Neeley: Public health is really not the concern here. If it were, then giving greater scope of practice to naturopaths (who don't provide effective medical care) than to nurses (who do) would make no sense.
In the past, the debate over the college tuition and debt crisis has produced calls to action on two fronts, both fiscally unsustainable. But today, with the $10,000 degree, universities themselves are beginning to lower the tuition and fees.
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The country now needs an external test like the CLA to perform a task measuring what college students actually learn that should be the central responsibility of the universities on which students, their parents and taxpayers spend so much.
Barba: Today, Texas schools are again inefficient "Ó not because they lack money, but because they lack competition.
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DeVore: Texas education was structured based on an overall philosophy of prized freedoms and liberties where parents held the power.
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Davidson: At the heart of the contraception-mandate debate is a question that has little to do with health insurance or contraceptives and everything to do with the scope of government regulation.