There are plenty of reasons to hate the continuing resolution the House passed Friday. Here are but a few.
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The USDA’s Thintervention
On Monday, the United States Department of Agriculture and Department of Health and Human Services — the guys responsible for the ever-evolving “food pyramid” — released their national nutrition guidelines, which they update every five years. The basic message of the report: Eat less, make more of what you eat vegetables and fruits, and eat […]
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What Stock Prices Tell Us About Higher-Education Policy.
Yesterday, reports emerged that stock prices on many for-profit education companies (you probably recognize their names from online or television advertising) have ticked upward despite a decline in enrollment. DeVry University shares shot up 9.8 percent in afternoon trading yesterday despite the fact that their enrollment fell 4.7 percent this fall. Why the sudden spike? […]
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Rhee: I Don’t Hate Unions.
This piece from Ben Smith and Byron Tau includes a point I tried to emphasize amid all the conservative eulogies for D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee: Rhee finds the GOP adulation “a little odd,” she said. But she’s also allied with a range of Democratic mayors, beginning with Fenty and Johnson and including Los Angeles’ […]
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“Winning the Future” Starts With the Pell Grant.
One of the key pieces in President Barack Obama‘s “win the future” State of the Union speech last night was investment in education. Obama created much buzz in the higher-education community during a SOTU-like speech in 2009, when he challenged everyone in America to pursue at least one year of higher education or post-secondary training. […]
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Nothing for Something
Does pushing higher education for everyone actually make it tougher for poor students to enter the middle class?
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The Vengeance of the Occupation
There’s a limit to how long a fragile democracy like Israel can maintain an undemocratic regime next door.
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Closing The Graduation Gap.
Because de jure racism is largely a thing of the past, the ways in which race and racism impact opportunity are a bit harder to quantify. That’s partly because it’s actually much easier to simply abdicate empirical study by asserting that lingering racial disparities are entirely the result of intractable cultural pathology that can’t be […]
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When the Elephants Come Marching In
In D.C., national elections have immediate, local consequences.
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When It Rains, It Pours, DREAM Edition.
The DREAM Act is the sort of piecemeal immigration-reform legislation that drew the support of Republicans when Bush was president but is now part of Obama‘s radical socialist agenda. In recent days, the DREAM Act, which would offer a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants brought here as children and are either poised to graduate […]
