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School Choice Tax Credit for California?
Capital Ideas
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D., Royce Van Tassell
12.31.1997
While California school-choice supporters have, over the past few years, focused on Governor Wilson's plan to offer opportunity scholarships to children attending low-performing public schools, it is exciting to note the emergence of other intriguing school choice ideas.
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Whither the Industrial Policy Wonks?
Capital Ideas
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
12.23.1997
Perhaps the saddest irony in education today (and one of my pet peeves) is that American students live in the greatest capitalist country in the history of the world, yet end up leaving school not knowing the first thing about how capitalism works. How does one start a business? How does one develop and market a product? How are prices established? Ask a high school senior any of these questions and one is almost guaranteed to get a blank stare.
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Free Enterprise Finally Enters the Classroom
Capital Ideas
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
12.16.1997
Perhaps the saddest irony in education today (and one of my pet peeves) is that American students live in the greatest capitalist country in the history of the world, yet end up leaving school not knowing the first thing about how capitalism works. How does one start a business? How does one develop and market a product? How are prices established? Ask a high school senior any of these questions and one is almost guaranteed to get a blank stare.
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The Sprewelling of Civil Rights
The Contrarian
By: Katherine Post
12.10.1997
While Latrell Sprewell's strangling of his NBA coach may not seem newsworthy, the San Francisco Mayor's response to the event certainly is. Said Willie Brown: "Maybe the [white] coach deserved choking." When in doubt, make it racial.
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Kyoto A-Go-Go
Capital Ideas
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D
12.9.1997
No one has yet commented on the obvious irony of a ten-day UN meeting convened to deplore the production of hot air. Amy Ridenour of the National Center for Public Policy Research distributed a very helpful breakdown of the amount of jet fuel required to get everyone to Kyoto and back - probably enough to power some small African nation for a month. Al Gore's plane alone required more than 65,000 gallons of jet fuel for his round trip - all for a ten-minute speech. This works out to almost 40 gallons of fuel per word. At least it was a recycled speech.
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