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Thursday, August 28, 2003


No Surprise Here: Catholic Schools Shine
From this Chicago Sun-Times: "Students in Roman Catholic schools in the Chicago area tend to make better gains on test scores over four years than the average public and private school students, national test data released Wednesday show." As the paper points out, this system includes 83 "high poverty schools." This gives lie to the notion that poverty and poor academic performance need go hand in hand.

"Justice Louis D. Brandeis'?s metaphor of the states as "laboratories" for policy experiments ... had almost nothing to do with federalism and everything to do with his commitment to scientific socialism. .... To this day, it continues to inhibit a truly experimental, federalist politics." -- Michael S. Greve

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