Advancing Digital Learning Reforms Means Hard (and Smart) Work Lies Ahead
Digital learning is much more than a buzzword. It’s a real trend in K-12 education that’s growing faster than any single person or entity can keep up with. The effective use of technology in instruction to enhance student learning experiences takes on a variety of forms — including full-time online education programs and numerous blended […]
ObamaCare’s lower-price “bronze” plans: bells & whistles w/o catastrophic coverage
‘ObamaCare[‘s ‘bronze’] policy would be a lousy deal for someone who needs catastrophic coverage but not all the mandatory bells and whistles.” Continue reading
ObamaCare’s lower-price “bronze” plans: bells & whistles w/o catastrophic coverage
‘ObamaCare[‘s ‘bronze’] policy would be a lousy deal for someone who needs catastrophic coverage but not all the mandatory bells and whistles.” Continue reading
House Bill 1333 Options for Teachers Generates Tweets, Clears First Committee
Last week I brought your attention to Denver teacher Ronda Reinhardt’s story of the union denying her ability to opt out. She was excited to see a legislative solution proposed, a bill that succeeded yesterday at its first official hearing yesterday, passing Colorado’s House Education Committee:
House Bill 1333, sponsored by Rep. Jon Becker, R-Fort Morgan, […]
NBC Teacher Town Hall Participant Talks Technology
Branson School Online elementary teacher Christina Narayan talks about her experience as one of 300 Colorado participants at an NBC televised Teacher Town Hall in Denver on April 15. She shares the perspective of a full-time online teacher, explaining the power of technology to enhance parental choice and promote innovative solutions in education.
New History of Founding Era Conventions
Very few people know that the Constitutional Convention of 1787 only the last of nearly 20 other conventions in which American colonies, and later states, met to deliberate on specified problems. In these gatherings, states met as semi-sovereigns; these were essentially diplomatic meetings. The rule for decision was “one state, one vote.” Those conventions were […]
Colorado Health Benefits Exchange: Computer problems, will progress even if ObamaCare overturned?
The Urban Institute says that the biggest challenge for CO’s exchange that it’s “starting with a flawed foundation, a legacy computer system – CBMS Colorado Benefits Management System – that is inflexible and difficult to modify.” Continue reading
Electric Cars Will Save Us — NOT!
Last week, the Union of Concerned Scientists released a report that found–surprise, surprise–electric cars aren’t all that green (at least from a climate view) if the electricity used to recharge the cars comes from burning fossil fuels. Yet, in a Colbert-like manner, a colleague of one of the report’s authors asks in a blog post […]
Contra Colorado Health Foundation: Fee-for-service medicine not the problem
It is not fee-for-service that is the problem, but the burden third-party payers put on patients and providers alike, without adding any value whatsoever. Continue reading
Transportation Bill Going to Conference Committee
The House and Senate plan to hold conference committee negotiations over the transportation reauthorization bill. Early this year, the House Transportation Committee had approved the most fiscally conservative reauthorization bill considered by congress since 1991, if not since 1982. Yet the bill never reached the floor of the House due to opposition from fiscal conservatives […]
The Constitution’s officers
Proceeding on the very reasonable theory that the Founders knew what they were doing . . . Seth Barrett Tillman has spent considerable effort reconstructing the meanings of different office/officer phrases.
Innovative (Meaning Insane) Land-Use Policy
The Belgian Port of Antwerp needed to expand. But Belgium has a policy that any greenfield development must be offset by set-asides of already developed land. So the residents of an entire town were forcibly evicted and their town declared a “new nature preserve.” The buildings in the town were not leveled, and instead planners […]
