Glenn Reynolds pointed to this Cartoon Version of Hayek’s Road to Serfdom.
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Glenn Reynolds pointed to this Cartoon Version of Hayek’s Road to Serfdom. My fave! A recent New York Times article, Under ‘No Child’ Law, Even Solid Schools Falter (10/12), brought to our attention the different standards the various states have adopted to gauge compliance. The focus of the article is California, which has chosen a small steps first, bigger steps later approach to meeting the goals [...] They’re doing good work on the education beat at the Portland Press Herald1. Now they’re onto the case of the 8th grade writing exam: More than three-quarters of Maine’s eighth-graders performed below standard on the state writing test for 2007-08, prompting education officials to toss the results and try to figure out why so many [...] Sunday’s Portland Press Herald featured an extensive investigation of the effects of a new teachers’ contract that was adopted in 2006. The contract allowed teachers to advance within the pay brackets through taking courses and through other activities, such as leading field trips, participating in extracurricular activities, and even for writing college recommendation letters for [...] |
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