Once we get past the glowing rhetoric, what is the president proposing? More spending! Only the words have changed — from "stimulus" to "jobs" and from "shovel-ready projects" to "jobs for construction workers"...
Almost nobody seems to be hoping that the government will leave the economy alone to recover on its own...[or] looking at the hard facts about what happens when the government leaves the economy alone, compared to what happens when politicians intervene...
It comes as no surprise that President Obama has proposed an education program that will increase expenditures on teachers and school construction. It is also no surprise that these expenditures will do little or anything to improve results...
In truth, the first ten years of the war on terror in eerie fashion resemble the first decade of the Cold War, with all the familiar actors making a return...
The use of student outcome measures for accountability is now firmly entrenched and is not about to go away. But a variety of complaints about the current testing system exist...
by Josef Joffevia Room for Debate (New York Times)
Monday, September 12, 2011
Culture doesn’t matter, Karl Marx orated; it is the “substructure,” the economy, that determines how society arranges its way of life. The tottering euro proves this great thinker wrong once more. It's the culture, stupid...
