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John Bridgeland, CEO of the Washington-based public-policy firm Civic Enterprises, says it's that type of attitude shift, more than legislation, that is likely to lead to change. Messer's 2005 bill made Indiana one of six states in the past five years to raise its minimum dropout age to 18 from 16. (Twenty-three states still let kids drop out at the younger age without parental consent.) Bridgeland, who co-wrote the Gates Foundation--funded report, supports the age hike but warns that states can't legislate in a vacuum. "These laws have to be coupled with...
Folds’ visit marks a break from past campus concerts, which have been planned by the Undergraduate Council. Yesterday’s announcement comes as the council prepares to consider legislation this Sunday that would shift responsibility for concerts and other social programming to an independent body...
Folds’ visit marks a break from past campus concerts, which have been planned by the Undergraduate Council. Yesterday’s announcement comes as the council prepares to consider legislation this Sunday that would shift responsibility for concerts and other social programming to an independent body...
...theory. Every time something goes wrong in politics, he consoles himself by telling me that we are just one step closer to the revolution—an event that, in his mind, entails a drastic but completely nonviolent shift towards a more tolerant and compassionate public policy. I tend to disagree. I’ve never had that much confidence that people will eventually get fed up enough to actually change the status quo.But the recent fight over stricter restrictions on immigration has given me some cause for hope. While the revolution—or anything like it?...
...Plan in August that includes ideas such as a national science and technology center modeled on the National Institutes of Health. Illinois Senator Barack Obama has told the Chicago Tribune his new book The Audacity of Hope, due out in October, will look to show how politicians can "shift away from ideological debates and focus on traditional American common sense...