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California keeps begging Washington for financial aid. Sooner or later they will get some help. It’s just another form of redistributing the wealth. We tend not to look at education as a way of redistributing wealth. But, why have college tuition’s gone up so much during a financial downturn? Students who qualify for loans and Read the full article…

Obama and Arne Duncan are scrapping the No Child Left Behind project. They say it isn’t working. Here are the facts. Percentage of eight-grader from households earning more than $40,000 a year proficient at math: 2000 34% 2001 37% 2002 39% 2007 42% 2009 45% No Child Left Behind penalized schools, teachers, and states that Read the full article…