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Ensuring the Resilience of the U.S. Electrical Grid – Part IV: Key Investment Areas and Next Steps Click here to download a printer friendly PDF. Introduction It has been widely observed across many aspects of life that, “knowledge is power,” and this certainly holds true in the case of knowing what is happening and why across the [Read More...]
Ensuring the Resilience of the U.S. Electrical Grid – Part III: Requirements For A More Resilient System Click here to download a printer friendly PDF. Despite all the wondrous aspects of our electrical power grid and our increasing dependence upon it, for all too many of us it is essentially invisible, and as a result we take [Read More...]
Ensuring the Resilience of the U.S. Electrical Grid – Part II: Managing the Chaos – and Costs – of Shared Risks Click here to download a printer friendly PDF. The North American power grid is indeed a modern marvel, and yet at the same time it is increasingly a system facing great risk. Part of this is merely due to the [Read More...]
Ensuring the Resilience of the U.S. Electrical Grid – Part I: Fixing It Before It Breaks Click here to download a printer friendly PDF. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, “Our century-old power grid is the largest interconnected machine on Earth, so massively complex and inextricably linked to human involvement and endeavor that it has [Read More...]
Radicalization of Teacher Education Programs in the United States Introduction These nine essays chronicle prominent examples where the advancement of radical agendas has displaced the development of subject-content mastery in America’s schools of education. Institutional racism, redistributionist ideology, resisting oppression, and equipping teachers with the tools to transform their [Read More...]
Building 21st Century Catholic Learning Communities — A Washington, DC Education Policy Event Event Date: October 16, 9 AM – 12:30 PM Catholic University of America, Pryzbyla Conference Center We hope that you are able to join us for an upcoming education policy event Tuesday, October 16 in Washington, DC, sponsored by the [Read More...]
Don Soifer interviewed on “The Takeaway”, Public Radio International on the future of the Postal Service Lexington’s Don Soifer interviewed on Public Radio International’s “The Takeaway” morning news program, broadcast on 70 stations across the United States. He discusses the Service’s $5.5 billion default, and what it means and doesn’t mean for postal operations. He also [Read More...]
Online Education Advancing in Virginia Schools With online classes becoming more widely available for elementary and secondary students in Virginia, participation and enrollment are starting to grow. Last year, 119 school divisions provided online instruction. A month ago, the Carroll County Public Schools were approved by [Read More...]
Don Soifer Debates Higher-Ed Finance Thom Hartmann’s syndicated show “The Big Picture” Lexington’s Don Soifer debates higher education finance with liberal television host Thom Hartmann on his nationally-syndicated television program “The Big Picture.” The host advocated expanding federal subsidies for higher education as the solution [Read More...]
Postal Trendwatch Q1 FY 2012: Monopoly Service to Worsen, Competitive Service to Improve? Click here to download printer-friendly PDF. Executive Summary The United States Postal Service (USPS) suffered a net loss of $3.3 billion in the first quarter of FY 2012 — approximately $3 billion more than it lost in the same period [Read More...]
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