December 2010
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Obama's post-election politics
President Obama’s post-election politics have always raised questions in my mind, as well as for many other people I know who are interested in politics and governance. What gives? Why not put your money where your mouth is? Especially after saying “discover great opportunity in the midst of great crisis” I have mulled this issue in my mind for a good year now and could not quite...
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Education and our future
I came across this article when reading the paper today: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/07/education/07education.html
A few spots in the article caught my eye:
“We have to see this as a wake-up call,” Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said in an interview on Monday.
“I know skeptics will want to argue with the results, but we consider them to be accurate and reliable, and we have to see them...