Education

Civics Education for America’s 250th Birthday

• July 13, 2026

Summary The 250th anniversary of America’s founding provides an opportunity for parents, teachers, and students to focus on the core values and principles that shaped our nation. Civics education is…

Fact Sheet

2026 State of Education Spending in Pennsylvania

• June 25, 2026

Overview Demographic trends, most notably declining enrollments, have led to empty school buildings that are costly to operate, forcing considerations on…

Backgrounder

Education

A New Teacher Evaluation System for Pennsylvania

• November 10, 2011

After numerous meetings and conversations with constituents, teachers, school administrators and education policy experts, I have come to the conclusion that we must have a comprehensive way to identify quality…

Commentary

Health Care

The Two Big Lies of Health Care “Reform”

• Nathan Benefield
• August 3, 2009

Here are a couple of good readings on health care policy: The Hoover Institution has a “second opinion” with ten reasons why health care in the U.S. is…

Media

Education

Who’s For the Children?

• Nathan Benefield
• July 27, 2009

In the television comedy The Office, dim-witted boss Michael Scott remarks that he likes giving presents because they are “like this tangible thing that you can point to and say…

Commentary

Freedom Man

• November 18, 2006

Dr. Thomas Sowell, the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, eulogizes Milton Friedman in today’s Wall Street Journal.

Media