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America's Teacher (Naomi Klein interviews Michael Moore)
The point is that when you have capitalism, capitalism encourages you to think of ways to make money or to make more money. And the judges never could have gotten the kickbacks had the county not privatized the juvenile hall. But because there's been this
Obama the Impotent | The New America Foundation
With the US Senate bogged down in the fight over reforming health care, American leaders have said that the senators might not move on climate legislation until 2010, well after the global climate change conference in Copenhagen in December. That drew a s
Blogg-Ed Indetermination » Blog Archive » The Human Side of School Change: A Review
Evans had me from the Introduction, where he states: “…the futility of school change is legendary. Perhaps no American institution has been reformed more often, with less apparent effect, than the school.” Harsh words perhaps, but resonant in me.
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8 Questions About Health-Care Reform - washingtonpost.com
#1 If I don't have health insurance now, how will reform affect me? #2 If I currently have health insurance, how will reform affect me? #3 How much is reform likely to cost? #4 How much does the federal government now spend on health care? #5 What will ha
The Atlantic Online | September 2009 | How American Health Care Killed My Father | David Goldhill
[must read] what about us—the patients? How does a nation that might close down a business for a single illness from a suspicious hamburger tolerate the carnage inflicted by our hospitals? And not just those 100,000 deaths. In April, a Wall Street Journal
Atticus Finch and Southern liberalism : The New Yorker
Big Jim Folsom left office in 1959. The next year, a young Southern woman published a novel set in mid-century Alabama about one man’s proud and lonely stand for racial justice. The woman was Harper Lee and the novel was “To Kill a Mockingbird,” and one w
Opportunities for Creating the Future of Learning - 2020 Forecast: Creating the Future of Learning
The 2020 Forecast highlights the need for "schools" and centers of learning to be life-affirming organizations-for learners, their families, educators, and the broader community. Secondly, it emphasizes the need for learning to be an ongoing process where
Sen. Michael Bennet: "We're Falling Behind the Rest of the World.'' -- Politics Daily
the reason why quality of scale has eluded us is that we have all of these obstacles in the way of people being able to unleash their creative potential. ... We've been so prescriptive at every level ... from the federal government to the state government
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"Look, one of the problems is that we have is too many standards at every grade level and we're testing too many things. We're exhausting our teachers; we're exhausting our kids." For accountability purposes, I think what we need is to reduce the standards at every grade level substantially. We should benchmark those standards against international norms so we can stop kidding ourselves about whether we're actually being rigorous or not. And then we should design assessments that align with those standards.
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When you say what's surprising, it's that we don't yet have a politics that's informed by the kind of urgency that informs all kinds of other things, like whether or not the mayor of a city picked up the trash and whether or not he picked up the snow and whether or not we're filling our potholes. And we've got to get beyond a place where we expect failure from our school districts and into a place where what we're saying to ourselves is that it's not the fault of the bureaucrats or the fault of the unions or the fault of the families or the fault of the kids or any of that, and say instead that the greatest public good we have is our education system. We as communities need to own that and say, "How are these outcomes reflecting our values?" And if it's not terribly well, which is the case in a lot of places, then a question is, "What are we going to do to fix it?"
Forum Ideas — Big Think: Healthcare Revolution
Paul Nurse on genes and dx, Regina Herzlinger on chipping, Laurie Garrett on global health
HealthDataRights.org
# Have the right to our own health data\n# Have the right to know the source of each health data element\n# Have the right to take possession of a complete copy of our individual health data, without delay, at minimal or no cost
Ezra Klein - Health Reform for Beginners: The Suprisingly Important, Occasionally Controversial, Dartmouth Atlas Studies
On the strength of this data, members of the administration will tell you that the important comparison of health care reform is not between America and France, but Minnesota and Florida.
Health Care Costs: Am I missing something? Or is there a lot of flimflam going on? - O'Reilly Radar
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Ezra Klein - Health Care Reform in Danger
Health reform is, I think it fair to say, in danger right now. The news out of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee was bad. The Congressional Budget Office had scored a partial bill and the result was a total fiasco. But the news o
Rockefeller Consumers Health Care Act Bill Text (it's a PDF)
Ezra's summary: The public plan is given, for its first three years of existence, access to the provider networks used by Medicare, and for its first two years, access to the payment rates negotiated by Medicare.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klei
Ezra Klein - Health Insurance Exchanges: The Most Important, Undernoticed Part of Health Reform
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The Health Insurance Exchange gives you another option. Unlike your employer, it will have a wide array of competing providers offering different plans with varying benefit levels, emphases and price tags. Unlike the individual market, insurers won't be able to discriminate based on your health history or your future risk. Plans will have to be certified as meeting a minimum level of comprehensiveness. Plans that routinely screw over members will lose customers to competing insurers.
Liz Coleman's call to reinvent liberal arts education | Video on TED.com
"...we have professionalized liberal arts to the point where they no longer provide the breadth of application and the enhanced capacity for civic engagement that is their signature. Over the past century the expert has de-throned the educator-genera
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