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Posted by Andrew J. Coulson on March 9, 2010
By Andrew J. Coulson
Diane Ravitch is a leading education historian. Her work in that field is characteristically thorough and well-researched, and her books The Troubled Crusade and The Great School Wars, in particular, made significant contributions to our understanding of U.S. education history.
On the presumption that Ravitch is as much an expert on policy as she is on [...]
Categories: Politics |
Tags: academic achievement, american education, diane ravitch, Education and Child Policy, education history, education standards, empirical evidence, government curriculum, government standards | 
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Posted by Andrew J. Coulson on March 9, 2010
By Andrew J. Coulson
Diane Ravitch is a leading education historian. Her work in that field is characteristically thorough and well-researched, and her books The Troubled Crusade and The Great School Wars, in particular, made significant contributions to our understanding of U.S. education history.
On the presumption that Ravitch is as much an expert on policy as she is on [...]
Categories: Politics |
Tags: Education and Child Policy | No Comments »
Posted by Jim Harper on March 9, 2010
By Jim Harper
I’ve seen plenty of stories and gotten a fair number of calls from reporters about the national broadband plan. They generally want to get some insight from down in the weeds of the communications world. What do you think of this part? What do you think of that?
But I’m keeping my eye on the ball: [...]
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Tags: broadband, FCC, federal communications commission, national broadband plan, Telecom, Internet & Information Policy | No Comments »
Posted by Jim Harper on March 9, 2010
By Jim Harper
I’ve seen plenty of stories and gotten a fair number of calls from reporters about the national broadband plan. They generally want to get some insight from down in the weeds of the communications world. What do you think of this part? What do you think of that?
But I’m keeping my eye on the ball: [...]
Categories: Politics |
Tags: Telecom, Internet & Information Policy | No Comments »
Posted by David Rittgers on March 9, 2010
By David Rittgers
Washington is consumed once more with the problem of terrorism, driven by the dual pressures of an unsuccessful terrorist attack on commercial aviation and upcoming elections that give politicians an incentive to speak in terms of war. We are again treated to the ridiculous argument that a terrorist attack is either an act of war [...]
Categories: Politics |
Tags: al-Marri, Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, Counterterrorism, criminal law, detentions, Foreign Policy and National Security, Law and Civil Liberties, preventive detention, terrorism | No Comments »
Posted by Ilya Shapiro on March 9, 2010
By Ilya Shapiro
As I blogged last week, the Supreme Court didn’t seem amenable to Privileges or Immunities Clause arguments in last week’s gun rights case, McDonald v. Chicago. This is unfortunate because the alternative, extending the right to keep and bear arms via the Due Process Clause, continues a long-time deviation from constitutional text, history, and structure, and [...]
Categories: Politics |
Tags: clarence thomas, due process, Fourteenth Amendment, jump the shark, Law and Civil Liberties, mcdonald v chicago, originalism, originalist, Political Philosophy, Privileges or Immunities, Scalia, substantive due process | No Comments »
Posted by Andrew J. Coulson on March 9, 2010
By Andrew J. Coulson
The Washington Post ran an incisive op-ed yesterday by Kelly Amis and Joseph Robert on the DC voucher program. As they noted, Sen. Joseph Lieberman is calling on the Senate to restore funding for the program which was terminated on a nearly party-line vote by Congress last December.
A few Democrats (Dianne Feinstein and Robert Byrd) have [...]
Categories: Politics |
Tags: dianne feinstein, Education and Child Policy, joseph lieberman, private schools, public schooling, robert byrd, teachers union, teachers unions, voucher program, vouchers | No Comments »
Posted by Jeffrey Berkowitz on March 9, 2010
When the Dems’ are looking to round up votes for their big government agenda items – their global warming tax and government-run health care bills – the leadership took wavering members behind closed doors and started cutting…
Categories: Health care, Politics |
Tags: Education | No Comments »
