The Constitution as Written: The Size of the House of Representatives

There are 435 Members of the House of Representatives. According to the Constitution as it was written, and applied at the time it was written, there should be 1 Representative for every 30,000 people. The U.S. population, at this writing, is 309,121,451. Sticking with the Constitution, we should have a House of Representatives with 10,304 Members.

Educational Armageddon

Blog Post from Luke Laurie’s Teacher Blog: http://lukelaurie.wordpress.com/ If we fire teachers to fix schools, who will take their place? Under No Child Left Behind, schools serving the most disadvantaged populations of students are doomed to jump through the Machiavellian hoops of norm-referenced accountability. Indeed the expectations of these schools share much in common with [...]

Something Called “Volcano Monitoring”

Something Called “Volcano Monitoring”
–Indeed, Jindal the whistleblower caught the Feds red-handed wasting money on something called “Volcano Monitoring.” Further investigation has determined that this “science” consists of “monitoring volcanoes.”

Let’s Run Schools Like Businesses

No Child Left Behind, did, in fact, include some of this business-like mentality with its emphasis on ‘products’, ‘quantifiable results’, and ‘accountability’, as well as a degree of privatization. But it could have been worse.

Economic Stimulus-Creative Solutions

If everyone in America made the commitment to gain 10 pounds in 2009, it would increase GDP by an estimated 900 billion dollars!