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Hope & Change in Chile

In light of education reform and comments made by Education Secretary Arne Duncan, CATO Institute’s policy analysis on Chile’s private school voucher program is a great respite from the political battles encircling states across America.

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Ramadan: Lent in a hurry

Maybe Catholic colleges and universities would be more emphatic about Church traditions such as Lent if they thought they were similar to Islamic rites such as Ramadan.

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Student’s Rights SaVEd

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has put out a scathing report and analysis on the Campus Sexual Violence Elimination (also known as “Campus SaVE”) Act that is up for consideration in both chambers of Congress.

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Left-leaning Lecture Halls

Universities like to think of their lecture series as extensions of the education that students get in their classrooms. Unfortunately, they usually are.

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Public Pension Time Bomb

Academic economists rarely fret over who will pay for public employee pensions, perhaps because many of them get them and most of us pay, quite a bit, into them.

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The Subprime Of A Columbia Economist

When we first encountered Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz’s assertion that the Iraq War led to the sub-prime mortgage crisis, we found the assertion a bit of a reach. It turns out that there may have been more to it than met the eye.

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No Waiver Left Behind

The granting of waivers seems to favor states that have voted for the current administration in the last election, at least for the past decade.

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