Wooded Paths

Global warming is real, but the journalists and politicians warning us about the dangers of climate change are as prone to making false clai...

Someone on Twitter: "Tell me the best state without telling me Texas." Several people answered that they don't know, but they ...

There's been a lot of debate online about how various countries have fared in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.   Often the countries c...

A few days ago I was looking at the COVID-19 data at  https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ The website has a table showing data ...

The new US Dept of Education data on university graduates' incomes and debt levels illustrate some enormous differences between progra...

The enormous progress in life expectancy, almost everywhere in the world over the past 200 years, is primarily due to the reduction in chi...

Phonics is an intervention that works – at least in Bethlehem, PA, where the portion of kindergarteners testing at benchmark increased fro...

A recent study of 407,846 children, published in the New England Journal of Medicine ( NEJM ), showed that the older children within each g...

I was reading "The 1970s Global Cooling Consensus was not a Myth" at https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/11/19/the-1970s-global-coo...

Prep Schools and Test Scores How do we rate teachers and schools?  One way, which has the advantage of being objective, but which is stil...