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Category Archives: Education
Deflating the Student Loan Bubble with Better Risk Management
The student loan market is broken again: too much student debt, too many defaults, and large write-offs pending as a result of income contingent repayment. Not that it was ever fixed, but it’s gonna blow again to hemorrhage real costs … Continue reading
Posted in Congress, Education
Tagged cohort default rate, default, income contingent repayment, student loan bubble, student loans
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Not Random Violence, but the Consequence of Ideas
Saturday, we saw a number of news reports on the interwebs about the murder of Delbert Belton, who fought at Okinawa, allegedly by two teenaged thugs. From these reports, we learned that robbery is bad, murder is bad, elderly combat … Continue reading
A Turn for DeWurst, an alternative to the state of education in America
One of the personally most important books that I have read is Sydney Kendall’s novel A Turn for DeWurst. I read it with my youngest daughter; its theme, plot, and character helped establish a solid foundation for real fact based … Continue reading
Posted in Education
Tagged A Turn for DeWurst, education, education reform, privatization, Sydney Kendall
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Cargo Cult Education Reform in Public Schools
One theme that I find in reading about innovation in education is the inability of public schools to scale promising solutions that demonstrate results in small scale tests. Reading Joshua M Dunn’s Complex Justice: The Case of Missouri v. Jenkins, … Continue reading