MEREDITH: Diplomas don’t guarantee mastery of work or life skills
A diploma cannot guarantee commendable performance in college, respectable employment or even success in life.
A diploma cannot guarantee commendable performance in college, respectable employment or even success in life.
Unfortunately, too many students who make it through high school aren’t well prepared for what comes next.
A real capital cushion would have allowed the banks to absorb the losses instead of the taxpayers.
At this point in America, young people are being barraged with tattooed vulgarians who dominate the rock and reality-show worlds.
Is a failure to raise the debt ceiling unthinkable? Not at all.
Careless voters may be easily swayed by charisma and rhetoric, oblivious to the monumental disasters created around the world by 20th century leaders with charisma and rhetoric.
If the Republican Party were a normal party, it would take advantage of this amazing moment.
Maybe the human spirit is so powerful it will overcome the stupidity of politics.
It would have been thrilling if Hillary 2011 had simply channeled Hillary 1995, when, as first lady, she made her bodacious speech in Beijing, declaring that “women’s rights are human rights.”
The only winners in this game are the attorneys and bureaucrats who make, and often end up breaking, the deals.
The states are free to exclude a provider from its Medicaid program for any reason provided under state law.
Vince Lombardi would want Bennett and Daniels on his team. These two bold leaders refused to quit on our kids.
I appreciate the fact that a team of people go through a day’s worth of information and try to prioritize it for me.
If we’re not careful with this increasingly all-or-nothing mentality, we’ll find ourselves living with tumbleweeds and dirt streets.
Reasonable politicians begin their descent into hell as they look away while others within their constituency have their civil rights eroded.
When I first heard about the downtown Nordstrom store closing, of course I was disappointed.
The campaigns for these new developments were essentially commercials for all these nice and livable communities outside the city.
We are at risk of … bad outcomes from the way we choose the top leadership of our school systems.
the global economy extends to many regions and countries that, while smaller in economic stature, are often overlooked.
What is abundantly clear is that federal spending is much higher than is currently sustainable.