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Paul Clement, In Appreciation

…autistic child and his parents in a case called Winkelman v. Parma City School District. The case presented the issue of whether the parents of a handicapped child could serve…

Howard Zinn…not in our high schools either

…United States,” published in 1980, Mr. Zinn said: “If you look through high school textbooks and elementary school textbooks in American history, you will find Jackson the frontiersman, soldier, democrat,…

Re-tooling the Medicare/medicaid model

…garner more support. I received another response from Jennifer Baron, a senior researcher at the Harvard Business School. She too has been working on this issue for a number of…

In Memoriam for Old Vet

…16 in Savannah Georgia. He was a military intelligence officer during the Vietnam war, earned an international degree at Georgia State University and studied at the London School of Economics….

Why does Santa hate poor kids?

…crazy asking the question that titles this diary. Because when you get back to school after Christmas vacation the first question you ask is “What did Santa bring you?” And…

Obama Leads with 71.4% of the Vote

…with voters: I went to vote this morning, arriving at the Caton School in Brooklyn at 5:55 a.m. I have been voting at that school’s gym since 1984, and have…

Information cascade and decision making structure

…swimming pool, a school breakfast program, cleanup of a local lake, that sort of stuff. In these groups, the final allocation of the money was very consistent from group to…