SEPTEMBER 7, 2010 Education Reform Starts With Pension Reform Because pensions aren’t portable, teachers lose big if they move or switch careers. By WILLIAM MCGURN This week children across the country are returning to the classroom, and with the new school year comes a renewed debate about the best way to challenge the culture of […]
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WALL STREET JOURNAL SEPTEMBER 4, 2010 Broke—and Building the Most Expensive School in U.S. History Benches that talk, a Cocoanut Grove auditorium, and a marble slab engraved with quotes from Ted Kennedy. By ALLYSIA FINLEY Los Angeles At $578 million—or about $140,000 per student—the 24-acre Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools complex in mid-Wilshire is the
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September 1, 2010 New UNC President Has Ties To ACORN Last week, the UNC Board of Governors appointed Wake Forest University President Thomas Ross as the 17th president of the UNC system. While relatively unknown by most state residents, Ross is well known by the politically connected, especially those on the left. In a three-part
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For the week of September 03, 2010 – carolinajournal.com Reaction of the Week RALEIGH — While the North Carolina Parent Teacher Association is becoming less popular among parents, it is becoming more popular among politicians reports Carolina Journal. North Carolina parents are leaving the PTA by the thousands, opting to form independent parent teacher organizations.
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AUGUST 30, 2010 After the Deluge, A New Education System Today close to 70% of New Orleans children attend charter schools. By LESLIE JACOBS New Orleans Five years ago yesterday, the levees broke. Hurricane Katrina flooded roughly 80% of this city, causing nearly $100 billion in damage. The storm forced us to rebuild our homes,
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AUGUST 31, 2010 Reading, Writing, Radical Change Abolish tenure, require more teaching, put star professors online. By NAOMI SCHAEFER RILEY When Mark Taylor’s children were growing up, he made them write a three-page paper once a week each summer between sixth grade and college. “It could be on any subject they chose, and the only
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AUGUST 26, 2010 Big Foot on Campus Why colleges want a waiver from ObamaCare. In the movie “Animal House,” the hilariously loathsome Dean Wormer announces a pointless campus crackdown with the classic line, “The time has come for someone to put his foot down. And that foot is me.” Democrats seem to have had a
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BOOK REVIEW: Explaining the achievement gap Reviewed by Phil Brand- The Washington Times August 10, 2010 ACTING WHITE: THE IRONIC LEGACY OF DESEGREGATION By Stuart Buck Yale University Press, $27.50, 261 pages Generations of black Americans have viewed education as the best way to get ahead economically and to overcome racial discrimination. It is a
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AUGUST 11, 2010 Stimulus Pushers EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: The unions themselves could have prevented some layoffs had they been willing to adjust their rich benefits. In Milwaukee, for example, nearly all of the 500 teacher layoffs announced earlier this year could have been avoided if the unions had agreed to change health plans that
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