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...purported purpose of the measure is to better track students’ progress and help policymakers figure out where they are going wrong. The database would include students who drop out of college or transfer between institutions. Universities both private and public would be required to yield the data, potentially facing a cutoff of federal funding if they refuse. And there’s no way for students...
...United States. While better data on these students is a worthy goal, there are more effective means of obtaining this information. The Department of Education could actually hear from students, for example, through surveys and interviews. It may not fit as nicely on a chart, but it can yield the necessary information without sacrificing privacy...
...offer an insight into its inner workings. Yet it would be crucial to help our guests understand the meaning of a library—how it is not a repository for knowledge so much as a tool for creating new knowledge; how scholars make old texts yield new answers by posing new questions, and why our ever-expanding collection matters. In this day it is irresponsible to ignore the needs of the many who are cut out from our thriving cultural life, and are not able to understand...
...mutual security. A lasting solution to global terrorism will only come when America can both eradicate terrorism and unambiguously hold the moral high ground. Incidents like those described in this Red Cross report, then, handicap this country’s ability to defeat terror. Although torturing prisoners may yield some helpful strategic information, it is an indefensible and illegal practice. America’s reputation is weakened every time abuses like these are made public—which in turn likely mitigates the value of that information. Equally important, these practices strike at the very bedrock principles we claim...
...early in Bush's second term, the fact that Bush-Cheneyism will never have to seek popular ratification again gives Bush unique freedom of action. Which, in the hands of a President with unusually ambitious goals, will yield perhaps the most energetic--to some, the most dangerous--presidency of our lifetime...