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The semester comes to a close - a teacher's reflection
on his first term back in the classroom. Yesterday was the last day of classes. We are on an A-day B-day schedule, with 4 90 minute periods a day. Students with a full load have 8 classes (I had 5 in high school). Next week, each day, there will be 2 two-hour exams, beginning Tuesday, running through Friday (assuming we are not closed for weather, which is actually possible for Friday). The la
Okay, I cannot resist Gail Collins today
Her column this morning is titled The $1 Trillion Question. She starts by telling us that she thinks we ought to develop a position on the Omnibus Spending Bill that just passed, And tells us That’s the appropriations thing Congress just passed. You missed it, right? You were focused on the football playoffs or the Oscar nominations. Speaking of the Oscars, did you notice that this year there wer
JAN 13
Krugman: Republicans are "Enemies of the Poor"
In his Monday column, Krugman tells us it is difficult for Republican with national ambitions are having a difficult time talking about the poor because of their well-earned reputation for reverse Robin-Hoodism, for being the party that takes from the poor and gives to the rich. And the reason that reputation is so hard to shake is that it’s justified. It’s not much of an exaggeration to say that
JAN 09
Nick Kristof offers Progress in the War on Poverty
in this NY Times column in which he lays out the successes of the effort over the past 50 years, with links galore to support his argument that it has been a success. As he notes: The most accurate measures, using Census Bureau figures that take account of benefits, suggest that poverty rates have fallen by more than one-third since 1968. There’s a consensus that without the war on poverty, other