Children who are corporally punished have, on average, a lower IQ than children who are not corporally punished. Spare the rod, spare the child.

The 42 senators who voted in favor of pouring money into a unconstitutional, failed educational program this week are listed here.

On the floor of the House of Representatives yesterday, Representative Todd Akin of Missouri declared public schools a menace to society. And teaching children to read? According to Akin, that’s downright Soviet: The thing that strikes me the most, and I don’t want to overuse the welcome that you’ve extended to me, is this. There [...]

Donald Payne is not the most progressive member of the House of Representatives, but he’s no right wing Blue Dog either. With a progressive action score of 56 out of a possible 100, there are a lot of progressive pieces of legislation that Payne hasn’t supported yet. However, in a more generally progressive Congress, he could become a reliable part of a team to move America forward.

Representative Mike Coffman’s official congressional web site has a section dedicated to education issues. However, that section is completely empty.

H.R. 3591, the Constitution and Citizenship Day Act, creates four million dollars for competitive grants to educational programs that teach about the federal constitution and state constitutions.

These programs save the government money, because a baby that isn’t fed adequately, doesn’t get medical care, and doesn’t receive proper education is a drag on the national economy for the rest of its life. Marsha Blackburn and the 21 cosponsors of her legislation can’t see that.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could get the planning grants of the School Building Enhancement Act put together with the infrastructure investment grants of the Green Schools Act, combined with the resources of the Democratic leadership’s economic stimulus package?

Read the Green Schools Act, introduced by Mark Kirk and co-sponsored by Chris Carney. It’s a good bill in its vision, if perhaps too small in its scope.

H. Res. 39 is a slap in the face to public schools and non-Catholic private schools. In these difficult times, doesn’t Congressman Lipinski have more important work to do than to pass pandering resolutions like this?