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The Era of Big What?
Capital Ideas
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D
1.21.1998
Quick, what year is it? The budget is in balance (with “surpluses as far as the eye can see”), unemployment is below 5 percent, inflation is non-existent, the economy is humming along in such fine shape that more than a few economists think (not for the first time) that the problem of the business cycle has been solved, and our southern-accented president is proposing new social spending programs.
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Equi-Debates in the Classroom
The Contrarian
By: Pamela Lewis
1.21.1998
In the 1970s, when I was in high school, feminists asserted a girl’s right to take body shop instead of home economics in public schools. Society was no longer to make presumptions about a girl’s or a boy’s abilities on the basis of sex. Students and teachers were told that girls were just as capable as boys and should be treated equally.
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Charter Schools and the Hard-to-Educate
Capital Ideas
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
1.14.1998
An oft-used argument against charter schools is that they "cream" the best students out of the regular public schools and leave behind the hard-to-educate (i.e., students with learning problems, disciplinary problems, dysfunctional family backgrounds, etc.). The evidence, however, shows the opposite: many charter schools are geared specifically to address the needs of troubled youngsters.
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The First Casualty of 1998
Capital Ideas
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D
1.7.1998
The Winter 1998 issue of The American Scholar is on newsstands now, and you should buy a copy, for it marks the end of this fine journal. Its exemplary editor for 24 years, Joseph Epstein, is being shown the door for not being politically correct. Winter 1998 is his final issue.
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Truth and the Modern University
The Contrarian
By: Katherine Post
1.1.1998
Once upon a time, there were two young women who asked a few questions about the prevailing wisdom, only to find out that even at a university, inquiry should be limited to prescribed subjects.
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