When I first heard the term supply-side economics, I assumed that what was to be supplied as the engine of economic health was great education. Silly me not to know that what my interlocutor was talking about so enthusiastically was minimum taxation and maximum deregulation. He was very vague about what was actually to be [...]
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Letter to the Editor
March 29th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Tags:David Brooks·Educational reform·Improving schools.·The New York Times
The Key to Economic Recovery: Education
March 29th, 2009 · No Comments · Teaching, Uncategorized
“We can no longer afford to accept a culture in which a kid one day out of law school makes more that the person who taught him how to read – anymore than we can accept a culture in which a mediocre teacher gets re-hired year after year.
Tags:David Leonhardt.Education reform·economic recovery·The New York Times