Maggie Gallagher
Maggie Gallagher
Margaret Gallagher, better known by her working name Maggie Gallagher, is an American writer and socially conservative commentator. She wrote a syndicated column for Universal Press Syndicate from 1995 to 2013 and has written books. She serves as president of the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, a nonprofit organization which lobbies on issues of marriage law. She is an executive committee member, former president and former chairman of the board of the National Organization for Marriage, which opposes same-sex...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth14 September 1960
CityLake Oswego, OR
CountryUnited States of America
It's refreshing to go back to the high school and high school kids.
When men and women fail to form stable marriages, the result is a vast expansion of government attempts to cope with the terrible social needs that result. There is scarcely a dollar that the state and federal government spends on social programs that is not driven, in large part, by family fragmentation: crime, poverty, drug abuse, teen pregnancy, school failure, mental and physical health problems.
Charter schools are public schools that operate, to a certain extent, outside the system. They have more control over their teachers, curriculum and resources. They also have less money than public schools.
The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points.
Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.
Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the academic achievement of poor kids. Go ahead, get a little enthused.
Did I violate journalistic ethics by not disclosing it? I don't know. You tell me.
Married people are happier. And there is a lot of evidence that depression is a risk factor. It makes sense that if you are generally happy in life, that would be both a cause and an effect to a longer life.
But the real truth is that it never occurred to me,
But for women, there are more subtle advantages like the financial benefits of marriage, better access to health care and generally less stress and fewer economic worries.
I'd like to take this opportunity to again apologize to my readers for an oversight in not disclosing that I had done a small amount of work for the government in my specialty.
lifelong experience in marriage research, public education and advocacy.
What Oregon's suicide laws actually do is convey social approval to individuals contemplating self-destruction, and to their friends and relatives.
With a variety of differentiated activities, this will help students to learn about themselves as well as their beliefs and values,