Recent Articles

The Estimates behind the Estimate

, Michael Watson

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

, Malcolm A. Kline

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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Are Real Economists Bears?

, Malcolm A. Kline

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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Zero Tolerance For Spitballs

, Nisha N. Mohammed

The Circuit Court of the County of Spotsylvania has refused to reverse the expulsion of a 14-year-old honor student charged under a school zero tolerance policy with “violent criminal conduct” and possession of a weapon for shooting plastic “spitwads” at classmates.

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School Choice Double Team

, Anna Corley

 

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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Recent Articles

Aquinas College Plans Deep Cuts, Will Go Back to Main Programs

, Spencer Irvine

Aquinas College, run by the Dominican sisters of the Roman Catholic Church, will be scaling back its faculty and programs in order to focus on its bread-and-butter programs, such as nursing. The small Catholic college saw that by expanding its programs, faculty and residence halls, it was running a budget deficit.

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