This is it for me, at least for this chapter. I am off to join some people who don’t much appreciate voices singing out of key, and while they might be able to get over my public disdain for coaches who punt in opposing territory, it would be rather awkward to continue to point out [...]
Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
The End of the Internet
Posted in Corruption, Education, Energy Policy, Health Care, Housing Crisis, Housing Policy, Industrial Policy, Inspirational, Labor Policy, Meltdown, Middle East, Miscellaneous, NAFTA, Obama, War on Terror on December 15, 2009 | 29 Comments »
The Fierce Urgency of Something
Posted in Abortion, Ben Bernanke, Corruption, Dick Cheney, Education, Energy Policy, George W. Bush, Health Care, Immigration, Marriage Equality, Meltdown on November 4, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Even by off-cycle election standards, this was an odd one. Perhaps it’s just payback for such a good election last year. I’ll trade watching Chris Christie do his Sopranos impression for never having had to listen to this: It’s been just 68 days since that afternoon in Dayton, Ohio, when Senator McCain introduced me as [...]
The Model State
Posted in Corruption, Education, Housing Policy, Labor Policy on November 2, 2009 | 6 Comments »
William Voegeli has an LA Times article on the two different models of large state – Texas and California: California and Texas are not perfect representatives of the alternative deals, but they come close. Overall, the Census Bureau’s latest data show that state and local government expenditures for all purposes in 2005-06 were 46.8% higher [...]
College and Debt
Posted in Finance, Foreigners, Labor Policy, Housing Policy, Football, Transportation Policy, Education on October 15, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Mike Konczal has an interesting post that is popping up all over the place (here, here, and here, and probably somewhere else by now) analyzing a throwaway human interest piece on a woman named Karen King from the Wall Street Journal: Her biggest chunk of debt, $26,000, stems from student loans to pay for her [...]
Chicago on the Plate
Posted in Argentina, Australia, Education, Foreigners, Italy, South America on October 9, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Edward Glaeser (courtesy Stephen Dodson and Ben Casnocha) asks what went wrong with Argentina: A century ago, there were only seven countries in the world that were more prosperous than Argentina (Belgium, Switzerland, Britain and four former English colonies including the United States)… In 1909, per capita income in Argentina was 50 percent higher than [...]
Broken Schools
Posted in Education, Industrial Policy, Labor Policy on August 31, 2009 | 12 Comments »
Steven Brill has a fantastic article in the New Yorker about the New York City Public Schools. As will not surprise anyone who has ever been in a big city public school, the workforce has all the responsiveness of a late-70s auto assembly plant: The document that dictates how Daysi Garcia can—and cannot—govern P.S. 65 [...]
