Put Department of Education in Timeout by Richard W. Rahn Richard W. Rahn is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and chairman of the Institute for Global Economic Growth. This article appeared in The Washington Times on November 3, 2010. The U.S. Department of Education was created with the primary stated goal of increasing […]
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Will Kane, Chronicle Staff Writer, San Francisco Chronicle Saturday, November 13, 2010 Latinos now make up a majority of California’s public school students, cracking the 50 percent barrier for the first time in the state’s history, according to data released Friday by the state Department of Education. Almost 50.4 percent of the state’s students in the
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NOVEMBER 13, 2010 With ‘parent trigger,’ families can forcibly change failing schools. By DAVID FEITH Debates about education these days tend to center on familiar terms like charter schools and merit pay. Now a new fault line is emerging: “parent trigger.” Like many radical ideas, parent trigger originated in California, as an innovation of a
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From Self-Reliance to Servitude Published on October 21, 2010 by Edwin Feulner, Ph.D. We use a variety of yardsticks to judge whether our country is on the right track. Is inflation up? Has unemployment dropped? What’s the stock market doing today? Here’s another one: Are Americans, who have long prided themselves on their freedom and
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Oct 18 2010 COBURN: Education pork stalls reform Congress can’t stop throwing away your money The Washington Times, By Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. Across the country, America is waking up to the fact that our education system is broken and needs to change. I’m convinced the public understands, now more than ever, that virtually every
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THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR The Obama Watch Closing Time at the Club of Disaffection By Andrew B. Wilson on 10.29.10 Last call for drinks. Last chance to find someone new before the night is done. It’s closing time at the Club of Disaffection. I spent a good deal of time at this club during the turbulent
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Promoting perversity as diversity For the ACLU, better dead drunk than religious By Robert Knight The Washington Times Friday, October 8, 2010 Despite the American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) effort to censor a “religious” speaker, Nebraska high school students got to hear a compelling account of why they should not drink and drive from a
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PURPLE CRAYON Saturday, October 30, 2010 Social Justice in Our Public Schools Wondering why your kid’s teacher took all the new school supplies you painstakingly bought and labeled, and sent to school with your kid? And dumped them unceremoniously into a common bin? Social so-called “justice” has weaseled its way deep into your child’s classroom,
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October 28, 2010 – carolinajournal.com Carolina Journal Exclusive Tax Foundation Ranks N.C. Business Tax Climate 10th Worst in Nation By CJ Staff RALEIGH — North Carolina earns the dubious distinction this week of joining the Tax Foundation’s list of the top 10 states with the worst business tax climates. The John Locke Foundation’s top budget
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At Harvard, Groupthink About Islam A liberal editor stands accused of anti-Muslim bigotry. By RUTH R. WISSE Last Saturday, at a university-sponsored event to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Harvard’s Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, a group of former students launched a research fund in honor of Martin Peretz, a former teacher in the
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