Posts Tagged ‘No Child Left Behind’
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A Modest Education Proposal
Posted on January 14, 2016
I have a modest education proposal. Ok, it’s not modest. It’s revolutionary. I was talking to my brother, the libertarian, and we were having a discussion about Common Core. He...
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The Tortured Path to a Common Sense Education Policy
Posted on July 16, 2015
Thomas Jefferson was a big proponent of public education. He once said, Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation...
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In the Wake of a Scandal
Posted on June 2, 2015
(This originally appeared in The Hill) How do you defend the indefensible? How do you justify the unjustifiable? When it comes to the latest scandal involving my former boss, Denny...
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More on the Majority of the Majority
Posted on January 19, 2013
I have been thinking a bit more about Denny’s Hastert’s famous dictum on the majority of the majority. It is still a very good guideline for how to keep the...
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Waiver Nation
Posted on September 29, 2011
It used to be that waivers were a bad thing. It was bad to be put on waivers if you were in the NFL or played Major League Baseball. That...
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