By Caleb Karpay on September 9, 2007
Public education is the best state-run solution to poverty aside from direct welfare payments. Unfortunately, for a multitude of reasons, public education is failing those it most needs to serve, primarily the urban poor. Charter schools, however, have proven incredibly effective at educating students that many have written off as hopeless because, for instance, those [...]
Posted in Lead, National | Tagged September 2007, Volume VI Number I
By Caleb Karpay on May 1, 2007
This has not been a good year for conservative provocateurs.? First there was Ann Coulter’s conjecture on John Edwards’ sexuality.? Just as that settled itself, Don Imus, the libertarian, PC-eschewing, compound-living talk show host has found himself the target of the easily-outraged, making clear again the repressive temperament of some Americans.? It also revealed the [...]
Posted in National | Tagged May 2007, Volume V Number VII
