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Stanley Zhong did everything right. A 4.42 weighted GPA (3.98 unweighted). A 1590 SAT score (1600 is perfect). He’d even launched his own startup (RabbitSign). Yet the 18-year-old Palo Alto-area graduate was stunned when he…

I spent much of last week in the greater Kansas City area visiting microschools and learning pods, and talking to founders, ahead of the Heartland Hybrid & Microschools Summit, hosted by Kansas Policy Institute. All of…

"Allow individuals to build it and make clear that they cannot force others to build it for them, and they will build it. And, most likely, they will not want to blow it up." ~Robert E. Wright

Few directors in Hollywood have more power than Martin Scorsese, the Oscar-winning director of box office hits "Goodfellas," "Casino," "The Departed," and "The Wolf of Wall Street." But…

It happened as I went to grab a new package of baby wipes from under the sink. I flipped on my bathroom light, and I noticed something strange—one of my three mirror light bulbs began flickering and ultimately settled at a…

"While CRT may have been a niche subject as recently as the 1990s, academic journal citations of CRT scholars exploded around the time of the 'Great Awokening' (2013-2014)." ~Phillip W. Magness

Political commentators have yet to learn economics. This is evident by the repeated economic illiteracy peddled by conservative and progressive commentators alike. Matt Walsh’s call to ban pit bulls is no exception. In a…

Perhaps what's most distressing about the latest collapse in high school test scores is that no one seems to be very distressed. You've probably heard the news that ACT scores have fallen for the sixth straight…

"Zoning codes require parking based on rough estimates of demand for 'free' parking at the time of development, ignoring how subsequent economic changes could affect demand." ~Jason Sorens