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Will “Race to the Top” Money Talk Loud Enough to Drown Out Union Complaints?
Capital Ideas
8.19.2009
On July 24, President Obama laid out a plan for incentive-based education reform in a speech at the United States Department of Education. The incentives come in the form of $4 billion in federal “Race to the Top” money up for grabs by schools as part of his Economic Recovery Act. To get this money, states such as California may have to make some changes.
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Climate Modeling is Far From a Precise Science
Environmental Notes
By: Amy Kaleita, Ph.D
8.18.2009
A recent study of paleoclimate, the results of which appear in the August issue of Nature Geoscience, finds that today’s climate models do not accurately predict the most similar previous episode of climate warming in the geologic record. While this should not cast doubt on the value of climate models in tools to analyze drivers and projections of climate change, the study does point out that our understanding of climate dynamics remains imperfect.
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Will a California-Style Texting Ban Make the Nation Safer?
Capital Ideas
By: Daniel R. Ballon, Ph.D
8.5.2009
Four Senate Democrats last week introduced the Avoiding Life-Endangering and Reckless Texting by Drivers (ALERT) which bans text messaging while driving in all 50 states. Lead sponsor Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) believes that “drivers will finally be held responsible for dangerous behavior that puts the public at risk.”
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The Gender Gap in Happiness
Contrarian
By: Sally C. Pipes
8.4.2009
“By many objective measures the lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years, yet we show that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women’s happiness had declined both absolutely and relative to men. . . These declines have continued and a new gender gap is emerging – one with higher subjective well-being for men.”
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