FayObserver.com December 31, 2010 By Michael Futch Staff writer Mitchell Shird blames America for the gloomy mess his life is in. He holds the nation accountable for the inferior education he received in South Carolina, putting him behind his white classmates in the early days of public school integration. He points the finger at Uncle
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Only Yesterday A president remembers what some have forgotten. Philip Terzian November 22, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 10 Decision Points by George W. Bush Crown, 512 pp., $35 The president left the White House with abysmal approval ratings, and a war which had begun well—enjoying widespread support and historic
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Whites outnumbered in Wake schools RALEIGH In a sign of things to come for the state and the nation, the Wake County school system is no longer made up of a majority of white students. New figures released Tuesday by Wake show that children from minority groups account for a majority of the 143,289 students
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NOVEMBER 20, 2010 Revolutionary Do-Over By JOHN FUND An old Washington story goes that when Martians land near the White House, everyone inside the Beltway flees in terror. Everyone, that is, except for the folks at the favor-factories known as Congress’s Appropriations Committees, who rush to greet the spaceship and say, “We’re here to help
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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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