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| MOTHER JONES | March 4, 2011 | THIS WEEK IN THE BLOGOSPHERE Building Better Kids We are obsessed with education in America. We are obsessed, in particular, with the notion that our schools are failing and have to be fixed. We need to test kids. We need to identify and fire bad teachers. We need merit pay. We need charter schools. We are all waiting for Superman. Philanthropists and the federal government spend billions of dollars per year on programs to promote better schools. James Heckman doesn't quite say that this is all a waste of money. But he comes close. In a new essay summarizing his recent work on skill formation in children, he says the chart below tells you most of what you need to know about educating our kids: [READ MORE] POLITICS A Day Without a Mexican Texas state Rep. Debbie "Terror Babies" Riddle wants to make it a serious crime to hire an illegal immigrant—except for one remarkable exception: [READ MORE] ECONOMICS What the People Really Want A new NBC/WSJ poll tells us that Democrats, if they could manage to agree on a halfway coherent message, most likely hold all the cards in a budget showdown: [READ MORE] MORE FROM MOJO Hijab and the American Teen The last time she was called a terrorist, Eman was drinking coffee in a to-go cup and waiting for the train at the Powell Street BART Station in San Francisco. It was rush hour, and dozens of morning commuters stood near the Mission High School senior: [READ MORE] ADVERTISEMENT Small ads, big reach!
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|  CATS Hop on Pop The latest cat craze at the Drum homestead: piling on top of Kevin right after dinner time.[READ MORE] 
Read Kevin's Blog MOST POPULAR KEVIN'S MOST ACTIVE DISCUSSION Huckabee and the Birthers Huckabee wants to appear sane, so he can't be a birther. But he probably doesn't want to lose the birther vote either, since a big part of his base believes the birther conspiracy. So how does he explain not believing it? [READ MORE] 
QUOTE OF THE WEEK: Huckabee on health care: [READ MORE] CHART OF THE WEEK: How long do Americans wait to see a doctor? [READ MORE] Follow Kevin Drum on Twitter |
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