Perhaps it’s time that we acknowledge that the affirmative action policies of institutions of higher education, often excused as pursuing diversity for diversity’s sake, are actually doing more harm than good. First emerging during the 1960s, Presidents Kennedy and Johnson signed executive orders calling for “affirmative action” by government employers to prevent discrimination based on […]
Educational Saving Accounts for High School Students is Good Step
February 27, 2012 by
Rep. John Dougall, known in Utah legislative circle as an “ideas guy”* and “freight train”** for the breadth and creativity of the bills he’s carrying this year, had a great idea: why not let high school students and their parents pick the public school solution that best meets their educational needs?
It’s a step in the right direction, if just a small step.
Every once in a while, a good idea comes along. One such idea was… [continued]
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