Author: sherlockj
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New Business Starts in Virginia by Jurisdiction 2019
by James C. Sherlock With the interest shown in my last post, I think it will prove interesting to this audience to see the distribution of business starts by political jurisdiction in Virginia along with some data to ponder. The preparation I have put together a spreadsheet sourced from the census bureau, and then added…
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Capitalism Transcends the Best Efforts of the Universities to Kill It
by James C. Sherlock We have chronicled here the broad and deep attacks on capitalism by the socialist and Marxist clerisy led by academics and their students in the media. The attacks are bitter and utterly relentless. There is hopeful news. PBS outlets all over the country yesterday published an article titled “The Unexpected Boom…
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Virginia 40th of 45 States for Charter School Friendliness
by James C. Sherlock We have often referenced public charter schools in this space. It is worthwhile to stop and discuss their availability in Virginia. In its eleventh annual ranking of public charter school laws in January of 2020, the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools (NAPCS) has ranked 45 states with such laws. Virginia. Virginia…
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Black Georgia Professor, UVa Ed School Teachers Conference Keynoter, Trashes Brown v. Board and Offers Return to Segregated Schools
We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom by Bettina Love (2019) Reviewed by James C. Sherlock Background and Introduction I became interested in reviewing this book when I watched Dr. Bettina Love, as Associate Professor of Education at the University of Georgia, speak at a seminar for…
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Virginia’s Worst Public Schools and Districts for Black Children
by James C. Sherlock I have competed a study of Virginia’s worst-performing schools in the education of black children. The results presented in this essay represent a scandal of the first order and demand explanations, both from the school boards and the Virginia Department of Education. In my next post I will review two books…
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Initial Observations on the Virginia Election Results
by James C. Sherlock Nobody asked, me, but I offer my Wednesday morning initial assessment of the elections in Virginia. In no particular order, here they are. Until there is a Republican Party of Virginia, not the current Republican Party of me, the party candidates will remain eclectic to the point of statewide incoherence. Not…
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The University of Virginia Eastern Virginia Medical School
by James C. Sherlock With additional information and thoughts generated by responses to my original posts on this matter, I offer this post as a final proposal before the November 15 release of the Sentara-funded “study” of what I call the Sentara Plan for Eastern Virginia Medical school. The nation is short of doctors and…
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UVa Medical School Takeover EVMS – A Real Opportunity for A Lot of Good
by James C. Sherlock I recommend the transformation of healthcare and physician training in the Hampton Roads. I reject both the presumptions and the terms of the current study of a merger of ODU, EVMS, Norfolk State and Sentara to improve EVMS. That study is funded by the organizations involved and the outcome is pre-ordained. But…
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The Strange Case of a Proposed Medical Merger in Hampton Roads
by James C. Sherlock There was a story — “Could EVMS merge with ODU, Sentara?” – in the Virginian Pilot this morning. It was well done and rendered a major public service. A private study is “assessing” a regional merger of Sentara, ODU, EVMS and Norfolk State. “Its task will be to provide recommendations to Gov. Ralph Northam on…
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Voters, Consider the Fate of the Bill of Rights
by James C. Sherlock Before voters go to the polls on Tuesday, I think it a useful exercise to consider the future of the Bill of Rights with a Supreme Court “expanded,” as promised by Democrats if they control the Presidency and the Senate, to provide a leftist majority. To enable that reflection, it is…
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Virginia Beach Schools Ignore One of Nation’s Best Records in Equity to Force Through New “Educational Equity Policy”
by James C. Sherlock You know how people sometimes fail to tell the truth when the truth matters, but you don’t know whether they are lying by omission or are simply ignorant? This is one of those times. In this case, the Superintendent of Virginia Beach Schools will need to provide the answer. This summer…
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All Public Order, Like All Politics, Is Local
by James C. Sherlock Progressives everywhere consider their precious theories more important than actual outcomes. The fact that people get hurt along the way is part of the price they willingly pay for political power. To paraphrase James Lindsay: In fact, you only need to know two key ideas: critical theory is radically skeptical that…
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Loudoun County Schools Threaten the Future of Minority Students
by James C. Sherlock The Virginia Star reports this morning that Loudon County Public Schools has embraced Critical Race Theory (CRT). That move directly threatens the futures of its minority students. Ignoring CRT’s Marxist origins, CRT put into practice as a system of pedagogy in American schools has no track record. Seattle Public Schools…
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Your Most Important School Board Vote Ever
by James C. Sherlock It is no secret that many voters in the past have gone to the polls without any clear idea of who they will vote for in the school board contests. This year, because of the unprecedented twin black swan events of COVID disruptions and the adoption of critical race theory policies…
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Sorority Member Put on Probation for Criticizing BLM
by James C. Sherlock I quote below a story from the New York Post posted today at 7:48 AM and authored by Lee Brown. Karl Marx is alive and living in Kansas. The sound you hear is George Orwell turning over in his grave. Does anyone think this can’t happen in Virginia? A University of…