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Category Archives: Education
Food so Tasty that it’s Unfair
Former President of Chile Ricardo Lagos recently asserted: A society that is built on neoliberal economic ideas will indeed foster GDP growth and innovation. But unless it is complemented with public policy aimed at promoting equality, a free-market society will … Continue reading
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Laptops for Children in Peru and Uruguay
The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project is targeting Peru and Uruguay. Peru’s distribution of more than 800,000 low-cost laptop computers children across the country easily ranks as one of the world’s most ambitious efforts to leverage digital technology in … Continue reading
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Will Finland Bail Out Nokia?
The Wall Street Cheat Sheet asks, Does Nokia Need a Bailout? The company is as important to the Finnish economy as the big banks are to the economies of Europe and the USA, and the Finnish government participates in the … Continue reading
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Software Legal Angels of Creative Destruction
Kenneth Anderson of the Volokh Conspiracy discusses the automation of boring legal tasks, spurred by a judge allowing the “use of predictive coding, a computer-assisted document review that turns much of the legal grunt work currently done by underemployed attorneys … Continue reading
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What Professors Refuse to Teach in Engineering and Business Schools
Engineering and business schools are a waste not only because they squander the time and money of students on subjects with little or no value, but also because they refuse to allow students access to essential knowledge necessary. Venkatesh Rao … Continue reading
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Are Apprenticeships Better than College?
Tom Clement, Senior Development Manager at Serena Software, earned a math degree, completed law school, and quit his legal career to learn C programming and a new career. Was his 7 years of schooling wasted? He suspects so because there … Continue reading
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Learn Spanish with the Rolling Stones
Mary and I went to see and hear Satisfaction, a Rolling Stones tribute band, at Casino Arizona. The band plays great songs in small theaters and we had a fun time. The Stones wrote their best music during the Mick … Continue reading
The Confession of a College Professor
George Mason University economics professor Brian Caplan, author of The Myth of the Rational Voter, confessed today that he teaches his students little that they can use in the Real World: I’ve been in school for the last 35 years … Continue reading
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How Google Sells to Schools
Mary and I attended a talk last week delivered by Jaime Casap, Education Evangelist at Google. Although most of audience probably enjoyed the presentation, I was disappointed because he spoke much more about the business culture at Google than about … Continue reading
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Should David Karp Have Dropped Out of School?
David Karp dropped out of school at age 15 and few years later became the founder and CEO of the microblogging site Tumblr. According to Wikipedia: A microblog differs from a traditional blog in that its content is typically smaller … Continue reading
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