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  1. Lessons in meritocracy: Civil rights attorney Lani Guinier on the failure of higher education

    Americans are a competitive lot, and that can have its advantages, but not necessarily when it comes to educating a generation that will need to collaborate in order to solve our intractable problems. That’s the perspective of civil rights attorney and Ha ...

    18 Feb 2015 - Jared Paben

  2. Smart money: State Treasurer Ted Wheeler on where to put our tax dollars to work

    Oregon State Treasurer Ted Wheeler admits that most Oregonians know very little about what he does — he said even he didn’t know much about the job before he took it. But it’s an important position, and as financial concerns grow across the state, his dep ...

    17 Jul 2014 - Emily Green

  3. Opportunity Initiative a good investment in tomorrow

    What a weird and wonderful election system we have here in Oregon. Myriad initiatives and referendums spinning tens of thousands of signatures into ballot measures in a seemingly endless cycle. This November, one of those initiatives comes from an unlikel ...

    17 Jul 2014 - SR editorial board

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