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...laud the president’s ongoing crusade to expand the availability of higher education to low-income students, we reiterate our belief that fundamental reform is needed to rectify the unforgivably inadequacies of American education. Such reforms include expanding charter schools in order to encourage innovation, instituting merit-based pay for teachers in order to incentivize excellence, and raising teacher salaries to attract the best-qualified candidates to the teaching profession. The president’s Race to the Top program, which provides monetary incentives to states that embrace charter schools and merit pay, embodies the approach that...
...These days I’m not really holding the line that much on them, with the cost of school [being so high],” he said. “Apply to more schools, more safety schools that are more likely to give you merit scholarships...
...addition to his tenor and language, the substantive components of Obama’s speech merit praise. Many voters believe that Obama’s administration has been devoting too much attention to health-care reform at the expense of the economy. To address this concern, he wisely spent a significant amount of time focusing on the economy, the middle class, and the middle of the country. By doing so, Obama indicated that his priorities undoubtedly include job creation, education, and a more open government...
...with great dismay that I opened The Crimson this morning to read Adbelnasser A. Rashid’s op-ed “Defending the Indefensible.” It is not that I find his opinions to be without merit, but rather that I found his expression of them as hyperbolic and needlessly demagogic as the ones against which he argues...
...that's because there are no jobs to be found. With an estimated six people applying for every job available, there's plenty of merit to that argument. "Still, the unemployment rate rose from 8.6% in March 2009 to 10% now even as the job-vacancy rate held steady," says Steven Davis, a leading labor economist at the University of Chicago's School of Business...