SUPPORT THE IMAGINARY TROOPS. I’ve been struggling to articulate what most unnerves me about the Kerry flap for a couple of days, trying to figure out how to say this without it being ripped out of context mere microseconds after posting. Not easy. But let’s start with the education issue: There are a lot of […]
Education in America
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Support The Imaginary Troops
I’ve been struggling to articulate what most unnerves me about the Kerry flap for a couple of days, trying to figure out how to say this without it being ripped out of context mere microseconds after posting. Not easy. But let’s start with the education issue: There are a I’ve been struggling to articulate what […]
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Experiments In Sexism
By Neil the Ethical Werewolf Says Kevin Drum, on single-sex public high schools: As with so many issues in education, my first reaction is thatexperimentation is a good thing. Give it a try and see how it works. Ifit turns out as badly as Brad suggests, we can always kill it later. I’m concerned that […]
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GENDER SEGREGATION AND…
GENDER SEGREGATION AND SEXISM. Becks of Unfogged is appalled that the ACLU and a feminist group are threatening to sue over a federal decision to permit more single-sex public education. I think the issue is a little more complex, however. I do agree with Becks that the equation of gender and racial segregation by Nancy […]
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Education Markets
I’m always impressed by the faith libertarians, and some contrarian liberals, put into education markets. They speak of them in the rapturous tones of Bill Kriston contemplating slaughter, or me talking universal health care. But none of the evidence I’ve seen on charter school outcomes has been very convincing. My understanding is that while they’ve […]
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WHY EDUCATION IS…
WHY EDUCATION IS GOOD FOR THE LADIES. Forbes.com executive editor Michael Noer‘s execrable and poorly reported “article,” “Don’t Marry Career Women,” has been given the thorough mocking it deserves by now, making his name and his site the laughing stock they deserve to be for years to come. Those who are yearning for some real […]
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BUSH V. GORE.
BUSH V. GORE. Great presidents educate the public, and what’s most distressing about the Bush era is that the president has so horribly mis-educated the public on the two biggest public policy decisions of his presidency: taxes and Iraq. On the first count we were told by Bush during the 2000 campaign and many times […]
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Loss Prevention
Last week, it was hard to ignore the headlines trumpeting the news of Merck & Co.’s cervical cancer vaccine: “World’s First Cervical Cancer Vaccine to Go On Sale in Weeks;” “Men Should Get Cervical Vaccine Too;” “Doctors Say HPV Vaccine Should be Given to Everyone.” The hullabaloo began in June when the FDA approved Gardasil, […]
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THE OP-ED DOJO.
THE OP-ED DOJO. Wandering through the nation’s op-ed pages is like ambling through a dojo. Each writer has his own particular style, technique, finishing move. There’s Tom Friedman, who rushes in with the Implausible Conversational Anecdote, links it to an Off-Topic Invocation Of World Travels, and finishes you with a Confusing Metaphor From Above. Or […]
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Stagnation Celebration
Even the most casual consumer of elite American commentary knows about the looming demographic crisis. The drumbeat of warnings that the United States and (more acutely) Europe face some sort of catastrophe due to stagnating or even declining populations has been steady and loud for years. Here in the United States, the defeat of the […]
