Category: Education free market

The sun shone and my children frolicked in the sunshine on the broad path. Rue anemone and trillium lined our way as we journeyed along the stream, up towards the majestic falls. Past the broken …

By Jeannette Tulis Lately I have been doing a lot of thinking about how we motivate our children to do what is right, whether it be to do their homeschool lessons, how they relate to …

The Chattanooga nonprofit sector is dangling gift money before people in hopes they will help improve government schools or at least lobby for their improvement. The sector in view of these charitable sentiments in the …

The state has supplanted neighborliness and community with bribery and entitlements, but you know your old dad, 89, is fine for now in his little house at street’s end, and your littlest daughter brings him …

“Why are you here helping me?” I ask the boy. “I don’t know,” Robert Henderson, 10, says. “I just thought I should help.” He works broom and pan. By David Tulis / AM 1240 Hot …

Dr. Dwight Mayberry, a retired public school superintendent from Illinois, is in Chattanooga running an after-school program bearing his name. He tutors students lagging in schools who’ve fallen behind in math and reading. (Courtesy AM …

A program announced by Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam proposes to increase reading skills in East Ridge and other cities, but does not overturn the state’s dyslexic long-term policy goal.

By David Tulis Digital potholes rattled Tennessee’s school testing program to pieces. At least at the point where the program meets the student body. But the shards of paneling, stray screws and smashed server coils …