Health care and education
On May 19th, Congressional Budget Office Director Peter Orszag was on the Diane Rehm show. Several times that hour, Orszag talked about health care costs, and I had a few thoughts while listening: This guy is smart. I don’t know if my oldest brother agrees with him about health care policy, but there’s a frood […]
TimePal…
I am now accepting all donations of hours, days, and weeks. I’m afraid I can no longer accept donations of minutes because of the declining exchange rate between EDT and Work Completed. All odd minutes are good for is writing short blog entries. And I would have created a clever “TimePal” icon as a PayPal […]
A boycott call by another name smells as daft…
British academics are at it again, and Chris Goff is right: the call for faculty “to consider the moral and political implications of educational links with Israeli institutions” is a back-door way to call for a boycott without calling for a boycott. The University and College Union has never asked its faculty to “consider the […]
Joel Packer’s blog
As Alex Russo noted, NEA’s lobbyist/wonk Joel Packer now has a blog… or, rather, transcripts of a podcast series (which doesn’t yet have its own feed, from what I can tell). Since the NEA’s group blog on NCLB has been on hiatus since February, I’m glad to see that Packer’s becoming active here. On the […]
Possible boondoggle in broadband build-out?
By Sherman Dorn on June 1, 2008
There’s something possibly important but important to check in the Educause podcast of a May 8 speech by John Windhausen, who runs the Telepoly website. To put his argument briefly, he is convinced that the U.S. will run out of broadband capacity, and he argues for a “national broadband policy” to expand the broadband infrastructure, […]
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