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Dr. Lance Izumi on why too many kids can't read or do math
Independent Women's Forum | October 23, 2024 | Lance Izumi
"[Bad curricula have] put up blocks for kids. For example, I spoke to a math tutor in…the San Francisco Bay Area. He told me that he works with affluent kids who, when it comes time to multiply simple fractions, like one-half times three-fourths, don’t know that they can just get the answer—three-eighths—by multiplying the numerators and denominators.
"Instead, they’re asked to color pictures and shade in different parts to eventually arrive at the answer of three-eighths."
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The high costs of obstructing LNG exports
Forbes | Wayne Winegarden | October 18, 2024
Thanks to plentiful natural gas, consumers have access to affordable and reliable electricity, an often preferred heating/cooking fuel, and an energy source that has helped reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. Greater use of natural gas is also consistent with the strong preference of “American voters across demographics and partisanship” for “an ‘all of the above’ approach to energy policy” that includes natural gas.
Given these benefits, the continued efforts by federal regulators to obstruct greater natural gas exploration, production, and export is disconcerting. The impact on natural gas exports (which are exported as liquefied natural gas or LNG) is particularly noteworthy given the large benefits to consumers globally.
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Western cities double down on taxes for failing transit
PRI's Free Cities Center | D. Dowd Muska | October 24, 2024
Well before COVID-19, transit was in big trouble. A 2018 analysis found that “factors such as lower fuel costs, increased teleworking, higher car ownership and the rise of alternatives such as Uber and Lyft” were “pulling people off trains and buses at record levels.” Lockdowns put the undeniable decline into a jaw-dropping freefall.
But the politicians, bureaucrats and activists who embrace faith-based transportation policy aren’t losing their religion. On Election Day, voters in several urban communities will be asked to funnel additional revenue to transit systems.
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