Tag Archives: think tanks

The Malfunction of US Education Policy: Elite Misinformation, Disinformation and Selfishness [book review]

Posted on 04/08/2023 by A.P. Dillon

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, April 2023, 196 pages, ISBN 9781475869941 With scholarly precision, Phelps details the collection of actors that have driven and continue to propel U.S. education policy and preferred narratives. In doing so, he has laid out a … Continue reading →

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Missouri’s Show-Me Institute: Where Liberty (and Censorship?) Come First

Posted on 07/01/2019 by Richard P Phelps

Last year, in response to one of their blog posts, I submitted a comment to the think tank/advocacy group, the Show-Me Institute, headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. I describe what I did, why, and what happened in a Nonpartisan Education … Continue reading →

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101 Terms for Denigrating Others’ Research

Posted on 16/07/2016 by Richard P Phelps

In scholarly terms, a review of the literature or literature review is a summation of the previous research conducted on a particular topic. With a dismissive literature review, a researcher assures the public that no one has yet studied a … Continue reading →

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