In a recent review of the new book by former World Bank economist Joseph Stiglitz entitled The Great Divide, reviewer Brian Wesbury writes this: ” A running theme of the book is that the American dream is dead because policy makers have failed to implement truly liberal policies. But for the past 50 years, liberals […]
Archives for May 2015
A Bad Report Card for American Millennials
The Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), a project of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), in March released a report produced by the Educational Testing Service on the assessment of educational competency of the age group known as the “millennials”, those young adults born after 1980 who were 16-34 […]
Houston, We Have a Problem
It’s an election year in Houston and this year that means a race for Mayor, as incumbent Annise Parker is term-limited. There are quite a few announced candidates already and supposedly more to come, so it will be a crowded race. And it is easy and trite in all elections–national, state, and local–to say that […]
The Forbes Education Challenge
In a very interesting and ambitious project, last year Forbes magazine challenged experts in business and education philanthropy to single out five big ideas over the next 20 years that could make American students the most highly achieving in the world and had research and modeling specialists with no stake in the outcome analyze the […]