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Last month, the school system in New London, Conn., announced it would start distributing free birth control pills to high school girls. It's another example of the government inserting itself into the private life of kids in order to do the work parents ought to be doing.
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A major investigation by The Washington Post has concluded that several members of Congress steered earmarked tax dollars to universities with which close relatives had been involved. The price tag for these earmarks was $60 million.
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A student who had discovered a noose made of rubber bands was angered by an administrator's insufficient response, so she created the list to make the noose seem more threatening.
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"By the way, government subsidies have impacted upon rising tuition costs. It's a conundrum here."
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It would be silly to expect the free market to fix higher ed's problems, because there is currently no free market in higher education, argued Jeff Selingo of The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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Argument erupts at Taylor University during standing-room-only forum on the Arab-Israeli conflict. “The Palestinians have been mistreated,” professor says. "Not only by Israel, but also by the Arab world."