Articles in Category: 'students'

By: Kathleen Parker | Posted: October 1, 2011 3:55 AM

WASHINGTON -- Jobs, jobs, jobs, we keep hearing. But for whom, whom, whom?

TAGS: ACTA, Anne Neal, Economy, education, jobs, Joe Lieberman, Josipa Roksa, Lynne Cheney, News, Richard Arum, SAT, students, unemployment, Columns

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The Dumbing-Down of America

By: Pat Buchanan | Posted: June 21, 2011 3:55 AM

"Is our children learning?" as George W. Bush so famously asked. Well, no, they is not learning, especially the history of their country, the school subject at which America's young perform at their worst.

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The Kansas City Closer

By: George Will | Posted: April 23, 2011 3:55 AM

TAGS: Broad Superintendents Academy, Brown v. Board of Education, Gov. Scott Walker, John Covington, News, schools, students, Columns

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'Bloated' Administration Fuels College Costs

By: Kenric Ward | Posted: August 18, 2010 6:00 PM

Universities across America -- including Florida -- are sagging under increasing layers of bureaucratic bloat, a new research study reported Tuesday.

TAGS: administration, Florida Atlantic University, Florida International University, Florida State University, Goldwater Institute, Jay P. Greene, News, students, Teaching, University of Arkansas, University of Central Florida, Universityof Florida

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The Big Bright Futures Lie

By: Nancy Smith | Posted: March 24, 2010 12:01 AM

Former Senate President Ken Pruitt had barely left the building before his Republican colleagues went to work trashing his legacy.

By the end of this session, the Bright Futures Scholarship program, one of the most popular legislative initiatives of the last several decades in Florida, will lie gasping for breath on the Senate floor.

What a sad and senseless story.

TAGS: Bright Futures, Evelyn Lynn, higher education, Ken Pruitt, News, scholarship, students, Columns

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