I could almost respect Rep. David Lust. Almost: For the second consecutive year, a bill to make texting while driving illegal in South Dakota was shot down in the State Legislature. South Dakota now remains one of only eight states…
Posts tagged as “research”
I'm busy at work practicing making the top 20%. But for your consideration, Michael Black submits this study from Ludger Woessmann that suggests countries with some sort of teacher merit pay system have somewhat higher student test scores. Cue Tony…
[Fair warning: I'm going to use some coarse language at the end of this post.] The Lake Area Improvement Corporation extends its begging for taxpayer handouts to Lake County taxpayers today. At 12:15 this afternoon (Tuesday), the Lake County Commission…
My friend Mr. Kurtz regularly discusses "red-state failure." He'll find another brief for his red-state failure folder in Nathan Johnson's latest blog post. Reporter Johnson reads some science and learns that lesbian, gay, and bisexual youth are more likely to…