Articles by starparker_52

Star Parker is a nationally syndicated columnist through Creator's News Syndicate, author of Uncle Sam's Plantation: How Big Government Enslaves America's Poor and What We Can Do About It , and president of CURE, the Center for Urban Renewal and Education (http://www.urbancure.org ). She can be reached at starparker(at)http://urbancure.org .
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How to Spend on Education

The National Education Association wasted no time to use a recent study to affirm the unqualified success of the public-school system and to use it as ammo to further load up in its endless and tireless attack on vouchers and school choice. But there are many things the study doesn’t say, according to Star Parker.

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Some suggestions for the Harvard faculty

The sad truth about a society that becomes increasingly politicized by the day is that the principal victim is integrity. Thoughtfulness and honesty count for less and less and appearances count for more and more.

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Does affirmative action produce more black lawyers?

The study, “A Systematic Analysis of Affirmative Action in American Law Schools,” argues, using statistical analysis, that although total elimination of racial preferences would cause a 14 percent reduction in the number of blacks accepted to law school, there would be an 8 percent increase in the number of blacks actually becoming lawyers.