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Test Season Reveals America’s Biggest Failures

It's testing season in America, and regardless of how the students do, it's clear who is already flunking the exams. Last week in New York, new standardized tests began rolling out across the state, and tens of thousands of families said "no dice." According to local...

A 'Fair Shot' Agenda For Education

"Democrats Scramble to Stave Off Midterm Disaster" was the headline in The New York Times article this week reporting on "the problem" the party has with turning out its base in the upcoming midterm election. As the reporter explained, "Young voters have abandoned the...

Extremists In The Education Debate

For people who like to think of themselves as being "exceptional," Americans can sometimes abandon the very principles their exceptionality is founded on. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the current debate of education policy. A feature that has long made...

Free Higher Education Is a Human Right

Social progress is never a straightforward, linear process. Sometimes society struggles to recognize moral questions that in retrospect should have seemed obvious. Then, in a historical moment, something crystallizes. Slavery, civil rights, women’s rights, marriage...

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