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Amity Shlaes has 24 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful.
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With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when…
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In the end, all new schools, public or private, snobby or not, add value to the education market, making it bigger and…
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There's something unsettling about the education of a child who comfortably enumerates the rules for surviving zombie apocalypse but finds it uncomfortable…
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Disillusionment can come as fast as a gust, but building faith that the government won't inflate again is like building a new…
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Although unions may be good for a worker, singular, they are not always good for workers, plural. Especially when it comes to…
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Europe unified its monetary policy through the euro before it unified politically, therefore sustaining member countries' abilities to pursue the kind of…
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To investors, job creation is a second-order effect. Market participants care first about interest rates, exchange rates, bond prices and the one…
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In my view, if you have one in 10 unemployed - something is wrong with the economy whether you call it recession…
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A while ago I did a story comparing the change in employment rates in recessions in the U.S. and in Europe, and…
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Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy delude themselves and the citizens. Government budgets promote human…
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Anything can be done if you find friends to do it with. The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a sort of…
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Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand - a business as safe and…
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Polls are the corporate media's standardized tests to determine how well we have learned what it has taught us.
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My kids used to love math. Now it makes them cry. Thanks standardized testing and common core!
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Bureaucratic solutions to problems of practice will always fail because effective teaching is not routine, students are not passive, and questions of…
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I’ve been to Vulcan where I’ve been vulcanized, Carbon where you get carbonated and Standard where you get standardized. Ernie Isley’s invited…
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Liberals don't care. Their approach is to rip out society's foundations without asking if they serve any purpose. Why do we have…
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Today, in the age of standardized testing, thinking and acting, reason and judgment have been thrown out the window just as teachers…
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I am very attracted by bad taste-it is a lot more exciting than that supposed good taste which is nothing more than…
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