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Rick Pitino, for whom this latest-but-not-only hoops scandal will almost certainly end his coaching career, signed a contract just two years ago giving him nearly $51 million over 10 years, plus big potential bonuses. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
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Is college basketball what the ‘public good’ looks like?

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Asking how to make education dynamic and innovative is the right question. But public schooling? That's the wrong answer. (iStock by Getty Images)
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‘Super schools’ aren’t going to happen in the public sector

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Ultimately, the problem with affirmative action is not affirmative action. African-Americans have been victimized by the government, and assistance to overcome the crippling legacy of that is utterly warranted. But if government undertakes such action, the bedrock principle we never should have violated to begin with -- equal treatment under the law -- will again be trampled. Justice must, therefore, come from the voluntary actions of free people. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Government is the affirmative action problem, private action is the solution

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Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos set off a firestorm recently when she refused to say that she would prohibit potential federal vouchers from going to private schools that don't accept all comers. (AP Photo/Maria Danilova)
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Pluralism and equality need educational freedom

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Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., said during a discussion of eliminating the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program,
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Dear Jeanne Shaheen: If New Hampshire can’t afford education programs, who can?

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Surely no one can be pleased that school choice appears to lead to lower math scores. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
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Do negative test results mean school choice has failed? Perhaps the opposite!

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There is no meaningful evidence that PBS gives preference to libertarian or conservative programming. (Flickr)
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Why shouldn’t PBS air a documentary series on educational freedom?

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Let's look at a few of the education items in the Trump administration's thin proposal. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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Maybe education cuts wouldn’t be so bad

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Equally decent people can, and do, have competing views of what is good. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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No side is ‘shameful’ in Trump’s change to transgender bathroom policy

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Newly sworn-in Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos was met by protesters in Washington, D.C., who intended to make good on the threat to block her at every turn. (AP Photo/Maria Danilova)
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Don’t block the education secretary, end the Department of Education

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