When education reformers say they have new ideas, look at the vintage of their sources.
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Dictatorships Leave Millions Homeless
Antonio Guterres the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, has termed the drop in the number of refugees under the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) mandate as an “illusion.”
Atlas Shrieked
In recent weeks, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has found himself increasingly under public assault, both for his actions leading up to the current financial crisis, and for his attempts to defend these actions.
Chicken Little Lays Egg
Ever since global warming made the leap from scientific theory to purported scientific law, there has been a shortage of discussion on the effects of the policies aimed to combat it.
Another Middle East Crisis
As President Barack Obama made his debut trip to the Middle East, many in Washington, D.C. were left deliberating on whether his Cairo speech would focus on a lasting solution to the ongoing Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
New Deal Nostalgia Deconstructed
With the U.S. unemployment rate hitting a 25-year record high of 9.4 percent in May, economists have expressed pessimism about the future of the economy, but were quick to draw distinctions between the current recession and the Great Depression.<
Anti-ACLU Civil Disobedience
Nearly 400 graduating seniors at Pace High School stood up in protest against the ACLU and recited the Lord’s Prayer during their graduation ceremony on Saturday.
Notre Dame’s Honorary Degrees
ome of President Obama’s supporters have
attempted to justify the honorary degree given him by Notre Dame by
comparing it to an honorary degree given by the same university to
the newly elected President George W. Bush. The cases are in no way
equivalent.
Afghanistan: “Another Vietnam”
At a foreign policy summit on May 27 at the Brookings Institution, national security experts expressed harsh criticism of the Obama administration’s foreign policy initiatives.
Reflections on Memorial Day
May 22, 2009—On Monday, we will mark the 141st anniversary of the first official observation of the holiday we now call Memorial Day, as established by General John A. Logan’s “General Order No. 11” of the Grand Army of the Republic dated May 5, 1868.