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Education - Investing in our Children’s Future

BY Administrator, ON NOVEMBER 09, 2009

Maintaining our status as a “shining city upon a hill” is dependent on our commitment to our children and their education. We need to raise standards and encourage choice and competition in our school systems. In Congress, Steve Pearce successfully worked to strengthen teacher training programs and increase student loan forgiveness for many highly qualified teachers. He fought repeatedly to help schools in rural areas and those near military bases. When he returns to Congress, he will continue to pursue an agenda of excellence and opportunity for our education system.

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Education is a Factor in Unemployment Rate

BY Steve Pearce, ON MARCH 03, 2010

We are told the unemployment rate is 9.7% for the month of February. It may be considerably higher, but that is fodder for another conversation.

All employment numbers are aggregates. The 9.7 (or whatever number you feel comfortable) is actually an average of lots of different numbers. Those different subsets are where the real information is in the unemployment report.

For example, people without a high school diploma have an unemployment rate of 15.2%. College graduates have an unemployment rate of 4.9%. That is a stark reality.

The better our education system, the better we compete in the world. The better we compete, the more jobs we have. When we compete in worse fashion, we have fewer jobs.

These are the basics of economic policy. Work hard, educate more, push productivity to higher levels and our national standard of living improves. Fail at these and other nations grab our jobs.

Homeschoolers Meet At Capitol In Santa Fe

BY Steve Pearce, ON FEBRUARY 05, 2010

Yesterday, I spoke to Homeschool kids in Santa Fe at the Capitol.

But that was after we got there.

Mesilla Valley Christian School Visit

BY Steve Pearce, ON JANUARY 13, 2010

Talking With Kids About Government

I spent an hour with 2 different groups of students at the school recently. One session was with 1^st and 2^nd graders, the next session with 3^rd, 4^th and 5^th graders. I like to spend at least an hour when I go in to visit with students. It takes them a little while to get warmed up, but the wait is always worth the time invested. This day was no exception.

We always talk about government, what its purpose is, how it works and the processes involved. Then we actually divide into a House of Representatives and a Senate. I always choose a President and Vice President.

We started today like all other days, the 1^st and 2^nd graders were the first group and they warmed quickly to the discussion.

Kids On The Issues

BY Administrator, ON NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Even Young People Can Grasp The Issues

And Decide What Is Fair And What Is Tyranny

By David Montes, Las Cruces, NM

I have my ups and I have my downs as a substitute teacher. The 'downs' consist of confronting the apathy and the low achievement of many - too many students and even many teachers and schools. But the 'ups' are sometimes enough to make me forget about the 'downs' and to help me stay focused on the good that we can achieve.

Last Friday was an up day. I was substituting in a 10th grade classroom in which the students were studying nationalism. The assignment was for the students to imagine they were establishing their own country. They had to come up with a motto and a national emblem. They also had to answer some pretty interesting questions that involved the running of a government.