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...fans of students’ cell phones, but one Harvard economics professor has embraced them as a possible incentive rather than a distraction. At a lecture on Oct. 10, Professor Roland G. Fryer Jr. told students in Economics 1816 “Race in America” about a plan he is working on that would reward high-performing public school students with cell phones and cell phone minutes, according to multiple students in the class who asked not to be named because Fryer stressed the plan’s confidentiality to them. The project is part of an initiative...
...thinking. "We know that the strategic thinking of our enemies is long-term. But public discourse in the U.K. works to a much shorter timescale, whether the electoral cycle or the media deadline. We cannot view this challenge in such timescales. If we only react tactically while our enemies plan strategically, we shall be hard put to win this," he said...
...posturing, by intimidating investment banks, shaking down corporations, and guilt-tripping college administrators, bode extremely ill for our politics.Political solutions, no matter how uncontroversial or widely supported, can never be flawless and exact. The law of unintended consequences, in so complex a subject as human beings, ensures that no plan will be foolproof. Such a realization should not force us subsequently to withhold our moral outrage against the Darfur atrocities. But to recognize the abomination is not to discover the cure. Surely, the intricate market mechanisms, for which the Darfur petitioners think they have fully accounted, will not operate...
Under the controlled-choice plan, parents write down their top choices among the district’s 12 primary schools. Rather than assign students to schools by neighborhood, the district balances parent preferences with socioeconomic characteristics to determine which school each child will attend...
While no candidates have run on a platform of repealing or significantly weakening the controlled-choice plan, it’s an open question what changes will be made to it in the future...