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Ford said he scorns the tendency of today's politicians to over-rely on poll results, and he praised Senator John McCain's (R-Ariz.) controversial but insistent support for campaign finance reform...
Ford said that the nation's most under-addressed issue today is education reform, and defended his stance on school vouchers for under-performing students in low-income districts...
Abolish high school? What a great idea! I have often wondered why the educational establishment had not tried a more radical approach to school reform. In the early years of our country, students went to college at an age where our current young people are marking time in high school. And it was not only the elite who were so well-educated. Read the letters of a Revolutionary War soldier for yourself or take a history test from an 1865 textbook to determine the education level of the average person...
Opposition to the provision also comes from the single-issue Coalition for Higher Education Act Reform (CHEAR). CHEAR includes the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People-neither of which have Harvard College chapters-and over 30 other national groups...
...really is a double whammy, especially on the African-American community," said Chris Evans, campus coordinator for the Drug Reform Coalition, which is a member of CHEAR...