Archive for 'What Works'
Some Good News For A Change
I was going to dedicate today’s post to this blatant attempt by Tennessee House Replicants to open the door to the state’s university system to an even greater level of cronyism and corruption than we currently enjoy [please do call your representatives on this one], but then I came across this really good idea being [...]
Posted: February 9th, 2010 under Education Policy, Schools, What Works.
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Kicking Galt in the Nads
Thorstein Veblen offers us a reasoned argument for taxing the shit out of the small number of individuals making more than $1 million a year.
Greg Mankiw links a former student courageously trying to protect the rights of Millionares not to pay more taxes here.
Here’s the thing — there are no reputable studies on the [...]
Posted: December 27th, 2009 under Politics, The Dismal Science, What Works.
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What Works: Finland & Primary Education
In response to Lykins laying down the smack, I’ve started a weekly segment called What Works. This second installment begins to pull back the layers of the Finnish model I discussed last week by examining Finland’s commitment to basic education.
Prior to the 2000’s, Finland’s education system had been considered average by Western, post-industrial standards. In [...]
Posted: July 26th, 2009 under What Works.
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What Works: Part One
Lykins set me straight in comments yesterday by asking the simplest of questions:
Is there another education model that is out there now that we can advocate or is this going to take an enormous redirection of the national discussion into places unknown?
Since my dissertation took up this question, it is only appropriate that I begin [...]
Posted: July 20th, 2009 under Education Policy, What Works.
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