Recent News Links on Mobility and Transportation
The American Dream Coalition has convassed news outlets and found these news links on transportation policy and mobility:Taking the Driver Out of the Car– Randal O’Toole, Wall Street JournalCar...
View ArticleLos Angeles Unified to Restrict School Transfers and School Choice
Los Angeles will deny students transfers to other surrounding school districts like Culver City and Torrance so LAUSD can keep the per pupil funding.Culver City, Santa Monica-Malibu and Las Virgenes...
View ArticleReason Calls for GSE Privatization... in 2005
I was searching some of the Reason archieves this morning and came across this blog post from 2005: "Privatize Fannie and Freddie?" In the post my colleauge Len Gilroy cites an article from the now...
View ArticleMissing the Story
Has anyone checked the Internet connection at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute lately? Last week, the Institute announced the nominees for its “Top Ten Works of Journalism of...
View ArticleHealth Care 2020
March 23, 2020—At the beginning of the last decade, there was great excitement about the future of medicine. Advances in biotechnology, nanotechnology, diagnostics, information technology, stem cell...
View ArticleHousing and Land Use News Article Links
The American Dream Coalition will be holding its annual conference on free-market approaches to transportation, land use, and urban development in Orlando, Florida on Jun 10-12, 2010. Check out the...
View ArticleAnother Senseless Drug War Death
The Jonathan Ayers story was already outrageous enough. Last September, Ayers, a 28-year-old Baptist pastor from Lavonia, Georgia, was gunned down by a North Georgia narcotics task force in the parking...
View ArticleDont Fear the E-Reader
When online super-retailer Amazon.com first released its Kindle e-reader in the fall of 2007, David Pogue, the influential New York Times tech columnist, exclaimed that the gadget’s “instant wireless...
View ArticleThe Politics of High Speed Rail Policymaking....
Florida received $1.25 billion of the federal government's $8 billion allocation to high-speed rail projects. It would be hard to find a state rail plan that flies in the face of Obama's commitment to...
View ArticleHigh-Speed Rail Meets Alice in Wonderland
In a scene fitting for a Lewis Carroll novel--perhaps this is nonsense business management rather than nonsense literature, Amtrak is reorganizing itself so that it can compete for high-speed rail...
View ArticleU.S Education Secretary Arne Duncan Won't Support School Choice for Poor D.C....
US Education Secretary Arne Duncan has been unwilling to support the DC Opportunity Scholarship program that allows disadvantaged students to attend higher-quality DC private schools and even rescinded...
View ArticleNew Jersey Gov. Christie: Skip Raises to Avoid Teacher Layoffs
Teacher layoffs create more public sympathy for increasing education funding than wage freezes. However, school districts could freeze wages and have employees contribute to health benefits rather than...
View ArticleGreen Dot Acts Responsibly to Close Under-performing Charter School
Green Dot has taken heavy criticism for its plan to close an under-performing and under-enrolled charter school next year. Yet, shouldn't school districts act like Green Dot and actively manage schools...
View ArticleA Growing Concern: Bank Taxers Without Borders
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced last month that he will propose a "global bank tax" at the G20 meeting in June. It is still unclear what kind of tax this will be, but in any event we can...
View ArticleNexGen Air Traffic Contol, Will we Ever Move Forward?
Interesting that this article appeared in NextGov describing the FAA hearings. “Federal Aviation Administration officials faced tough questions from lawmakers on Thursday when they asked for a steep...
View ArticleBrowns Bank Tax Would Lead to Further Moral Hazard
In his Financial Times column, the British economist John Kay, warns against the “global bank tax” recently announced by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. If this tax is passed as some kind of...
View ArticleDon't Buy It
A few weeks before Congress passed a law that orders every American to buy health insurance, the Virginia legislature passed a law that says "no resident of this Commonwealth…shall be required to...
View ArticleCalifornia Needs Quality-Based Teacher Layoffs
In the Los Angeles Times, Timothy Daly and Arun Ramanathan make the case for quality-based layoffs:Unfortunately, the only tool that California schools can use to make these decisions is a calendar....
View ArticleFederal Education Spending Increased 72 Percent; National Reading Scores...
As Education Week reports on the nation's report card in reading released today:Reading scores stayed flat for 4th graders and rose only slightly for 8th graders on the most recent National Assessment...
View ArticleOklahoma Universal Preschool Fail: 2009 NAEP Reading Edition
Oklahoma has the highest quality universal preschool system in the nation. Yet, the NAEP State Profile of Oklahoma shows once again that the state's huge investment in universal preschool is not...
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