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2023 Falcon COED Relays

Post author By Falcon
Post date April 8, 2023

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WBND’s Travain Donaldson hands baton to Grant Boal in the 4×100 meter relay at the Falcon COED Relays Thursday April 6, 2023 in West Burlington.

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WBND’s Ady Lamm hands baton to McKenna Marlow in the 4×100 meter relay at the Falcon COED Relays Thursday April 6, 2023 in West Burlington.

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WBND’s Jace Figuereo runs the 400-meter hurdle event at the Falcon COED Relays Thursday April 6, 2023 in West Burlington.

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WBND’s Owen Gulick edges Mediapolis’ Anthony Isley in the 200-meter dash at the Falcon COED Relays Thursday April 6, 2023 in West Burlington.

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WBND’s Kennedy Ritter competes in the 1500-run at the Falcon COED Relays Thursday April 6, 2023 at West Burlington.

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WBND’s Mason Watkins clears the high-jump bar at the Falcon COED Relays Thursday April 6, 2023 at West Burlington.

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WBND’s Laci Felkins competes in the long-jump at the Falcon COED Relays Thursday April 6, 2023 at West Burlington.

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WBND’s Addi Brockway competes in the long-jump at the Falcon COED Relays Thursday April 6, 2023 at West Burlington.

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Danville’s Carter Fesler and Jackson Shacklett run in the 3200-meter run at the Falcon COED Relays Thursday April 6, 2023 at West Burlington.

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Equity: The Thief of Human Potential

Post author By Falcon
Post date March 12, 2023

by Thomas Sowell

Thomas Sowell is an American author, economist, and political commentator who is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

Thomas Sowell is the author of more than 45 books (including revised and new editions) on a variety of subjects including politics, economics, education and race, and he has been a syndicated columnist in more than 150 newspapers. Sowell was born in segregated Gastonia, North Carolina, to a poor family, and grew up in Harlem, New York City.

Due to poverty and difficulties at home, he dropped out of Stuyvesant High School and worked various odd jobs, eventually serving in the United States Marine Corps during the Korean War.

Afterward he took night classes at Howard University and then attended Harvard University, where he graduated magna cum laude in 1958. He earned a master’s degree in economics from Columbia University the next year and a doctorate in economics from the University of Chicago in 1968.

In his academic career, he has served on the faculties of Cornell University, Amherst College, Brandeis University, the University of California, Los Angeles, and, currently, Stanford University. He has also worked at think tanks including the Urban Institute.

Since 1977, he has worked at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where he is the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy.