Opinion Columns
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Charting the real value of an educationOct 08, 2014 1:01 am - I never went to college to make money. (A totally successful business plan, by the way.) Instead, I went for an education. (Another totally successful business plan.) To...
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On Ebola, hard choicesOct 08, 2014 1:01 am - Here is what officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health have been telling us: America has some Ebola infections (a...
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America is defunding its childrenOct 07, 2014 1:01 am - Think of the children. These days, politicians - and their constituents - generally don't. For all their baby-kissing, politicians know that it's the elderly - not suff...
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Ginn approach strives for 'miracles' in educationOct 06, 2014 1:01 am - Ginn Academy resembles no urban public school I've ever visited: all male, dress shirt and tie, the Socratic method employed in classrooms. School spirit seems imported ...
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The slim hopes for change after this NovemberOct 03, 2014 1:01 am - Members of Congress are home now, campaigning for the upcoming elections. Their messages are all over the map, and for a good reason: they have very little to brag about...
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Whose war on women?Oct 02, 2014 1:01 am - It has long been accepted by the conventionally wise that the Republican Party is waging a "war on women." Let's be clear. The war on women is based on just one thing -...
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Slusher: How to use our endorsementsOct 02, 2014 1:00 am - On Sunday, the Daily Herald's Opinion page will begin conducting one of the newspaper's most important functions — participating in the democracy. We want you to join us...
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For-profit colleges earn their bad repOct 01, 2014 1:01 am - For-profit colleges can't get no respect, at least not from employers. Which suggests that maybe they should be getting less generous taxpayer subsidies, too. For-profit...
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Introspection time for evangelicalsSep 30, 2014 1:01 am - Christian conservatives are often the subject of study by academics, who seem to find their culture as foreign as that of Borneo tribesmen. And this is a particularly in...
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Conservatives' short memories on school protestsSep 30, 2014 1:01 am - What's really at the heart of that story from 2010 where five students at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, Calif., conspired to wear T-shirts bearing the American fl...