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The Science of Learning: Classical Education Beyond the Great Books

What does a modern chemistry class have to do with classical education? Founders Classical Academy teacher Myles Dempsey doesn’t even pause for a moment: “Everything.” Students have just filed out from lab class, where they performed experiments with salt solutions. Mr. Dempsey is preparing for his next class. “Don’t you see?” he asks. “We’re in...

April 4, 2022
K-12 Education

A Classical Education

Haley Wade had forgotten all about Founders Classical Academy when her family received the call; after all, she’d been on a waiting list for seven years. But when spots opened up for her and her sister, she was ready. After completing eighth grade at a local middle school in Leander, Texas, Haley was academically inclined...

December 17, 2021
Energy & Environment

Fighting for a Way of Life: Rhode Island

Tom Williams is silent as his son Aaron talks about fishing in the waters off Rhode Island—something Aaron has done his whole life, from helping his father to captaining his own trawler. It’s a tradition he now thinks about passing down to his children. “I remember my dad griping about the cold northeast wind,” Aaron...

December 16, 2021
Energy & Environment

Who’s Going to Feed New York—And America?

MONTAUK, NY—A brisk early season nor’easter kept many local boats in that week, but with Saturday’s forecast looking better, Montauk fisherman Dave Aripotch is willing—he’s weathered much worse than a little cold and a little wind. By 5 a.m., he’s dockside at the fishing vessel Caitlin & Mairead. For now, he lets his crew sleep....

November 18, 2021
K-12 Education

Classical Education Changed My Life—and Formed My Children

“Trainwreck” isn’t a bad description of my academic career. Bored, more interested in reading real books than textbooks, not caring about the things I was expected to in junior high and high school—athletics and social status—I ignored assignments, skipped classes and eventually dropped out. I got nothing from Mesquite High School, and to be fair,...

November 16, 2021
Economy

When TPPF Leads the Conversation, Good Ideas Prevail

Good ideas are our stock-in-trade. Solid research is our brand. That’s why it was so refreshing—even rewarding—to see TPPF Chief Economist Vance Ginn’s debut in the Wall Street Journal, “’Build Back Better’ Would Sink the Labor Market,” receive much-deserved attention and praise in recent days. “It would tax those who produce and subsidize those who...

October 21, 2021
Taxes & Spending

Mind Your Own Business: Conservative Groups Speak Out Against Biden Banking Plan

Do we really need the IRS looking over our shoulders every time we deposit a paycheck? The Biden administration has plan to monitor every bank transaction of $600 or more, ostensibly to crack down on tax cheats. But the plan is troubling for a number of reasons. On Thursday, Oct. 7, TPPF joined other conservative...

October 7, 2021
Health Care

A New Vision for Women’s Care

“Where is the NuVision Women’s Care clinic?” is the wrong question—but we’ll get to that in a moment. The real question is why was NuVision Women’s Care established in the first place? “It came about through my own experience,” says founder Aly Bond. “Like many women, I felt like my provider didn’t listen to me....

August 30, 2021
Immigration

Biden Extends Public Health Order that can Slow Illegal Immigration

Backed into a corner by circumstances at the border and growing pressure from Congress, the White House on Monday renewed a public health order—Title 42—that allows the Border Patrol to turn migrants back at the border over COVID-19 concerns. That pressure from Congress came in the form of a discharge petition on a bill that...

August 3, 2021
K-12 Education

Setting The Media Straight: No, the Texas Senate Didn’t Ban Teaching that the KKK is ‘Morally Wrong’

In recent days, hair-on-fire reports like this one from the Huffington Post claim that the Texas Senate “has passed a bill to eliminate a requirement that public schools teach that the Ku Klux Klan and its white supremacist campaign of terror are ‘morally wrong.’” The reports are misleading at best; even Texas news outlets that...

July 22, 2021
Economy

Federal Judge Halts Relief Funding Program Based on Race

“The Way to Stop Discrimination on the Basis of Race is to Stop Discrimination on the Basis of Race” -U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts Texas Public Policy Foundation attorneys, along with America First Legal, struck a blow against government-sanctioned discrimination. A Biden administration program that “prioritized” COVID-19 relief funds based upon the race...

June 20, 2021
K-12 Education

Yes, Critical Race Theory is Taught in Texas Schools

“The loveliest trick of the Devil is to persuade you that he does not exist.” —Charles Baudelaire Gov. Greg Abbott is likely to sign the bill that will effectively ban the teaching of critical race theory in Texas, but its implementation will be key. In the months that CRT has been debated in Texas, it...

June 1, 2021
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