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OST second-graders spent the last school year strug- gling with multiplication tables and spelling tests. One special group from Connecticut, however, apparently conducted an analy- sis of corporate lending practices in devel- oping countries. For on December 16, 2004, they took a field trip to Manhattan, where they picketed the offices of J. P. Morgan Chase & Co. for loan policies that supposedly contribute to rainforest de- struction and global warming. The spon- sor of their expedition, the Rainforest Action Network, was no doubt happy to see these young minds engaged in so much hands-on learning.

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John J. Miller

John J. Miller, a former national correspondent for National Review, is the director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College. He is the author of A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America.

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OST second-graders spent the last school year strug- gling with multiplication tables and spelling tests. One special group from Connecticut, however, apparently conducted an analy- sis of corporate lending practices in devel- oping countries. For on December 16, 2004, they took a field trip to Manhattan, where they picketed the offices of J. P. Morgan Chase & Co. for loan policies that supposedly contribute to rainforest de- struction and global warming. The spon- sor of their expedition, the Rainforest Action Network, was no doubt happy to see these young minds engaged in so much hands-on learning.

About the Author

John J. Miller

John J. Miller, a former national correspondent for National Review, is the director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College. He is the author of A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America.