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Charter Schools: Do they work?

with Caroline M. Hoxbyvia WBHM (AL)
Wednesday, March 10, 2010

There are nearly 5,000 charter schools across the country. . . .

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Panel Proposes Single Standard for All Schools

with Chester E. Finn Jr.via New York Times
Wednesday, March 10, 2010

A panel of educators convened by the nation’s governors and state school superintendents proposed a uniform set of academic standards on Wednesday, laying out their vision for what all the nation’s public school children should learn in math and English, year by year, from kindergarten to high school graduation. . . .

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The Effect of Unemployment Insurance on Unemployment

by David R. Hendersonvia EconLog
Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Last week, I addressed the issue of how much of the current unemployment is due to the many extensions of unemployment benefits. . . .

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Letters: Professors went too far

by David R. Hendersonvia Monterey Herald
Tuesday, March 9, 2010

In a story Friday about the student protests of budget cuts, The Herald reported, "Some professors took students from their classrooms to the rally.". . .

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Should Middle-Class Americans Subsidize $100,000-A-Year Pensions For Government Workers?

with Peter M. Robinsonvia Creators Syndicate
Monday, March 8, 2010

Greece this past weekend saw the worst rioting since the debt crisis began. . . .

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Shocking

by Russ Robertsvia Cafe Hayek
Monday, March 8, 2010

Florida’s plan to save the everglades really saved United States Sugar. . . .

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Insidious

by Russ Robertsvia Cafe Hayek
Monday, March 8, 2010

Daniel Kuehn comments on this post about how United States Sugar used environtalism to exploit the taxpayer: From a purely environmental perspective, the move does make a lot of sense. . . .

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Obama Education Dept. Focuses on Civil Rights in Schools

with Michael J. Petrillivia AOL News
Monday, March 8, 2010

In 1965, Alabama state troopers beat civil rights demonstrators on Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge as they marched for the right to vote. . . .

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California’s Lowest Performing Schools: The 187 Proposition

by Bill Whalenvia Bill Whalen: Politi-Cal
Monday, March 8, 2010

Trying to obtain more federal aid for its beleaguered public-ed system, the State of California has come out with its list of the 187 “persistently lowest-achieving schools”. . . .

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Whitman 20…12?

by Bill Whalenvia Bill Whalen: Politi-Cal
Monday, March 8, 2010

With March Madness and the NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments approaching, a favorite diversion of mine is ESPN’s Bracketology — a constantly updated guessing of which teams are in, which ones are out, and which ones are on the “bubble”. . . .

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