While his Founders Fund concerns itself with challenges
of that magnitude —
life extension, space travel, clean energy — it turns out Thiel has been spending his personal money in
pursuit of an earthier goal: putting Gawker Media out
of business.
Delaware (where my daughter just moved) is right, Secretary DeVos should review this guidance letter, and until the federal government gets its act together on secondary education (which it appears may never happen), families should opt out
of state schools subject to federal dictates, opting in, instead, to learning institutions that embed preparation for exams at a pre-university level that can lead to placement advanced in future course sequences: these advanced level subjects should be embedded within the balanced curriculum that an international baccalaureate education represents, in contrast to the narrow
extension of elementary school that DC bureaucrats remain focused on, as if time had not run out on the Obama administration and its failed efforts to improve the
lives of American youth, now mired in debt that it encouraged in
pursuit of a «North Star» goal that led the United States astray.