The story of Barack Obama last night was in the small states where hard work and organizing paid off. He’s building a new coalition, Hillary Clinton’s expanding the old base, and together, they’re making a new Democratic majority.
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EDUCATION OF A WORLD BANK CHIEF ECONOMIST.
The World Bank has named Justin Lin its new chief economist. Dani Rodrik thinks this an inspired choice, which is good enough for me. Lin’s wikipedia page says “he received a Master’s degree in Marxist political economy from Peking University in 1982, and a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago in 1986,” which […]
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THE WIRE SEASON 5 PREMIERE (AND HIGHER EDUCATION IN MARYLAND).
I’ve been only the most on-again-off-again of Wire viewers over the past several seaons. But this year, mostly in order to avoid spending every Sunday evening woefully bored and alone, I’m committing to HBO’s drama about inner city Baltimore. While last season’s meta plot focused on the city’s failing schools, a good chunk of this […]
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IMMIGRATION DISRUPTION.
Though I’m largely in the wait-and-see camp as to immigration’s potency in the 2008 elections, I think Matt’s underselling it as an issue here. One reason it’s not been particularly powerful in recent years is simply that very few politicians have been exploiting it. This was partially driven by a reticence among Republican Party operatives […]
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REPARATIONS ANXIETY.
Brown University announced that it will give a $10 million endowment to local public schools to atone for its involvement in the slave trade. But, Dana writes, reparations alone will not address the ongoing segregation of the American education system. Like so many painful issues of race and class, the argument over slavery reparations hovers […]
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EDWARDS IS GREAT ON EDUCATION.
I’m always impressed with John Edwards‘ discussions of education policy during these debates. He begins with the importance of early childhood interventions, he criticizes NCLB while holding out hope it can be reformed, and he highlights the privileges suburban schools enjoy that rural and inner city schools lack. He circles back to discuss free college […]
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ABSTINENCE-ONLY: NOPE, IT REALLY DOESN’T WORK.
About that abstinence-only sex education we’re spending $176 million on each year: It’s not working. Among teens ages 15 to 19 in the United States, the birth rate rose 3 percent in 2006, the first increase since 1991. Of course, everyone who studies this subject realizes that this is in large part due to the […]
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EDUCATING IMMIGRANTS.
Now on the fourth immigration question, accounting for all those posed so far. Guess the YouTube questioners are really, really concerned about the Mexicans. Now it’s on Huckabee allowing the children of undocumented immigrants to attend college at in-state tuition rates.”If I didn’t get an education, I might be picking lettuce,” said Huckabee. “We’re a […]
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Race, IQ, And Affirmative Action
Now this is sad. Andrew Sullivan tries to answer my post from the other day. There, I picked through Will Saletan’s data and asked, “So what’s the point of all this? What’re the implications? So far as I can tell, there are none. We don’t deal with people in aggregate groups. We deal with them […]
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Does Education Matter?
Given the nonexistent-to-moderate results for most education interventions, from charters to vouchers to merit pay to class size, I’ve occasionally wondered whether education policy and school quality really do achieve measurable results once demographic differences are sorted out. So this post by Kevin Carey, which breaks out city-level data from the National Assessment of Education […]
