World View

Lower Standards Keep Black Students Down

I'm sorry to see that the debate over education has become mired in race again. When Lt. Gov. Mark Taylor and key African-American legislators opposed Gov. Sonny Perdue's suggestion that Georgia consider linking HOPE scholarships to SAT scores, they claimed to be out to protect black students. I agree with their assessment that, on average, African-American students often underperform white students on standardized tests such as the SAT, but I think that a long-term solution to this problem is a lot more complex. Read more ›

Easy Answers to Poverty

The word "poverty" is one of the more loaded terms in our national vocabulary. It is also perhaps one the most over-simplified "issues" being bantered about in the public square. The media, for the most part, has explained it to us this way: compassionate people who care about the poor favor government programs to help them. Cold-hearted people who want to see homeless children starve to death do not. Read more ›