Veritas Blog

This Saturday's Lancaster Intelligencer again delved into the new Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit. Again, the paper sort of panned it (bad idea, ill conceived):

We are just at the beginning of the race for the White House and already fatigue is setting in for me. The reason for this fatigue is simple: I don't see real leadership happening anywhere at the ... Read More

I am exceptionally ambivalent concerning politics and politicians. This is not because I think that politics is unimportant and it is certainly not because I am ambivalent about the importance of ... Read More

I was away last week, but I returned to find this story on my desk:

The cover article of the Parade Magazine caught my attention yesterday. This does not usually happen. I am not a big Parade reader, but the story was about rebuilding our schools. Here is the ... Read More

I was very distressed by the recent National Review Article in which John J. Miller interviews Wendell Berry. This is not odd (I am often distressed), but it is odd that I am distressed by Berry. ... Read More

This is an ongoing education discussion on an online group. The question that I am trying to answer is what caused the problems in education today the schools or the culture? This website is also ... Read More

I happened on this recent article about how Algebra for American students might need to be jettisoned. Here is the article:

An equivocation is when a term is being used differently by two people (or even by one person). This leads, often, to misunderstanding or bad arguments and decisions. Equivocations can be helpful ... Read More

The signs of systemic collapse in education are becoming more numerous. Here is the big news at present: