Voice For Liberty

Tag: Education

  • Star Parker delivers message in Wichita

    In an energetic message delivered to an audience at Wichita State University this Monday, author and columnist Star Parker spoke about breaking the cycle of poverty and other issues facing our country. Early in her talk, Parker noted the irony of the welfare office in Washington (the Department of Health and Human Services) being located…

  • Star Parker to deliver message of freedom in Wichita

    Tonight author and columnist Star Parker will deliver a lecture titled “Breaking the Cycle of Poverty: From Entitlement to Empowerment.” I spoke by telephone with Parker and asked her to give Wichitans a preview of the topics she’ll address tonight. One topic she said she’ll cover is the notion that people do not have the…

  • Author and columnist Star Parker to speak in Wichita

    An evening with Star Parker Sponsored by Johnny and Marjorie Stevens Lecture: “Breaking the Cycle of Poverty: From Entitlement to Empowerment”

  • Americans fail basic test on history and institutions

    If you took a test covering basic questions about American heritage and civics, how do you think you would do? Do you think college freshmen should be able to pass such a test?

  • Jean Schodorf’s education credentials

    Kansas state senator Jean Schodorf, a Republican from northwest Wichita, is testing the waters in the race for the Republican nomination for Kansas’ fourth congressional district. It appears that she’ll use her public education experience and advocacy as a selling point.

  • Articles of interest

    Chemical security, national health care, global warming cost, school order.

  • School choice would save, not cost, Kansas

    As reported in my post Moving Kansas schools from monopoly to free choice, the Flint Hills Center for Public Policy has recently reported how school choice programs could give Kansas a better return on its education dollar. Here’s some additional evidence that Kansas is missing out on an opportunity.

  • Moving Kansas schools from monopoly to free choice

    Paul Soutar of the Flint Hills Center for Public Policy has released a report that tells how Kansas could get better value for the money the state spends on K-12 education. Charter schools and school choice programs could — if not for opposition from the existing public school lobby and teachers unions — provide flexibility…

  • Kansas NEA questions legislative candidates, reveals agenda

    In Kansas, as across the nation, the teachers union is an important political force. Using a powerful message that no one can oppose — the welfare of schoolchildren — teachers unions press their real agenda.

  • Articles of Interest

    Kansas liberal Republicans, student rights, greenwashing, historic preservation, Sotamayor.

  • Are Kansas school test scores believable?

    Kansas public school officials are proud of the achievement of Kansas schoolchildren on state tests. We need to ask, however, whether this accomplishment means that Kansas children are really learning. In the document Kansas Education Summary: A Snapshot of Kansas by the Numbers from January 200, Alexa Posny, Ph.D.. the Kansas Commissioner of Education, wrote…

  • When informed, attitudes toward public school spending change

    One of the problems with forming public policy is the lack of information possessed by the general public, and, sometimes, even by elected officials. A recent research report published by the Hoover Institution titled Educating the Public measures the problem. Importantly, this report shows the changes in people’s attitudes when they receive correct information.