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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Carolina Journal Exclusives UNC Health Plan Makes Students Pay for Abortion Coverage Students must pay for private coverage to opt out of abortion option By David N. Bass August 10, 2010 RALEIGH — A new policy that requires students enrolled in the University of North Carolina system to purchase health insurance also forces them to
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Free to Choose The 70-30 solution to the new culture war. BY Ryan T. Anderson August 2, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 43 The Battle How the Fight Between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America’s Future by Arthur C. Brooks Basic Books, 192 pp., $23.95 Arthur Brooks thinks
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Bias and bigotry in academia Posted: July 19, 2010 By Pat Buchanan A decade ago, activist Ron Unz conducted a study of the ethnic and religious composition of the student body at Harvard. Blacks and Hispanics, Unz found, were then being admitted to his alma mater in numbers approaching their share of the population. And
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WASHINGTON TIMES Home-school ban in Sweden forces families to mull leaving By Michal Elseth – The Washington Times 3:58 p.m., Sunday, July 18, 2010 COURTESY OF THE LANTZ FAMILY Frode Lantz, who is almost 3, wears a shirt that says, “Classroom: The World Curriculum: Life.” A small change in Sweden‘s schooling law is about to
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Bright Lights, Bad Schoolhouses Teachers’ unions as big-screen villains. BY Sonny Bunch July 26, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 42 Facing thousands of worried members at the annual convention of the National Education Association on July 3, the head of the nation’s largest teachers’ union sounded a little whiny. “Today,
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WASHINGTON TIMES A Speech Every American High School Principal Should Give By Dennis Prager Tuesday, July 13, 2010 If every school principal gave this speech at the beginning of the next school year, America would be a better place. To the students and faculty of our high school: I am your new principal, and honored
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Bright Lights, Bad Schoolhouses Teachers’ unions as big-screen villains. BY Sonny Bunch July 26, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 42 Facing thousands of worried members at the annual convention of the National Education Association on July 3, the head of the nation’s largest teachers’ union sounded a little whiny. “Today,
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The Liberal Dilemma http://online.wsj.com/video/the-liberal-dilemma/D833C636-3F1F-4BC4-B1D4-C77554DC4A11.html
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