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• Death Panels for College Kids Update

  —Jay P. Greene's Blog

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  (Guest post by Greg Forster) In today’s Wall Street Journal, Arne Duncan points out that it makes no sense for government to run a giant subsidy program for student loans that allows bankers to capture taxpayer dollars as intermediaries between Uncle Sam and the kids. Obviously, the only sensible alternative is for [...]

  Posted: December 18, 2009, 9:51am EST
  by Greg Forster

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• Marcus: RttT Is No Kabuki

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  (Guest post by Greg Forster) In the past I’ve suggested, in response to Mike Petrilli’s cheerleading for it, that Race to the Top is just a bunch of kabuki. In today’s Washington Examiner, Marcus begs to differ: Race to the Top has emboldened reform-minded policymakers like Bloomberg to push hard for their ideas. [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 4:44pm EST
  by Greg Forster

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• Incentives and Motivation

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  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 [...]

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 3:59pm EST
  by Greg Forster

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• 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 [...]

  Posted: December 02, 2009, 10:53am EST
  by Greg Forster

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• 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 [...]

  Posted: November 25, 2009, 9:21am EST
  by Greg Forster

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• Destruction of a Profession in PJM

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  (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, [...]

  Posted: November 12, 2009, 11:58am EST
  by Greg Forster

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• 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 [...]

  Posted: November 11, 2009, 11:34am EST
  by Greg Forster

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• Pass the Clicker: The Future Lost?

  —Jay P. Greene's Blog

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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 [...]

  Posted: November 06, 2009, 3:27pm EST
  by Greg Forster

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