China is pursuing a strategy of gradually internationalizing its currency, the renminbi (people’s money) denominated in yuan (dollar), jiao (ten cents), and fen (cents)...
Despite all the qualifications, scores on standardized tests, like the PISA tests, are much more effective ways to compare student achievements in different countries than are average years of schooling and other measures of school years completed...
In short, there is no “them” who wrecked Greece, ruined California, subverted the climate change movement, sidetracked a half century of liberalism to come, or discredited mega-deficit spending...
When it comes to education, teacher unions—and their left-leaning allies—are never wrong, no, never, nevermore...In “bleak December,” I resolved to prove that dreary proposition wrong...
Kiron Skinner says leak sites springing up globally will stifle private diplomatic exchanges scholars rely on to make sense of the past and will transform the study of history...
...[I]f you say that given the facts of the case, the U.S. government has the right to invade Afghanistan and put innocent people at risk..., then it follows that the Venezuelan government has the right to attack the United States and put innocent Americans at risk...
In the comments on my post yesterday, Prakhar Goel, Patrick R. Sullivan, and Shayne Cook were critical of my views on U.S. foreign policy...So here's my question to them...
Where will Russia go in 2011? Under Putin and Medvedev, Russia is not a democracy but the Russian government is not heading back to Soviet-type totalitarianism...
Short video clips are a good way to get students interested in economics and help them understand the basics...Here are some new videos which I think would be useful in the classroom if placed in context and used to generate discussion...
