Continued . . .
13. September 2, 2014, “Back from Michigan, part 3: Schools of Choice and Charter Schools,” in which I point out that, for all the discussion about charter schools and schools of choice, no one seems to pay any attention to the Michigan experience, where they’ve been operating both these systems for a good two decades.
14. September 16, 2014, “What about a liberal arts GMI?” in which I suggested building a new kind of liberal arts university, centered around internships (with real learning) and portfolio building and charging a tuition rate that corresponds to the lower costs of independent learning.
15. September 22, 2014, “Thinking about density: It’s complicated,” in response to articles claiming that we can “have our cake and eat it two” by reducing our energy consumption through better urban planning.
16. October 7, 2014, “Everything you ever wanted to know about Elternunterhalt,” because all my readers were (actually not) dying to know about the German system in which children are legally responsible for their parents’ nursing home costs.
17. October 10, 2014, “Some data on causes of death,” because, though you wouldn’t know it from Breast Cancer Awareness Month, more men die “untimely” deaths from suicide than women do from breast cancer.
18. October 18, 2014, “The Spartans and History,” or why learning history is meaningful even if it’s thousands of years ago (followed by, later that day, “Thinking about a Core Curriculum.”)
19. October 31, 2014, “What is “death with dignity”? Or dignity, for that matter?” in which I protested against the notion that being cared for by others is “undignified.”
20. December 3, 2014, “In the case of the pregnant UPS worker, there’s no simple answer,” on the call for accommodations in the workplace for pregnant women.
21. December 21, 2014, “The number of non-Americans studying STEM in the U.S. says nothing about appropriate immigration policy,” the title of which is self-explanatory.
22. January 17, 2015, “Islam needs a “Jewish Enlightenment”
23. January 21, 2015, “The logic of childcare tax credits,” in which I discuss the fact that there is a net benefit to the government in getting more women into the workplace, so long as the child-care subsidy doesn’t exceed their total taxes, because very few of the federal government’s expenditures are in any way tied to income, and that this incentive exists regardless of whether or not having small children in full-time childcare is right or wrong for families themselves.
24. January 22, 2015, “Not Puparazzo, but . . .” in which I posted some pictures my son drew with his Christmas-present oil pastels. Not only are the pictures cute, but immediately after posting this, I was linked to by instapundit.com with the pithy comment, “An interesting blog,” which brought a boost in pageviews and, not long afterwards, the invitation from Elizabeth Scalia to blog at Patheos.
So I’ll stop here, then add a part three later. And, coming up, my New Year’s Resolution is to start adding labels to posts, so that readers who are interested in what I have to say about a topic can find similar posts.
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