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When politicians pass laws and regulators make rules aimed at punishing corporations, the big companies usually aren't the ones that really feel the pain. The real victims are small businesses — often with no more than 50 employees — who don't have armies of lobbyists to create special
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Politicians and policy experts have argued for two decades about the merits of charter schools, with many studies showing the alternative public schools perform as well as or better than traditional tax-funded schools. But what do parents think?
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The results are in for one of the most important global rankings in education — and the scores for the United States aren't good. The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a test completed by more than 500,000 15-year-old students in 72 countries every three years in
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For years, as college costs have ballooned, many economists have warned of a "higher-education bubble" and have sounded the alarm about a student-debt crisis. Massive new datasets can help policymakers and researchers to better understand the roots of the crisis as well as craft sound solutions. With more
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A new 400-page report by the World Economic Forum reveals the current state of economic competitiveness for almost 140 countries around the world and offers analysis on the trends that will determine the economic landscape of the future. The report measures countries across three "subindexes," each measured by
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In the age of breakneck technological innovation, one aspect of government the digital revolution has yet to touch: voting. It's surprising we still use volunteer poll workers, outdated machines and manual name validation at the thousands of polling places across the country. It creates the opportunity for fraud
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The Digital Revolution is upon us, and it has profound implications for our way of life. With so many contradicting narratives (based mostly on opinion rather than fact), it's about time for a book to fully consider how our future may look. Ryan Avent's "The
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College is supposed to be a time of open-mindedness — learning critical thinking skills while surrounded by a diversity of opinions. Yet it seems like every day, another story surfaces about conservative students being silenced by their professors or university administrations. For example, a student at Hagerstown Community College in Maryland