New Orleans The Gates Foundation released a study finding that good teachers made a difference in producing good education for students. Is there anyone out there alive today who ever thought for a minute that teachers don’t make the difference? Gates has a lot of money, but why spend it on something proving the obvious? …
Category: Education
Federal Judge Holds Vouchers are Resegretation in Louisiana with More to Come
New Orleans A federal judge in Louisiana took a hard shot to the gut to the conservative efforts to provide public money to help some parents pay for their children to escape public schools. He called it what it was: an effort to re-segregate the school system. The basis of the decision was equally clear. …
Doonesbury Explains Dinosaur Extinction for Louisianans
New Orleans I don’t read the comics or the funny papers. No big thing, just one of those things where you make a personal decision about time and choose the box scores rather than the talking balloons. But science and politics are still important and when facts confront the popularity and prejudice of people, it’s …