In his most recent column, George Will said the following: So, two final numbers: Two decades, five factors. Two decades have passed since Barton wrote “America’s Smallest School: The Family.” He has estimated that about 90 percent of the difference in schools’ proficiencies can be explained by five factors: the number of days students are [...]

I own a business that provides school lunch software to charter schools and private schools.  I have also perviously run a school lunch catering business for several years.  I currently get Google news alerts for “school lunch” sent to my email everyday.  There are a few kinds of stories that typically show up.  You get [...]

Just as the Cash for Clunkers program spurred false demand for new car purchases that later resulted in months of poor performance for those in auto industry, we are starting to see a similar pattern emerge where other stimulus dollars spent.  The most recent culprit: the public education system.  As many states faced massive budget [...]

In my previous post, I discussed the recent Obama plan to address the nations youth in an address to school students.  My impulsive reaction was to come out against the speech, and especially against the Ashton Kutcher propaganda video.  I am not changing my position here, although I am less concerned about the speech.  After [...]

to brainwash my kids before the public education system does it for me: A school in Utah decided to show this video to the students on the first day of school.  Of course, most parents weren’t too thrilled about it, and the principal who hadn’t seen it before it was shown had to apologize for [...]

From New Mexico, to Colorado, to Maryland, my google news alert for school lunch flooded my inbox with stories this week about various schools across the country that have enacted policies that disqualify students from receiving school lunch if their accounts are unpaid.  As you would expect, most of these articles are mostly about the [...]

The recent economic crisis is reminding us that, unfortunately, our economy is still inextricably overdetermined by the scarcity of resources.  Despite all of the Icarian efforts and intentions of Wall Street bankers to invent infinite risk mitigating financial instruments, their wings of wax could only get them so close to that symbol infinite resources.  I [...]