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Deficiency of American Education
The Tulsa World recently put out an article by
Nancy Zuckerbrod,
an AP writer, on her experiences attempting to get her 5 year-old daughter into a "good" school in England. Though considered to be completely
"normal" by American educational standards, the headmaster of the British school told Mrs. Zuckerbrod that her daughter had a "significant learning
gap" and then proceeded to outline the specific areas of deficiency which included her inability to tell time, recognize simple fractions, read
books,
and write "news".News like this sheds light on the urgency at which America must change the established order of education. While we sit and
discuss whether competition will really help education, true competition, in the form of exceedingly more competent foreigners is on the way.
America will either accept the challenge or continue to bind itself to its own ineptitude.
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Norquist's Health Care Rx in Reason
By: Mark Todd Engler
Americans for Tax Reform president Grover Norquist -- author of
the new book, Leave Us
Alone: Getting the Government's Hands Off Our Money, Our Guns,
Our Lives -- tells Reason magazine's Nick Gillespie in the August-September issue that the three policy reforms he'd most like to snap his
fingers and
make an overnight reality in America are Social Security privatization, implementing searchable transparency websites at all levels of government and
"getting the government out of health care."
A most pressing need with respect to health care, Norquist says, is "allowing you to buy your health care from any state so that you don't have to
live under the mandates and regulations of New Jersey just because you live in New Jersey, but could buy your health insurance from a company in
Iowa."
He also tells Reason he'd certainly like to see more movement "towards health savings accounts where people can pre-save and you're actually spending
your own money." Read MORE.
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Short Memories and Bad Policies
By: Brett Magbee
It's been said, "nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory". . . or as dangerous. Take any public policy discussion today and you will
find someone calling for policies which have been tried and have failed. Consider the Windfall Profits Tax.
Ben Lieberman, Senior Policy Analyst in Energy and the Environment, and Nicolas D. Loris, Research Assistant in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for
Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation, note in their WebMemo, "Energy Policy: Let's Not Repeat the Mistakes of the 70's" that populist
thinking always leads to bad policy. "America is currently facing energy challenges reminiscent of the 1970s. Unfortunately, rising gas prices have
policymakers repeating the mistakes from that decade--mistakes that took a bad situation and made it worse. Read MORE.
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Read
what's in August's issue of Perspective.
Read O-CHIP: Oklahoma's Comprehensive
Health Independence Plan.
August 28th:
"An Agenda for Constitutional Reform" with Andrew Spiropolous
September 18th: OCPA Liberty Gala with Ed
Meese at the Tulsa
Renaissance.
Please visit the events section of our website for more information.
OCPA has launched the second phase of our Capital Campaign. To learn more about how you can
get involved click here.
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