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Thursday, October 30, 2003


College Scholarships Wasted by Poor High School Preparation
The Detroit News carries a wire service story about state programs that offer merit-based scholarships to graduating high school students. The bad news? Despite their high grades, many are not adequately prepared for college. Some end up taking remedial classes, which means that taxpayers are paying twice for what should have been done once.

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"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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