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  • It’s the End of the Aughts as we know it…and I feel fine

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    (Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) So this decade is almost over, at least as such things are normally reckoned. Does anyone care? I feel profoundly indifferent about the aughts. In terms of politics, all of the same problems that we faced at the start of the decade (out of control health care [...]
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    Posted: December 10, 2009, 1:09pm EST
    by matthewladner

  • Incentives and Motivation

    Surely we can find a happy medium? (Guest post by Greg Forster) I’ve just read a fascinating article – Frederick Herzberg’s “One More Time: How Do You Motivate Employees?” from the Harvard Business Review. The 1987 version, an update of the original 1968 article of the same title, went on to become [...]
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    Posted: December 09, 2009, 3:59pm EST
    by Greg Forster

  • Much Ado About Nothing

    Education Week has an article suggesting that Education Sector’s recently released report on Charter Management Organizations may have been massaged to please big donors.  The author of the original draft of the report, Tom Toch, had his name removed, so the report was released without an author.  It’s unclear whether Tom was [...]
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    Posted: December 08, 2009, 4:36pm EST
    by Jay P. Greene

  • Arizona Zombie Association Objects to NEA Comparison

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    (Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) I received the following email yesterday from the Arizona Zombie Association (AZA) objecting to being compared to the Arizona Education Association (AEA). The email read: Dr. Ladner, I serve as President of the Arizona chapter of the American Zombie Association.  I want to let you know that the [...]
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    Posted: December 06, 2009, 1:02pm EST
    by matthewladner

  • Arizona Legislature Single Taps Union Zombie

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    (Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) The movie Zombieland delivers a humorous take the zombie movie genre. The protaganist is a person who has survived the outbreak of zombe-ism by following a set of self-developed rules. “Cardio” is rule number one (i.e. stay in shape so you can out run the zombies [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2009, 10:20am EST
    by matthewladner

  • Blog Envy

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    I’m suffering from blog envy.  Other blogs have had some great posts — much better than what I’ve come up with recently.  If I can’t beat them I might as well link to them and poach their material. First, Brian Kisida has a superb post at Mid-Riffs on the predictable waste and banality [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2009, 6:07am EST
    by Jay P. Greene

  • Marcus on Tenure & Test Scores

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    HT Education Week (Guest post by Greg Forster) On NRO today, Marcus soldiers on through the endless New York test score tenure wars, reporting on a gutsball move by Mayor Bloomberg: New York’s state legislature gave teachers a gift last year by banning the use of student test-score data in tenure decisions. Many [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2009, 10:53am EST
    by Greg Forster

  • Coulson Schools LA Times on Charters

    Andrew Coulson teaches the LA Times a thing or two about charter schools in his post on the Cato blog.  Here’s the meat of it: Yesterday’s LA Times editorial on charter schools combined errors of fact and omission with a misrepresentation of the economic research on public school spending. First, the Times claims that KIPP charter public schools spend [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2009, 7:44am EST
    by Jay P. Greene

  • Mid-Riffs on Arkansas Charters

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    Brian Kisida and Josh McGee, who blog at Mid-Riffs, had an op-ed in the Sunday Arkansas Democrat Gazette on the State Board of Education’s rejection of all six new charter applications.  Here is the money quote: The Board often cited the same tired reason for denying charter applicants: The proposed charter [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2009, 10:23am EST
    by Jay P. Greene

  • School Choice Reduces Crime, Increases College-Attendance, and Makes Your Breath Smell Better

    Well, at least the first two claims are supported by rigorous new research based on school choice lotteries in Charlotte, North Carolina. Harvard researcher, David Deming, looked at a public school choice program that allows families to rank order their preferred schools and then admits students by a weighted lottery formula.  [...]
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    Posted: November 29, 2009, 10:45am EST
    by Jay P. Greene

  • Ed Schools Take the FCAT

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    (Guest post by Greg Forster) Good gravy! Never mind the debate on using test scores to evaluate teachers. Florida is actually using test scores to evaluate teacher colleges: It determined what percentage of graduates from each program had 50 percent or more of their students make a year’s worth of progress [on [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 9:21am EST
    by Greg Forster

  • Gloomy Required Reading

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    As I reviewed my 9th grader’s required reading list for English class I saw good and bad news.  The good news is he is reading some excellent literature, including Romeo and Juliet, Of Mice and Men, Night and To Kill a Mockingbird.  The bad news is that these works are [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 9:02am EST
    by Jay P. Greene

  • The Case for Israel

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    We had a screening of the film, The Case for Israel: Democracy’s Outpost, Saturday night in the newly constructed Temple Shalom in Fayetteville, AR with comments from the producer, Gloria Greensfield.  It was a huge success. There were nearly a hundred people there of whom about a third were from pro-Israel [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 9:12am EST
    by Jay P. Greene

  • States to Protect Health Care Freedom?

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    (Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) George Will wrote a column today about an effort to protect Arizonans from being forced to buy health insurance or to ban the right to privately purchase medical care by Obamacare. If Obamacare passes, the people of Arizona may give it the proverbial single finger salute. Other states may [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 7:32pm EST
    by matthewladner

  • Reading Osama bin Laden his Miranda Rights

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    (Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) Oh.My.God.Becky! Senator Lindsey Graham demolishes Eric Holder.  Pop some popcorn and check it out here. [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 9:20pm EST
    by matthewladner

  • Can’t Think of A Blog Post

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    I apologize for my lack of a post yesterday and this lame post today.  I just can’t seem to think of a good post. Yesterday Greg suggested that I blog about this excellent editorial in the Wall Street Journal denouncing the Ford Foundation for giving $100 million to the teachers union [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 5:45pm EST
    by Jay P. Greene

  • Senator Meeks vs. CTU

    (Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) “Chicago Public Schools have a gang problem. The gang, however, is not the BDs (Black Disciples), the gang is not the GDs (Gangster Disciples), the gang is not the Vice Lords and the gang is not the Four Corner Hustlers. The gang is the Chicago Teachers [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 4:34pm EST
    by matthewladner

  • Stop the National Standards Train

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    As I’ve said before (here, here, and elsewhere), I can’t understand the enthusiasm of education reformers for national standards and testing.  Advocates for the status quo and/or pure nonsense are much better positioned to control the process of national standard-setting and test-writing than are advocates for meaningful reform grounded in evidence-based approaches. In case you [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 8:49am EST
    by Jay P. Greene

  • Disruptive Technology in Treating Autism

    (Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) Check it out: cool stuff! Affordable online tools to allow parents to do therapies for autistic children from a company called Rethink Autism on the national ABC News broadcast. The whole “isn’t this like getting a manual on how to take your appendix out” stuff is just hilarious. If [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 4:10pm EST
    by matthewladner

  • Destruction of a Profession in PJM

    (Guest post by Greg Forster) This morning, Pajamas Media carries my column on Public Agenda’s study documenting the destruction of a profession: As D-Day for health care “reform” approaches, we’re hearing a lot of contradictory claims about how things are going in countries where they have socialized medicine. One side says Canadian, [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 11:58am EST
    by Greg Forster

  • Civic Knowledge Polling Controversy

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     (Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) Last summer, I wrote a study for the Goldwater Institute reporting the results of a survey in which we gave 10 questions from the United States citizenship exam to Arizona high school students. The results were terrible, with only about 3.5% of the district students scoring [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 2:24am EST
    by matthewladner

  • True to Her Traditions

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    (Guest post by Greg Forster) The monument pictured above is quite large and centrally located on the Yale campus. When you walk into a nearby building, you enter a small atrium of solid marble walls, covered from floor to ceiling with the inscribed names of Yale alumni who have died in [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 11:34am EST
    by Greg Forster

  • Phony Conflict

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    I don’t understand why enthusiasts of curricular or pedagogical reforms feel the need to pick fights with choice supporters.  Are they so starved for attention that they need to create a phony conflict about whether focusing on choice or curriculum is a more effective strategy for school improvement? I say that this [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 11:36am EST
    by Jay P. Greene

  • Pass the Clicker: The Future Lost?

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    ABC headquarters the day after Lost goes off the air (Guest post by Greg Forster) With Lost coming up on its last season, ABC has been scrambling for a new cash cow. It bet heavily on Flash Forward, a new drama with acting talent coming out of its ears and a premise [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 3:27pm EST
    by Greg Forster

  • Klein vs. Rothstein

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    (Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) I was struck by Joel Klein’s statement in introducing the latest McKinsey & Company report on the impact of achievement gaps. Klein stated: People have said to me ‘Chancellor, we will never fix education in America until we fix poverty in America.’ Now I care about fixing poverty, [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 11:27am EST
    by matthewladner

  • The Destruction of a Profession

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    Public Agenda’s portrait of the teaching profession (Guest post by Greg Forster) How would you feel if you found out, the moment you were going into surgery, that 40% of surgeons were “disheartened” about their own work? How would you feel about it if you had no right to choose your own surgeon? That’s [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 10:40am EST
    by Greg Forster

  • Everyone Wins in the Wall Street Journal

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    (Guest post by Greg Forster) Today’s Journal has a hard-hitting editorial on Marcus’s new study showing that competition from charters improves regular public schools in NYC. Opponents of school choice are running out of excuses as evidence continues to roll in about the positive impact of charter schools…State and local policy makers [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 9:23am EST
    by Greg Forster

  • CBS v. CDC on Swine Flu

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    (Guest post by Greg Forster) Now, I know CBS News is a disreputable tabloid organization – not a highly reliable source of information, like, say, the National Enquirer. But here at JPGB we’ve always said that empirial research should be judged on its own merits, not on the identity of the [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 9:53am EST
    by Greg Forster

  • California vs. Texas Part Deux

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    (Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) William Voegeli joins the fun in City Journal. Money quote: Bill Watkins, executive director of the Economic Forecast Project at the University of California at Santa Barbara, has calculated that once you adjust for population growth and inflation, the state government spent 26 percent more in 2007–08 than in 1997–98. [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 5:54pm EST
    by matthewladner

  • Is Percentage-Based Compensation Unethical?

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    Teacher unions aren’t the only ones who have a problem with linking compensation to performance.  The Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP), the interest group representing the people who raise money for non-profit organizations, has declared that it is unethical.  As the AFP’s standards of ethics puts it: “Members shall not accept [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 10:11am EST
    by Jay P. Greene

  • Debrilla M. Ratchford — Winner of the Al Copeland Humanitarian Award

    We had several excellent nominees this year for the Al Copeland Humanitarian Award.  Each one of them has made a significant contribution to improving the human condition.  Steve Henson gave us ranch dressing,  Fasi Zaka ridiculed the Taliban,  Ralp Teetor invented cruise control, and Mary Quant popularized the miniskirt.  But this year’s winner is Debrilla M. Ratchford, the [...]
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    Posted: October 30, 2009, 8:01am EDT
    by Jay P. Greene

  • Public Education and its Enemies

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    (Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) In the final scene of Shakespeare’s Henry V, the French sue for peace after Henry’s triumph at Agincourt. While the French king is away negotiating the final terms, Henry uses the opportunity to woo the King’s daughter Katherine to become his Queen. Katherine is cool to this [...]
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    Posted: October 29, 2009, 12:52pm EDT
    by matthewladner

  • Marcus Wins! Big Deal, So Does Everybody.

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    NOT the cover of Marcus’s new study (Guest post by Greg Forster) Well, I made no secret of who I thought was the winner in the Marcus/Murray deathmatch over college education. But it turns out it’s no big deal, because Marcus says “Everyone Wins!” In his new study of that title, I mean. Marcus [...]
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    Posted: October 28, 2009, 4:00pm EDT
    by Greg Forster

  • Swine Flu Socialism

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    Courtesy of the World Health Organization (Guest post by Greg Forster) Further to Jay’s post below on how the supposed swine flu “pandemic” is sounding a lot like the ad for Old Glory Robot Insurance: Michael Fumento, who has made a career out of calling BS on the political abuse of medicine, reports on just [...]
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    Posted: October 28, 2009, 10:09am EDT
    by Greg Forster

  • Why Did They Make the Roadbloacks?

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      President Obama’s declaration of a national emergency regarding swine (H1N1) flu reminds me of the Saturday Night Live fake ad for robot insurance.  Obama’s declaration was described by the AP as having “the goal … to remove bureaucratic roadblocks and make it easier for sick people to seek treatment and medical [...]
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    Posted: October 27, 2009, 11:10am EDT
    by Jay P. Greene

  • No Instant Replay

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    It’s a bad call.  No doubt about it.   Of course, I mean introducing instant replay into baseball as well as the call in the Angels-Yankees game.  Yes, the ump should have called both Yankee players out rather than just one because neither had a foot on the bag when tagged.  But to introduce [...]
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    Posted: October 26, 2009, 7:47am EDT
    by Jay P. Greene

  • Rhode Island Eliminates Tenure

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    (Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) Check it out on this video. The unions are going ape- no one consulted them! They are going to sue! (HT Whitney Tilson) First Michelle Rhee lets RIFs teachers without regards to tenure, and now her former protege strikes a blow against the indefensible practice in Rhode Island. You [...]
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    Posted: October 25, 2009, 9:43pm EDT
    by matthewladner

  • Winters v. Murray Deathmatch on College

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    (Guest post by Greg Forster) Today on NRO Marcus Winters throws down the gauntlet before Charles Murray and others who have made the increasingly common argument that too many kids go to college these days. As the economy requires workers to have more and more knowledge for good jobs, more kids [...]
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    Posted: October 22, 2009, 4:08pm EDT
    by Greg Forster

  • It Takes a Union of Millions to Keep Poor Kids Down

    (Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) I double dare Congressional opponents of the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program to watch this video to the end. The aspirational ideals of the Democratic party, or for that matter any decent person, simply cannot be reconciled with the filthy reality of repealing the program. [...]
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    Posted: October 22, 2009, 1:29pm EDT
    by matthewladner

  • Submit Your Nominations by Halloween!

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    (Guest post by Greg Forster) For those of you who have been following the announcements over the past week of this year’s nominees for the Al Copeland Humanitarian of the Year Award – we want to hear from you! Whom would you nominate to recieve “the Al” – what person has made [...]
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    Posted: October 22, 2009, 12:55pm EDT
    by Greg Forster

  • The John Stuart Mills approach to Health Care Reform

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    (Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) JSM once noted that if government would simply require an education, that it might save itself the trouble of providing one. He could have added trying to provide one at enormous cost, but let’s not quibble over details. This was the approach to the Romney reform in [...]
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    Posted: October 21, 2009, 7:48pm EDT
    by matthewladner

  • Getting Less for Less

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    Hawaii decided to fix their budget shortfall by eliminating 17 days from this school year in exchange for an 8 percent reduction in teacher salaries.  That means Hawaii public school kids will spend 163 days in school compared to about 180 for most kids nationwide. Eighty-one percent of all teachers approved [...]
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    Posted: October 20, 2009, 9:23pm EDT
    by Jay P. Greene

  • Mary Quant — Nominee for the Al Copeland Humanitarian of the Year Award

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    There is a common theme in who has been selected to be nominated for the Al Copeland Humanitarian of the Year Award.  For the most part, the nominees have, like Al Copeland, done something to improve the human condition by improving our material pleasure.  Steven Henson gave us delicious ranch dressing.  [...]
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    Posted: October 19, 2009, 1:33pm EDT
    by Jay P. Greene

  • William Higinbotham – NOT Nominated for Al Copeland Humanitarian

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    (Guest post by Greg Forster) In our ongoing process of gathering nominees for the Al Copeland Humanitarian of the Year award, last week Jay nominated Fasi Zaka on grounds that ridicule of dictators (actual or aspiring) is an important part of mankind’s struggle for freedom. Well, another important part of the struggle [...]
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    Posted: October 19, 2009, 12:27pm EDT
    by Greg Forster

  • Pass the Popcorn: Anvil and Zombieland

      (Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) I’ve been knocked down by the flu this week, but last week I spent time in Austin Texas visiting my sister and attending some sort of odd male fertility ritual called a “bachelor party” or something like that. I think I may have attended a few more [...]
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    Posted: October 16, 2009, 7:40am EDT
    by matthewladner

  • The Unions Have Lost Nick Kristoff

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    (Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) Read it and weep K-12 reactionaries. P.S. Somewhere, John Rawls is smiling. [...]
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    Posted: October 15, 2009, 10:30am EDT
    by matthewladner

  • Ralph Teetor for Al Copeland Humanitarian of the Year

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    (Guest post by Greg Forster) After careful consideration of various possibilities, including: Richard Belanger, inventor of the sippy cup Reiner Knizia, inventor of numerous board games Edward Lloyd, inventor of modern business insurance Gene Roddenberry, creator of Star Trek Charles V, preventor of the Ottoman conquest of Europe Jay P. Greene, inventor of the Al Copeland Humanitarian [...]
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    Posted: October 15, 2009, 10:29am EDT
    by Greg Forster

  • Bean-counting Arizona Tax Credits

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    (Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) The Arizona Republic ran a complex story with an unfortunately simplistic headline: Tuition tax credits drain state money. The reporter made a serious effort to bean-count the individual and corporate tax credit programs. The headline is all the more unfortunate given the fact that by the Republic’s [...]
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    Posted: October 15, 2009, 10:01am EDT
    by matthewladner

  • Nominee for the Al Copeland Humanitarian of the Year Award — Fasi Zaka

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    After triumphing over Nazism and Communism in the 20th century, liberty faces a new threat in this century — radical Islam.  This threat is being counteracted (we hope) by diplomacy with potential allies, force against enemies, and high-minded speeches to remind all that the cause of liberty is right and the cause [...]
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    Posted: October 14, 2009, 10:20am EDT
    by Jay P. Greene

  • Debrilla M. Ratchford for Al Copeland Humanitarian of the Year

    Number of comments: 7
    (Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) Debrilla M. Ratchford, an airline stewardess, received U.S. Patent #4, 094, 391 for her invention of a suitcase with wheels and transporting hook in 1978. Ratchford must surely stand as the most underrated inventor of the late 20th Century. Some JPGB readers must be old enough to remember the [...]
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    Posted: October 14, 2009, 8:56am EDT
    by matthewladner
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