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March 23, 2010

Fanfare on NAS Homepage

Ashley Thorne

NAS.org now greets readers with a festive fanfare; these are the opening bars of Gateways, the title piece of the 2001 album by composer Daniel Asia.

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March 23, 2010

Race Tracking

Ashley Thorne

UMass computer scientists design math tutoring software that matches students with digital coaches according to their race and ethnicity. What message does that send students?

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March 22, 2010

The Left, Pro-Educational Choice?

Candace de Russy

Now here's a novel insight: Greg Forster, a senior fellow at the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, in making the case that school vouchers deliver substantially more educational i......

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March 22, 2010

More on the Political Correctness Front at the UA

Daniel Asia

The Arizona Association of Scholars will be hosting a talk by Robert Maranto on “The Politically Correct University” (his most recent book) next week at the University of Arizona. I have......

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