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Our Greatest National Shame - Op-Ed Columnist Nicholas Kristof - NYTimes.com
I'm glad somebody realizes that we ignore education at our own peril.
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for those who oppose education spending in the stimulus, a question: Do you really believe that slashing half a million teaching jobs would be fine for the economy, for our children and for our future?
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One of last year’s smartest books was “The Race Between Education and Technology,” by Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz, both Harvard professors. They offer a wealth of evidence to argue that America became the world’s leading nation largely because of its emphasis on mass education at a time when other countries educated only elites (often, only male elites).
They show that America’s educational edge created prosperity and equality alike — but that this edge was eclipsed in about the 1970s, and since then one country after another has surpassed us in education.
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They Sure Showed That Obama - Columnist Frank Rich - NYTimes.com
I sure hope Rich is right.
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Just as in the presidential campaign, Obama has once again outwitted the punditocracy and the opposition.
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Because Republicans are isolated in that parallel universe and believe all the noise in its echo chamber, they are now as out of touch with reality as the “inevitable” Clinton campaign was before it got clobbered in Iowa. The G.O.P. doesn’t recognize that it emerged from the stimulus battle even worse off than when it started.
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