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Tag Archives: policy
Deregulation and innovation in higher education
Here’s an article in today’s (7/31/18) Inside Higher Ed about Education Secretary DeVos’s push to deregulate and innovate in higher education. I’m pretty sure that deregulating for-profit education is a bad idea which has already failed spectacularly and repeatedly. But … Continue reading
Lessons I’ve learned the hard way #29
Politicians often make the mistake of believing that their constituents agree with their positions, when they got themselves elected largely by convincing enough voters that their opponents are worse than they are.
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Tagged observations about society, policy, politics
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Lessons I’ve learned the hard way #8
Averages don’t tell the whole story. As a friend once pointed out, if you picture a man with one foot in a bucket of ice water and the other in a campfire, on average, he’s comfortable.