Health CareCommentary
Coming soon to a parking lot near you—a hospital. Federal and state officials are rushing to create temporary medical centers to help patients during the… Read More
Regular readers of the Foundry are probably aware that the federal government’s school voucher program in the nation’s capital, the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship program, is… Read More
Credit the Pittsburgh Tribune Review for being one of the nation’s first newspapers to editorialize about last month’s national Head Start evaluation, which found that… Read More
Who was it who said that the definition of insanity was doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results? According to… Read More
While the federal government already spends as least $25 billion on the existing 69 preschool and child care programs, the Obama administration is calling for… Read More
We received an email today from Education Secretary Arne Duncan. “By now, I expect you’ve heard the good news,” the Secretary wrote. “…at a time… Read More
The Los Angeles Times reports that President Obama plans to call for a “$1.6 billion increase in federal funding for child-care programs” in his upcoming… Read More
Picture the world in 1960 and imagine how much has changed over the past half century. Now picture the average classroom in 1960 and today. … Read More
When a Congressionally-mandated study released in 2008 found that President Bush’s favorite reading program was a failure, it was national news. An article by Greg… Read More
President Obama and other supporters of increasing government spending on preschool have argued that “investments” on early childhood education yield big results later in life…. Read More
