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Middle Class Fighting for Crumbs
If you recall childhood experiences with sharing, like splitting a cookie with four friends, one would almost always have to settle for crumbs. This…
Demographic Changes’ Impact on Early Childhood Education
Education achievement gaps across races and economic strata are a problem throughout the country and, despite a high overall education ranking, Minnesota is no…
Beyond Educational Isolation: Do We Work Together or Fight Each Other?
Here’s my attempt at an appropriately Thanksgiving-related hook. This is a holiday stereotypically fraught with contradictions. What is billed as a holiday about coming…
Discussion: First a Super Bowl, Then a World’s Fair!
From the MLB All-Star game to a youth soccer tournament to a dog show, public events, performances and gatherings are both entertainment and economic…
Lost in the Noise: An All-Payer System
Since 2008, health care reform has been the subject of contentious political debate. Everybody has a fix, be it a public insurance option, the…
More Dangerous, More Costly: An Analysis of Transportation Outsourcing
Download full report (pdf) View online at Scribd Contrary to popular belief, outsourced school transportation services generally have weaker safety records and are more…
A Decade of School Funding Cuts Reversed
Download report (pdf) View online at Scribd After a decade of cuts in real (i.e., inflation adjusted) per pupil state support for K-12 education,…
To Minnesota: A Warning from Kazakhstan
In today's installment of environmental op-eds from Macalester College students, we examine what Minnesota can learn from one of last century's worst natural resource…
Tuesday Talk: Fighting Poverty at School
We can’t allow poverty to be an excuse for poor school performance and achievement. Therefore, Minnesota must build an education system that helps students…
College Debts Hold Back Economic Recovery; Need Assistance
Rising college debts are holding back recovery in the housing markets while housing costs converge with college debts to also hold back recovery for…