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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
False Choices: The Economic Argument Against Market-Driven Education Reform
Download full report (pdf) View online at Scribd After experimenting with market-based, competitive education initiatives for 20 years with little statewide education improvement, it’s…
Tax Migration Myth Exposed
A new study from the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP)* dispels conservatives’ myth that increases in state income taxes cause significant out-migration…
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,…