The American psyche is prone to fits of fear that we are falling behind the world. In reality however, we’ve concluded...
If only each of us had an Oddball in our lives to keep out some of the negative waves. If it bleeds it leads is the long held mantra of news agencies throughout the world. Its national news if a factory closes. Its local news if a factory opens. If a bomb explodes in...
Contrary to popular belief, high school students have made significant academic progress in math over the last twenty years. There are two ways to assess the progress of public education in this country: (i) how well students are educated now compared to their...
The American psyche is prone to fits of paranoia and hysteria about our collective status in the world. Less than a decade into the massification of the internet, a feat brought about in no small part by American technology and genius, we are being inundated with...
A reader writes: Brian, I don’t disagree with your analysis, and I don’t have any information to back me up on this, but I think the one thing that has Americans most concerned about the current state of education in this country is that I suspect our...
