Category Archives: Education


So? Or who is the information economy candidate (or party)?

September 4, 2007 – 5:54 am

So, it is the day after labor day, and I am catching up on the news, including some big labor endorsement news from John Edwards, via Marc Ambinder:

In Pittsburgh this morning, ex-Sen. John Edwards will proudly receive the endorsement of the United Steelworkers and the United Mineworkers of America, giving him the largest bloc of […]

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Keeping educated foreigners

May 23, 2007 – 6:16 am

Thomas Friedman (Times $elect) attended a graduation at Rensselaer Polytech. He noticed something:
The reason I had to laugh was because it seemed like every one of the newly minted Ph.D.’s at Rensselaer was foreign born. For a moment, as the foreign names kept coming — “Hong Lu, Xu Xie, Tao Yuan, Fu Tang” — I […]

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Will Romney’s education flip-flop hurt him?

May 17, 2007 – 7:46 am

During the debate, Mitt Romney was asked:

MR. WALLACE: Governor Romney, during this campaign, you have been criticized — and again tonight you’ve been criticized — for changing your position on some issues. You say that it’s a part of learning from experience. Can you point to an area in which your learning from experience led […]

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