As area high schools celebrate graduation, many of us are still trying to make sense of the events in Littleton and other communities recently devastated by teenage killers.
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Category Archives: Education / Youth
Questions for Reformers
The voucher movement has been newly energized by the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear a constitutional challenge to Wisconsin’s voucher program. The Court?s denial of certiorari leaves the Milwaukee plan in place, neither affirming the decision of the lower court nor speaking to the legal merits of the case. The Court has…
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Schools and Markets
I believe in the free market. So why don’t I support vouchers for poor children to use at the private or parochial school of their choice? Isn’t my support for public education inconsistent with my libertarian bias? Perhaps. But I would argue that the…
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Educating for New Realities
One of the ironies of the recently concluded IPS busing litigation was the strong desire of the townships to continue receiving minority students. Those of us who followed the original desegregation suit recall that suburban school systems were then–how shall we put it– less eager to include such students.
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Defending Parental Rights
Among the most precious rights of parenthood is our right to raise our children in accordance with our own religious beliefs, free of government interference. Clergy are usually among the fiercest defenders of that right. Ministers and rabbis are more..
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