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WH Advisor’s Academic Retreat

Austan Goolsbee, the chairman of  the Council of Economic Advisers and one of Barack Obama’s longest serving policy advisers, resigned suddenly on Monday just one day after struggling to defend the White House’s economic plan on ABC’s “This Week with Christiane Amanpour.”

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The Estimates behind the Estimate

A think tank at Georgetown University predicts that the American job market will see multi-million job gains over the next decade, but it is far less definite about from where this bonanza will come.

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Unbearable Whiteness of Being

Those who ponder where the class struggle begins in the country with the most movement between classes, up and down, need wonder no more: All they have to do is look at the content of composition courses.

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Shariah Schools

This body of legal beliefs is already taking hold in some surprising places, namely American courts and schools..

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Are Real Economists Bears?

Despite the optimism of the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) about the job market, real data indicate that college graduates will encounter few jobs when they seek employment.

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School Choice Double Team

 

Two advocates for parents rights in education—one of them a congressman—laid out the case for school choice at the Heritage Foundation’s weekly bloggers briefing on May 24, 2011.

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Montgomery County Meltdown

A school district in Montgomery County, Maryland, that is rated highly by the National School Boards Association (NSBA)  has failed to make the grade with the public which it serves.

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