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Statement in support of SB 132 – Competency-Based Education Amendments
Testimony given to the State Education Committee by Christine Cooke on February 7, 2018: Members of the Committee, My name is Christine Cooke. I’m the director of education policy at Sutherland Institute. I sit on the Competency Based Learning Review Board, so I’m...
Sutherland Institute supports ‘right to try’ bill
SALT LAKE CITY – Today Sutherland Institute Executive Director Derek Monson released the following statement in response to HB 195 “Medical Cannabis Policy” which passed out of the Utah House of Representatives: “When properly balanced and combined, compassion...
Sutherland Institute releases statement as Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Games begin
{"dynamic":true,"content":"post_title","settings":{"before":"","after":""}} SALT LAKE CITY – Today Sutherland Institute President Rick Larsen released the following statement in anticipation of the Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Winter Games: “In 1996 I had the...
“The Prohibitive Costs of a Value-free Society” – with 40 years of accrued interest
{"dynamic":true,"content":"post_title","settings":{"before":"","after":""}}Forty years ago today, on February 7, 1978, Neal Maxwell presented a luminous message to members of the Rotary Club International. A former professor of political science and later executive...
Millennial women — we need to hear your voices
{"dynamic":true,"content":"post_title","settings":{"before":"","after":""}}Originally published in the Deseret News. The great American experiment only works when all voices are heard — men and women, liberals and conservatives, religious and nonreligious, old and...
Education choice is all about giving students what they need to learn
{"dynamic":true,"content":"post_title","settings":{"before":"","after":""}}Education choice is a principle, not a specific policy. And more people agree with this concept than you might think. At its core, education choice is the idea that we should give each...
Don’t let stereotypes of intolerance hinder our communities
{"dynamic":true,"content":"post_title","settings":{"before":"","after":""}}Originally published in the Deseret News. Most of us aren’t as tolerant as we think. The research says it’s not a liberal-conservative thing — it's a human thing. We’re also good at finding...
The way of the reformer
{"dynamic":true,"content":"post_title","settings":{"before":"","after":""}}FROM THE POWER OF TRUTH, BY WILLIAM GEORGE JORDAN The reformers of the world are its men of mighty purpose. They are men with the courage of individual conviction, men who dare run counter...
Innovations for Growing Education Choice
{"dynamic":true,"content":"post_title","settings":{"before":"","after":""}}Panelists at “Innovations for Growing Education Choice,” a policy panel Sutherland Institute hosted last Wednesday during National School Choice Week, shared innovative ideas that give...
Statement in support of SB 132 – Competency-Based Education Amendments
Testimony given to the State Education Committee by Christine Cooke on February 7, 2018: Members of the Committee, My name is Christine Cooke. I’m the director of education policy at Sutherland Institute. I sit on the Competency Based Learning Review Board, so I’m...
Sutherland Institute supports ‘right to try’ bill
SALT LAKE CITY – Today Sutherland Institute Executive Director Derek Monson released the following statement in response to HB 195 “Medical Cannabis Policy” which passed out of the Utah House of Representatives: “When properly balanced and combined, compassion...
Sutherland Institute releases statement as Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Games begin
{"dynamic":true,"content":"post_title","settings":{"before":"","after":""}} SALT LAKE CITY – Today Sutherland Institute President Rick Larsen released the following statement in anticipation of the Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Winter Games: “In 1996 I had the...
“The Prohibitive Costs of a Value-free Society” – with 40 years of accrued interest
{"dynamic":true,"content":"post_title","settings":{"before":"","after":""}}Forty years ago today, on February 7, 1978, Neal Maxwell presented a luminous message to members of the Rotary Club International. A former professor of political science and later executive...
Millennial women — we need to hear your voices
{"dynamic":true,"content":"post_title","settings":{"before":"","after":""}}Originally published in the Deseret News. The great American experiment only works when all voices are heard — men and women, liberals and conservatives, religious and nonreligious, old and...
Education choice is all about giving students what they need to learn
{"dynamic":true,"content":"post_title","settings":{"before":"","after":""}}Education choice is a principle, not a specific policy. And more people agree with this concept than you might think. At its core, education choice is the idea that we should give each...
Don’t let stereotypes of intolerance hinder our communities
{"dynamic":true,"content":"post_title","settings":{"before":"","after":""}}Originally published in the Deseret News. Most of us aren’t as tolerant as we think. The research says it’s not a liberal-conservative thing — it's a human thing. We’re also good at finding...
The way of the reformer
{"dynamic":true,"content":"post_title","settings":{"before":"","after":""}}FROM THE POWER OF TRUTH, BY WILLIAM GEORGE JORDAN The reformers of the world are its men of mighty purpose. They are men with the courage of individual conviction, men who dare run counter...
Innovations for Growing Education Choice
{"dynamic":true,"content":"post_title","settings":{"before":"","after":""}}Panelists at “Innovations for Growing Education Choice,” a policy panel Sutherland Institute hosted last Wednesday during National School Choice Week, shared innovative ideas that give...