Emily Sass is the policy director for the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Center for Innovation in Education.
Kids can’t read. I’m not kidding, the latest viral story from The New York Times proves this. The possible cause of the national literacy decline: Is it No Child Left Behind? How about increased classroom screen time? Maybe pandemic-era school closures? Ultimately, the article declined to say that there is a “single reason for the...
Competition is a part of the American spirit and inseparable from Texas culture. Few things are more enjoyable than watching the two opposing sides battle it out to beat the other. No other time of year captures the spirit of competition better than fall. Between football and the Major League Baseball playoffs, seemingly every day...
Too many policymakers think of the Iranian regime as solely a Middle Eastern matter. But with attentions focused elsewhere, a powerful network of South Asian Shia Islamists operates with near impunity much closer—across the state of Texas. On March 13, a Pakistani Shia mosque in Houston, named the Ali Center, hosted a commemoration for the...