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So That's Why College Tuition Is So High
Capital Ideas
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
8.24.2000
How long has it been since you heard a story that made your blood boil? I was recently treated to one at the California Postsecondary Education Commission, where I serve as a commissioner. At our last meeting Jonathon Brown, president of the Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities, related the nightmare experienced by Point Loma College in San Diego.
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Conventional Wisdom, Part Deux
Capital Ideas
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D
8.16.2000
As the Democrats meet this week in Los Angeles, the chattering classes are aflutter about Vice President Gore’s selection of Senator Joe Lieberman as his running mate. But when Gore Vidal turned up in Los Angeles Sunday afternoon at a gathering of “progressives” broadcast on C-SPAN, it became clear that the Vice President had missed an enormous opportunity. If he had picked the esteemed political novelist (who is a distant cousin of Al Gore, by the way), then the ticket would have been “Gore-Vidal.” What could be a more perfect fit for Al Gore than the novelist skilled at reinventing the past?
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Why Did Test Scores Go Up?
Capital Ideas
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
8.11.2000
The recent news that scores on this year's Stanford-9, California's statewide student assessment test, had risen over last year's, especially among second- and third-graders, has been greeted with optimism by education officials. But before they start to celebrate, policymakers and the public should consider the possibility of fraud.
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Gilligan’s Island: Gender Myths and Public Policy
The Contrarian
By: Laura Dykes
8.11.2000
Gender feminists routinely claim that girls are being victimized by a biased school system. But according to Christina Hoff Sommers, author of The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism is Harming Our Young Men, the “diminished girl” crisis is a fiction. Girls typically fare quite well compared to boys.
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Rumble in the Jungle
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
8.9.2000
Things are going to get rough in this column. Oxygen masks will fall from the ceiling. Put yours on first before helping the child next to you. Then breathe normally while I excoriate someone who for years has avoided the whipping he deserves.
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