Sutherland Institute
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Civics should be taught in every grade, not just high school
“Education in something like civics needs to be built like a layer cake, teaching students something in each grade, so that by the time they get to the required high school course, they have some background and understanding.”
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Is COVID-19 planting seeds for an American religious revival?
Respondents appeared to overwhelmingly recognize the importance of religious freedom protections. The index reports that “when it came to voting decisions, a candidate’s stance on religious freedom was an important factor to 78 percent of voters.”
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Local market innovation stabilizing hospital drug supplies nationwide
Civica’s strategy to find a better balance on low prices and stable supplies of critical medicines includes sourcing drugs from the United States and Europe whenever possible, maintaining several months’ safety stock of drugs, investing in backup suppliers, and using…
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Pearl Harbor: Will today’s Americans step up to their own ‘greatest generation’ moment?
Why reflect on a day that seems so far away in the rearview mirror? Because there are some parallels that force us to confront difficult questions, which in turn can teach us important lessons for the problems we face today.
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We wish you a merry Christmas, and a vaccinated new year
Christmastime brings feelings of hope and a desire to help those in need – sentiments that are greatly needed in 2020. Developments in the fight against COVID-19 offer additional reason for optimism and cheer this holiday season.
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SCOTUS ruling shows how religious freedom offers stability in a chaotic time
“It is time—past time—to make plain that, while the pandemic poses many grave challenges, there is no world in which the Constitution tolerates color-coded executive edicts that reopen liquor stores and bike shops but shutter churches, synagogues, and mosques.”
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Families, school choice can help put Founders’ vision back into education
Families are more involved in education than in recent years. And according to one scholar, that’s a good thing because families are in the best position to direct education.
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PBMs and your prescription drug bill
The key to lowering drug costs is increasing competition and not imposing laws or regulations that can have unintended consequences, including higher costs to patients.
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Religious groups called the ‘brightest spot’ in foster care system
“Religious organizations are really the brightest spot in what is an otherwise dismal [foster care] system,” says Naomi Schaefer Riley, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
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Why I am grateful for history education: context, identity and liberty
Civics education, with its emphasis on mechanisms and procedures, means little if people do not understand how its creators came to the conclusions that a government needed checks and balance, for instance, or ought to avoid a king.