Category: Education free market

“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 …

City Council member Yusuf Hakeem explains why he has lost confidence in the mayor’s violence reduction program as Chattanooga city government views gang crime as a policy problem rather than a human one. (AM 1240 …

By Calvin Beisner I often ask people, “Who in his right mind ever thought it made any sense whatever to entrust to the government the shaping of the minds of the people by whose consent …

By David Tulis The meeting downtown of city officials and commercial and industrial bigwigs considered the results of cartel economics in educational services without addressing the fundamental problem. Mayor Andy Berke and Hamilton County mayor …

By David Tulis Sunday’s bout of official pollution by jet aircraft in the war against global warming put me to thinking about the people involved in the program and whether it is a conspiracy. People …