The Last Economist to Understand that Bad Policy Has Ill Effects
…lie behind the farce that is Arne Duncan’s “leadership”: Children raised in disadvantaged environments are not only much less likely to succeed in school or in society, but they are…
…lie behind the farce that is Arne Duncan’s “leadership”: Children raised in disadvantaged environments are not only much less likely to succeed in school or in society, but they are…
Excepts from an interview with Richard Wolff ( Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. And he is currently a Visiting Professor of the Graduate Program in…
…why they are unable to move upwards on the ladder of mobility. Low income and unskilled workers do not work hard enough, they did not study hard in school or…
The school board proposal that triggered the [student and teacher] walkouts in Jefferson County calls for instructional materials that present positive aspects of the nation and its heritage. It would…
…and those in middle school and elementary school will certainly be fully part of it. So, I forecast that a major development during the next half decade is that the…
…revenue of other districts (something especially hard on school districts), and these revenue fights are matched by the intense hatred the use of eminent domain usually brings forth. The very…
…maybe this Wharton School bachelor’s degree holder, admitted there undoubtedly based, like his father before him, solely on his school transcripts, SAT score, and extracurriculars—I’m presuming no indiscrepecies there regarding…
…the question whether a state that provides grants to schools for upgrading their playground surfaces can constitutionally disqualify a church-run nursery school from eligibility because of its religious character. ……
…in the percentage of those employed who only have a high school diploma vs. a slight *decrease* in employment among those with a college degree. Here’s his graph: This caught…
…story is that Frankfurt School historian Martin Jay had an encounter with Lind and wrote about it in Salmagundi,”Dialectic of Counter-Enlightenment: The Frankfurt School as Scapegoat of the Lunatic Fringe.”…