3 rules for doing educational equity right (Michael J. Petrilli)

As regular readers know, I spent much of the past two years co-leading the Building Bridges Initiative, which sought to bring education reformers from left, right, and center together (again). One of the most useful moments in our deliberations came when one participant introduced the notion of a “suitcase word.” Like a suitcase, such words may …

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Doing educational equity right: School finance (Michael J. Petrilli)

Last week, I identified three rules for “doing educational equity right”: These rules will not only result in smart policy designs, but also make it likelier that the political right will get on board the equity train. Now let’s apply those rules to the topic of school finance. In some ways, this is the easiest issue around which …

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How Malthus Got It Wrong (David R. Henderson)

Something that seems obvious if you think about it for a minute is that a growing population pushing on a finite planet means that resources will become pricier and people will become, on average, poorer. In 2019, Bill Maher, for example, who most people, including me, think is a smart person, stated, “In 1900, there …

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A Framework for Geoeconomics (Christopher Clayton, Matteo Maggiori, and Jesse Schreger)

Governments use their countries’ economic strength from existing financial and traderelationships to achieve geopolitical and economic goals. We refer to this practice asgeoeconomics. We build a framework based on three core ingredients: limited contractenforceability, input-output linkages, and externalities. Geoeconomic power arises fromthe ability to jointly exercise threats across separate economic activities. A hegemon,like the United …

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Coleman Hughes FINALLY Reveals His HONEST Thoughts on Racism and Reparations (Smart People Podcast)

This podcast is about progress made in slavery, especially the conversation focussed on the seemingly progressing improvements and perceptions about improvements on the ground. The fact is while there is a general progress with the time, individuals’ perception is a function of observations they experience. These experiences are pointers to what racism looks like. Watch …

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