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What the Michigan Decisions Mean for California
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
6.25.2003
On Monday the U.S. Supreme Court struck down as unconstitutional a University of Michigan admission system that granted more points for race than key academic measures. But in another split decision, the court allowed a narrowly tailored use of race for admission to the University of Michigan law school.
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Fast Forward Online Music
ePolicy
6.24.2003
Online music circles are abuzz that Microsoft, Yahoo, Amazon, and AOL Time Warner are preparing to launch services that compete with the overwhelmingly successful Apple iTunes store, an a la carte menu of downloadable songs for 99 cents each.
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Pillage People
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
6.18.2003
Californians hand over 33 percent of their income to government at all levels, the fourth highest tax burden in the nation. Yet the state Assembly is worried that the people are not taxed enough.
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Chaos Raines -or- Howell Sweet It Is
Capital Ideas
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D
6.11.2003
Okay, it’s true. I admit it. The irresistibly obvious pun in the headline is driving the content of this Capital Ideas. But who can resist the delicious justice of this moment: the New York Times’ egregious executive editor Howell Raines being brought low by a new form of media. No, not talk radio, but the Internet; specifically the “bloggers” who kept a relentless spotlight on the degradation of the Times under Raines’s leadership. Consider this the Internet’s Woodward-Bernstein moment, this time bringing down a previously unassailable liberal institution.
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Remember the Moral Case for School Choice
Capital Ideas
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
6.4.2003
With the continuing inadequate performance of the public schools, it is understandable that school-choice advocates have focused on empirical studies showing the improved achievement of students in various choice programs. While the use of empirical evidence to buttress the case is important, one cannot forget that the strongest arguments for school choice are moral and philosophical.
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Free the Universities:Reforming Higher Education To Keep Up With The Information Age
By: Ryan Amacher, Roger Meiners
6.1.2003
Practices and procedures that seemed to make sense in an earlier time, now seem anachronistic at best, and fundamental impediments to growth at worst. Amacher and Meiners bring novel reflections to many of the most classic and widely recognized issues and topics facing American universities, including faculty tenure and “dead wood,” instruction of undergraduates by graduate assistants instead of faculty, tuition increases, outdated courses and majors, board of trustee oversight and administrative leadership, and (for public universities) system-wide governance, to name a few.
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