Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 6, 2017

Rethinking the Benefits of Youth Employment Programs: The Heterogeneous Effects of Summer Jobs

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Rethinking the Benefits of Youth Employment Programs: The Heterogeneous Effects of Summer Jobs Jonathan Davis & Sara Heller NBER Working...
Saturday, June 3, 2017

Children of low-income parents are much less likely to become inventors than their higher-income counterparts

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The Lifecycle of Inventors, by Alex Bell et al. Harvard Working Paper, June 2016 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/p apers.cfm?abstract_id=283801...
Thursday, July 18, 2013

Conspiracy Theories Permeate Pakistani Society

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Pakistan Taliban Lambastes Schoolgirl for U.N. Speech. By Saeed Shah Anti-Western View Shown in Verbal Attack Permeates Pakistani Society ...
Saturday, January 5, 2013

We, Too, Are Violent Animals. By Jane Goodall, Richard Wrangham, and Dale Peterson

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We, Too, Are Violent Animals. By Jane Goodall, Richard Wrangham, and Dale Peterson Those who doubt that human aggression is an evolved trai...
Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Quality of Government and Living Standards: Adjusting for the Efficiency of Public Spending

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Quality of Government and Living Standards: Adjusting for the Efficiency of Public Spending. By Grigoli, Francesco; Ley, Eduardo IMF Workin...
Monday, July 25, 2011

Bill Gates: "We haven't chosen to get behind [vouchers] in a big way [...] because the negativity about them is very, very high"

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Was the $5 Billion Worth It? By Jason Riley A decade into his record-breaking education philanthropy, Bill Gates talks teachers, charters—a...
Friday, June 18, 2010

The Trouble With Teacher Tenure - We can't make progress if bad teachers have jobs for life

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The Trouble With Teacher Tenure . By TIMOTHY KNOWLES We can't make progress if bad teachers have jobs for life. WSJ, Jun 18, 2010 Col...
Monday, February 1, 2010

Study finds focus on abstinence in sex-ed classes can delay sexual activity

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Study finds focus on abstinence in sex-ed classes can delay sexual activity By Rob Stein Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, February 1,...
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Head Start: A Tragic Waste of Money

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Head Start: A Tragic Waste of Money . By Andrew J. Coulson This article appeared in the New York Post on January 28, 2010. H...
Sunday, August 2, 2009

Charter schools, The Ujima Village Academy, teachers' unions

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Pay Your Teachers Well . WSJ Editorial Their children’s hell will slowly go by. The Wall Street Journal, p A10, Aug 03, 2009 The conflicting...
Thursday, June 25, 2009

Tax Credits, Not Vouchers, Are Keeping School Choice a Viable Option

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Tax Credits, Not Vouchers, Are Keeping School Choice a Viable Option . By Adam B. Schaeffer Culpeper Star-Exponent on June 25, 2009. Many sc...
Sunday, June 21, 2009

Our revolutionary leaders wanted the best from their children

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Founding Fathers . By Barbara Dafoe Whitehead Our revolutionary leaders wanted the best from their children. The Wall Street Journal, June 2...
Friday, June 19, 2009

WSJ Editorial Page: The NEA's Latest Trick

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The NEA's Latest Trick . WSJ Editorial Trying to deny military families. The Wall Street Journal, Jun 19, 2009, p A14 Public school teac...
Monday, June 1, 2009

D.C. Should Create Its Own School Voucher Program

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D.C. Should Create Its Own School Voucher Program . By Andrew J. Coulson This article appeared in the DC Examiner on May 29, 2009. Thousands...
Sunday, May 31, 2009

Money and the Schools

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Money and the Schools . WSJ Editorial More isn't better. WSJ, May 30, 2009 Brace yourself, because there's good news on education --...

A New York putsch could one day hurt D.C. schoolchildren

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Textbook for Failure . WaPo Editorial A New York putsch could one day hurt D.C. schoolchildren. WaPo, Sunday, May 31, 2009 WHETHER NEW York ...
Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Putin vs. the Truth

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Putin vs. the Truth . By Orlando Figes The New York Review of Books, Volume 56, Number 7 · April 30, 2009 Review of: Inside the Stalin Archi...
Sunday, April 19, 2009

Members of Congress value school choice -- for themselves

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Only for the Privileged Few? WaPo Editorial Members of Congress value school choice -- for themselves. Monday, April 20, 2009 A NEW SURVEY ...
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Libertarian: Federal President's Preschool Emphasis Is Misdirected

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President's Preschool Emphasis Is Misdirected . By Andrew J. Coulson This article appeared on cato.org on April 13, 2009 "When it c...
Saturday, April 11, 2009

Politics is driving the destruction of the District's school voucher program

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Presumed Dead . WaPo Editorial Politics is driving the destruction of the District's school voucher program. WaPo, Saturday, April 11, 2...