results

Keri D. Ingraham
October 24, 2022
Education
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One of the biggest differences between public and private K-12 schools is the incentives. Private schools are motivated to satisfy their customers, parents, and families — be responsive or risk losing them. Read More ›
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The Center for Science and Culture
October 21, 2022
Discovery Institute, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design
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What is Human Nature?

The Center for Science and Culture
October 21, 2022
Discovery Institute, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design
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The Center for Science & Culture is pleased to announce that Senior Fellow David Berlinski will be interviewed by Socrates in the City host Eric Metaxas on Berlinski’s latest book Human Nature, published by Discovery Institute Press. We invite you to register for this interview with one of the greatest intellectuals of our time.  The issues involved in the evolution debate — Read More ›

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Wooden toy house model in man's hand on yellow background front view
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Marvin Olasky
October 21, 2022
Homelessness
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Stephanie Creighton

Marvin Olasky
October 21, 2022
Homelessness
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With Creighton as with others, it may be that mental illness doesn’t go away, but at Eden Village it does not rule her. Read More ›
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Young student sitting in the classroom
Keri D. Ingraham
October 20, 2022
Education
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Underfunded & Understaffed — The Reoccurring Themes of K-12 Public Education

Keri D. Ingraham
October 20, 2022
Education
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No regard is given to the poor management of personnel nor the bloated school district bureaucracy and staff rosters. Schools operate an overstaffing model, ignoring enrollment downturns because it positions them well to claim the education system is underfunded, which pulls on the heartstrings of lawmakers and voters. Read More ›
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coronavirus fears close schools worldwide amid the virus pandemic outbreak, school closed or shutdown concept
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Debra J. Saunders
October 19, 2022
Education
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Closed Schools Join with Closed Minds

Debra J. Saunders
October 19, 2022
Education
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COVID school closures hurt American kids. American parents have seen it: The longer schools were closed and replaced with remote learning, the more students fell behind. Read More ›
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Steve Laufmann and Howard Glicksman
November 22, 2022
Intelligent Design
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Your Designed Body

Steve Laufmann and Howard Glicksman
November 22, 2022
Intelligent Design
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Consider your body. Every day it must solve hundreds of hard engineering problems simultaneously, or else you’ll die. While you’re going about your daily business, your body stores, retrieves, translates, and manages software for thousands of proteins, switches, setpoints, thresholds, feedback loops, coordinate systems, counters, and timers. It disassembles thousands of different complex molecules, converts them into their building blocks, Read More ›