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Posts tagged "educators"

American kids: history dunces

Who knows more about American history: immigrants taking the U.S. citizenship test or products of our schools? I wouldn’t be asking if the answer weren’t so appalling: In the most recent round of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, only one fourth of American schoolchildren tested as proficient in their knowledge of U.S. history. A... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
December 23, 2009 at 2:23 pm
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Bloated Illinois public pensions

How is it that the top 100 pensions in the state are making more money in a year than most of us can only dream about when we’re working a regular full-time job? If the discussion about pension reform in Illinois is boring and abstract, maybe you should look at this and see just how... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
September 27, 2009 at 1:28 pm
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